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Texas Coastal Expo returns to Moody Gardens
May 15, 2012(AUSTIN)—Celebrate World Oceans Day when the Texas Coastal Expo returns to Galveston's Moody Gardens from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, June 9. This free and family-friendly celebration of the Texas Coast - brought to you by the Texas General Land Office - is the biggest coastal expo in Texas. "Bring the kids...more
More than 7,300 volunteers haul 137 tons of trash off Texas beaches
May 01, 2012(AUSTIN)—Texas beaches may just be getting cleaner, according to reports from Adopt-A-Beach coordinators across the coast. The 26th Annual Texas General Land Office Adopt-A-Beach Spring Cleanup drew 7,369 volunteers to the Texas coast Saturday. But the good weather and the strong turnout...more
Bryce Seifert wins Trash Travels High School PSA contest
April 30, 2012(AUSTIN)—Dripping Springs High School junior Bryce Seifert's slapstick approach to delivering the message "trash travels" earned him top honors in the Trash Travels High School PSA contest. "Bryce's video is funny, but still effectively delivers a serious message that litter in Central Texas can w...more
VLB now offering $417,000 for home purchases, $100,000 for land
April 26, 2012(AUSTIN)—Texas veterans can now take advantage of the VLB's low-interest rate loans to borrow as much as $417,000 to buy a home and $100,000 to buy land. The Texas Veterans Land Board voted unanimously today to increase the home and land loan limits in the latest expansion of benefits under the le...more
Artwork wins Dallas fifth-grader Caribbean cruise
April 17, 2012(AUSTIN)—A sea turtle curiously approaches as mysterious hands pull a soda can and a six-pack ring from the surf. Colorful fish circle a tableau of trash left by beachgoers as a horseshoe crab scoots past, oblivious. Look closer and words appear on bracelets adorning the disembodied wrists, and the message ...more
Patterson Purples Up for Military Kids
April 09, 2012(AUSTIN)—The website more than 1.7 million veterans living in Texas rely on for information about their benefits - www.texasveterans.com - will go purple Friday, April 13 in a show of support for Texas Operation Military Kids. "The VLB will Purple Up! For Military Kids and we hope you wi...more
Supreme Court kills Texas tradition of open beaches on West Galveston
April 04, 2012(AUSTIN)—The Texas tradition of guaranteed public access to the beach died today for Galveston's West End with the Supreme Court reaffirming its prior ruling in favor of a California divorce attorney who bought rental properties on the beach. "It seems that the Open Beaches Act - at leas...more
More than 60,000 Easter eggs at Big Spring Veterans Home
April 04, 2012(AUSTIN)—The 9th Annual Community Easter Egg Hunt at Lamun-Lusk-Sanchez Texas State Veterans Home 9th Annual is set for 11 a.m. on Good Friday and kids of all ages are invited to join the fun. This week residents at the Big Spring home have stuffed more than 60,000 plastic eggs with cand...more
Adopt-A-Beach Spring Cleanup set for April 28
March 29, 2012(AUSTIN)—Thousands of volunteers across the state are making plans now to take part in the Adopt-A-Beach Spring Cleanup Saturday, April 28. Texas - home to the nation's first all-volunteer beach cleanup in 1986 - boasts one of the biggest all-volunteer beach cleanups in the wor...more
Adopt-A-Beach lesson plans now available for grades K-8
March 20, 2012(AUSTIN)—Texas educators know crafting a lesson plan both that is interesting and still covers the required Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills is no day at the beach. But a new set of lesson plans on the dangers of marine debris by the Adopt-A-Beach Program at the Texas General Land Office is su...more
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