Gas Station becomes Chainsaw Massacre tourist site in Bastrop
Bastrop hosts The Gas Station tourist attraction reopened last month as a Chainsaw Massacre themed lunch spot with merchandise cabins and a pavilion. The owners Roy and Lisa Rose restored the building once used in the 1974 film and welcomed attendees including actor Edwin Neal and Ed Guinn at the grand opening.
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Texas turns feral hog surplus into pork and profits
Texas ranchers report feral hogs moving through a network of trapping stations and processing plants. Southern Wild Game converts live hogs into consumer pork with near zero waste, selling mainly to European markets. Rusty Spannagel notes high daily slaughter volumes, while Billy Higginbotham cites Texas as uniquely organized for feral hog management.
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Odessa Council weighs downtown master plan approval
Odessa City Council set for a 6 p.m. Tuesday vote at City Hall on approving a final downtown master plan defining boundaries along North Sam Houston Avenue Eighth Street North Hancock Avenue and Second Street The plan funded about 165000 for Gateway Planning Group aims to anchor a broader redevelopment including a 77 million hotel and conference center with groundbreaking planned for March plus related projects and leases.
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Houston man among three U.S. military members killed in Jordan
Wayne Dolcefino says 27 year old Jim Moriarty of Houston was one of three U.S. service members killed in a shooting outside a southern Jordan base during a training mission. Moriarty served three tours in the Army Special Forces and held a UT Austin economics degree. His family plans a memorial in about a week.
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