For photos, click on the links below Shiner Rising Star Round 2 got off to a good start with two great bands vying to move on into the finals. Sponsoring station KHYI officials asked Buffalo Ruckus to compete again, after the Brianna Fletcher band decided not to continue in the competition. Also competing Thursday night […]
For more photos, click on the links below. It was shorter than most weeks of this year’s Shiner Rising Star, Thursday night’s Week 8 contest at Love & War in Texas, Grapevine; but the music was just as sweet as every other night. (Nov. 25, 2014) It was also the third time this year that […]
Click on links at the end of this short review for photos of each band. Three bands brought fans and made new ones when they played in the Shiner Rising Star competition at The Rustic Thursday, (Sept. 18, 2014). It was Round 1, Week 7 of the yearly Shiner Rising Star contest, sponsored by radio […]
Technical difficulties (yeah, really) prevented this reporter from reporting on what was said and done at this week (Sept. 11) Shiner Rising Star. However, it was done well, by both bands (the third band, led by Jud Block, had to cancel out at the last minute), The LDJ Band and the Derek Anthony Band. Juding this […]
Now on the downhill side of Round 1, a fifth band, Cole Risner Band, has learned it will be advancing into Round 2 of the 2014 Shiner Rising Star contest. Cole and his band, Chris Norwood on lead guitar, Mark Oswalt on bass, and Cory Phifer on drums, met head to head with Buffalo Ruckus […]
By Mary Jane Farmer, for Van Alstyne News, Scene In Town, Photos courtesy of Van Alstyne Police A two-vehicle crash Wednesday evening (July 20) caused one car to go up in flames and the driver of the second car to go to jail on numerous felony charges. Van Alstyne Police Lt. Steven Hayslip said the […]
By Mary Jane Farmer for the Van Alstyne News/Scene in Town Van Alstyne Police answered 1,072 calls for service between May 25 and June 8, reported Police Lt. Steve Hayslip. Of these, they made numerous arrests. Arrests May 16 — A woman and her former husband, both from Crowley, Texas, were driving south on U.S. […]
April is Child Abuse Awareness & Prevention Month
By Mary Jane Farmer, for the Van Alstyne News, Scene In Town NOTE: Having been both a licensed foster care provider and a Court Appointed Special Advocate for children, this reporter has seen multiple horrifying cases of child abuse and how it affects the victims. This subject holds near and dear to my heart! This […]
This is a feature I wrote in 2007 and, crazily, found it on my My Space somehow. It also was printed on the Rockabilly Hall of Fame’s Website of the same name. Roy Head was inducted into the Rockabilly Hall of Fame that year. I am excited to be able to include it now here […]
Van Alstyne is Autumn Town, too!
Story and photos by Mary Jane Farmer, Blog style, not reporting style. More photos on link at bottom, and more will be added on future Sunday drives, so please feel free to check back throughout October and November. Sundays are made for driving around, slowly, and looking at things one misses when moving so fast. […]
Photography is… No. 2 stimulates imagination
C\ Click here, on this link, to see a few more of my “challenge” photos. No. 2 — Photography requires imagination Each year, lately, I have gone on my own photographic journey, calling it my “Challenge.” I’ll pick a topic and do what I can to photograph items, people, […]
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