Texas A&M AgriLife Extension will present a mid-summer conference on “Cultivating School Gardens” for educators to prepare youth for healthy learning. The effort works as illustrated by an elementary school in Katy that has been providing students a hands-on gardening experience for eight years. Stacy Slater, Stephens Elementary School science teacher, said “Students are getting gardening experience and taking that home to their families. Several students have shared that they have started their own garden […]
Boy Scouts
Katy Boy Scout Troop Makes a Historic Find
By George Slaughter Boy Scouts from Katy have found and marked a historic West Texas hanging tree where, in the late 1800s, some cattle rustlers met their fate. The tree, part of a site that became known as Rustler’s Flat, is part of the Buffalo Trails Scout Ranch, near Fort Davis. In the late 19th Century, a group of cattle rustlers stole cattle, butchered it, and sold the meat to soldiers at the U.S. Army […]