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Homeless Man Gets to Keep $77K He Found in Bastrop

Timothy Yost has a chance to turn his life around after finding the money while washing his feet along the bank of the Colorado River.

June 16, 2012 | by Michael Hoinski
Nikki Gray, Firefighter
“Fire is so destructive that many landowners don’t realize it can sometimes do good on their property.”
August 21, 2013 | by | Working Life
Into the Wild
Out of more than half a million acres of state parks and natural areas, we’ve chosen the ten best trips—where to camp, what to do, and what to look for when you head to the nearest town
June 1, 2011 | by Charlie Llewellin | State Parks
Texas 2011: The Year in Photos

Ten pictures of the moments and themes that defined this year. 

December 30, 2011 | by Sonia Smith
Texas Trees Hit Hard By Drought In 2011

More than 300 million trees died in Texas in 2011 due to extreme drought conditions

September 28, 2012 | by Ross Dubois
The Drop Everything List
The Kashmere Stage Band, Art From the Ashes, the Dead Sea Scrolls & the Bible, and a Rolling Roadshow on the banks of the Guadalupe . . .
July 1, 2012 | by Michael Hoinski | Web Exclusive
Trial by Fire
It will be remembered as the year of smoke and devastation, as drought-fueled flames wreaked unprecedented havoc across Texas, from Bastrop County to Possum Kingdom. A photographic and oral history of the 2011 wildfires.
December 1, 2011 | Oral History
Rick Perry, Was This Your Year?

On August 25, pundits declared Rick Perry's to be the "inevitable" GOP candidate. Now he's polling fifth. Part two of the timeline chronicling how it got from there to here.

December 30, 2011 | by Jason Cohen
Joe Arellano, Meteorologist
January 1, 2012 | by Sonia Smith | Working Life
Lights, Camera, Carthage!
Nearly fifteen years after Richard Linklater and I started talking about turning a TEXAS MONTHLY story into a major motion picture, it’s finally hitting the big screen, with a little help from Jack Black, Matthew McConaughey, Shirley MacLaine—and a seventy-year-old retired hairdresser from Rusk named Kay Baby Epperson.
May 1, 2012 | by Skip Hollandsworth | Film

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