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AUSTIN — Good news for hunters! Texas Parks and Wildlife Department (TPWD) biologists anticipate an exceptional whitetailed deer season this fall. The 2024-25 archery-only season kicks off Sept. 28 and hunters should expect to have good harvest numbers and opportunities for quality bucks.

AUSTIN - Texas Parks and Wildlife Department (TPWD)’s Habitat and Angler Access Program (HAAP) supplies funding for projects that develop and increase shoreline and bank fishing access as well as restore and enhance fish habitat in Texas’ public inland waters.

Lane Hogan places second overall in Paragould, Ark. The defending national champion Blinn College livestock judging team placed third at the Top Notch Collegiate Swine Judging Contest, its first outing of the 2024-25 season.

Presentation is part of Blinn’s Communication Studies Speaker Series Bryan Carlisle, Blinn College District Director of Safety and Risk Management will present “Crisis Communications: A Discussion with Blinn’s Future Communications Professionals” on Wednesday, Oct. 2, at 11 a.m. as part of Blinn’s Communication Studies Speaker Series.

Students from last two classes pass National Council Licensure Examination All 17 recent graduates of the Blinn College Vocational Nursing Program’s traditional and blended tracks have passed the national licensing exam.

Austin County Sheriff's Office would like to highlight the stellar women in law enforcement for National Policewomen's Day. Investigator V. Minyard has been with ACSO 14 years and has filled many roles. She is currently working Criminal Investigations and is a new member of the Regional Hostage Negotiation Team.

( Editor’s note: The following story was cut off and didn’t run in its entirely in last week’s issue of The Sealy News. Here is the complete story.

The Bible skeptic Michael, that we have been engaged with for many weeks, asks a very important question: “Isn’t all religion just a mind game?” After all, it was the German philosopher Karl Marx who famously said; “Religion is the opium of the people. It is the sign of the oppressed creature, the heart of the heartless world, and the soul of the soulless condition.” No doubt, critics of religion have long argued that it is a mind game we play with ourselves to soothe a fearful soul in a hostile world. The survival of the fittest is surely selected for those who have the best coping mechanisms, right? No doubt, as soon as prehistoric men evolved enough to realize that everyone dies, his mind then evolved to find a resolution. Just so happened, religion fit the bill. Darwin himself considered there to be “an evolutionary derivation of mind and morality” as a product of natural selection. In other words, Darwin thought belief in God to be just a mind game as well. Very well then, let us begin once again from the common ground of modern science (twenty- first century science, that is).

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