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SAN ANGELO, Texas (AP) — In 1971, Roger Allen was teaching art at San Angelo Central High School and looking for a piece of property where he could live cheaply, make pottery and not worry about his studio being torn down by landlords with development dreams. The Houston Chronicle reports what he found after a year or so of looking was a weed-choked 3-acre plot on the nondescript northeastern edge of town. The property, including nine dilapidated, junk-filled buildings, had been a poultry-processing operation before the big boys, Pilgrim's P...
LA GRANGE, Texas (AP) — Ask the delicate question in this pleasant little town on the banks of the Colorado, and, depending on who's answering, you'd think that marvelous Marvin Zindler himself, blue eye-shades and all, had risen from the grave and swaggered over, yet again, from Houston. Here's the question: Should Fayette County commemorate the Chicken Ranch — aka "the best little whorehouse in Texas" — with a state historical marker? The Houston Chronicle (http://bit.ly/2eZU7mY) reports the marker proposal has roiled residents for the past...
SALT FLAT, Texas (AP) — "Don't even think of trying to drive out on those salt flats," Shirley Richardson said as she stood outside the Salt Flat Cafe and bus stop. Shirley's grandparents opened the cafe in 1929 in what's now a desolate ghost town near the base of the spectacular Guadalupe Mountains. She had to close it eight months ago after she fell and broke her knee, wrist, ribs and shoulder while chasing after a dog that had run out on the highway with a butane truck bearing down. The salt flats cover a portion of her family's ranch, five...
