Brenda (Britton) and Brandes Gremmel will celebrate their 60th wedding anniversary on June 3. The couple was married on June 3, 1960, in Corpus Christi and have lived in Pettus since 1975. They have two children, Elizabeth Shelton DDS (Ben) and Greg Gremmel MD (Sabrina); and grandchildren, B…
BEEVILLE – The Beeville Art Museum is once again open, and what’s old is new again in a new exhibition of works by seven artists dedicated to sharing the power of hand embroidery in contemporary art.
BEEVILLE – Rising on the wings – or least that’s how it seemed from the ground when looking up at Cal Garcia, perched on his ladder and covered in paint, as he continued to outline a pair of colorful wings on the side of the a building at 300 W. Corpus Christi St. last week.
A caravan of cars helped Karen Knowlton celebrate her 63rd birthday April 23. The city’s first responders have been joining in these celebration parades throughout town since people cannot get out. Shown here holding up a happy birthday sign for Knowlton is Caden Cox.
St. Mary’s Academy Charter School staff got together on April 29 for a photo to send out to the students, forming a heart and saying: “You matter, and we miss you. We will be here when you get back. Stay safe!” The photo was also sent to Human Resource Manager Jeanene Jones as a token as she…
CORPUS CHRISTI – Since March the COVID-19 pandemic has shut down live music venues, festivals and concerts all around the world, effectively putting hundreds of thousands of musicians out of work. But out of the dire straits this unprecedented situation created arose a new way to experience …
BEEVILLE – An exhibition of paintings, drawings, prints and collages by Houston artist Leamon Green, exploring the complexities of migration and African American identity in an increasingly globalized world, opens to the public with tentative dates set for mid to late April at the Beeville A…
Main Street Manager Michelle Treviño and city worker Victor Ortiz put snake plants as well as some donated aloe in planter beds between Washington and Madison streets downtown on Wednesday, April 1. “We are going for drought-tolerant planters,” said Trevino, noting the lack of moisture in re…
BEEVILLE – Kacey Russell of Beeville, a student at A.C. Jones High School, participated in the 42nd Texas Conservation Awards Program, and her senior essay entry won 1st Place out of all the soil and water conservation district entries in South Texas. The subject of the essay was “Where woul…
“The Murmur of Bees,” by Mexican author Sofía Segovia, is a most appropriate book for the Pan American Round Table of BEEville to place in the Joe Barnhart BEE County Public Library in observance of this year’s April 14 Pan American Day.
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Juneteenth is especially important for my friend Paulette Boales Bailey, because her great-grandfather, Peter Boales, may have been the first enslaved person in this part of South Texas to learn about emancipation from Union soldiers in 1865.
BEEVILLE – Steve Barrera spent countless hours during his childhood bounding throughout the Beeville Boys & Girls Club.
BEEVILLE – What would make a Ph.D. candidate decide one day to pickup and leave from her home in Allentown, Pennsylvania, and drive to Seattle?
Bill Cude used to say that his life may have spanned the greatest changes in the history of mankind—he was born in the horse and buggy days and lived to see a man walking on the moon, as well as the arrival of the computer age. I am happy to remember my dad for this Father’s Day column.
The Bell is bouncing back from her injury, but the little imp is taking full advantage of our sympathy. She has been getting special food, going for car rides and a lot of being a lap dog. We do love our pup.
BEEVILLE – They are the class born in the wake of one of the America’s worst tragedies.
BEEVILLE – As things begin to open back up around the country, Beeville 4-Hers are getting in some much needed practice in the arena.
A bird flew into the bluebird house that we had erected on the west side of the vineyard. Oh, good! I thought. Both vineyard houses, east and west, had residents now. We would have a fine crop of bluebirds this summer. But something bothered me about the bird that had tucked into that westsi…
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