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Bonnie Hawkins-Jordan uses puppets and mime to enhance the lessons she teaches as a tutor. The longtime educator is also a pastor of youth and children and is involved in theater in Cleburne and Fort Worth.

• Educating through the arts

  Her résumé is impressive. An educator, therapist, dancer, minister and actor, Bonnie Hawkins-Jordan seems the kind of person who might live in Hollywood. But she doesn’t. She lives in Cleburne, sharing her ministry with those around her any way she can.

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• Challenger seeks to oust Precinct 4 incumbent

  Johnson County Precinct 4 voters have a choice this year between re-electing incumbent Commissioner Don Beeson, or electing his challenger, Bart Basham.

  February 8, 2010

• Park and ride lot to be discussed

  Cleburne City Council members will vote Tuesday on P.E.T. Construction’s $171,704 bid to construct a park-and-ride lot at the Cletran location.

  February 8, 2010

• Pete Kendall: Home phonelessness more blessing than curse

  In a 1916 interview in the Chicago Tribune, the self-anointed World’s Greatest Newspaper, Henry Ford said, “History is more or less bunk. It’s tradition. We don’t want tradition. We want to live in the present, and the only history that is worth a tinker’s damn is the history we made today.”

  February 8, 2010

• Medina brings campaign to Cleburne

  Several hundred area residents attended a Saturday Burleson Tea Party rally held at Forrest Auto Group in Cleburne.

  February 8, 2010 1 Photo

Sports

Cleburne’s Aley Zachary (12) puts up a shot during the Lady Jackets’ 53-47 win over Waco High on Friday night at Yellow Jacket Gym.

• Lady Jackets set to close 16-4A play

  After putting an end to their two-year playoff drought on Friday, the Cleburne Lady Jackets still have one more regular season game before the postseason begins.

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• Zack Cunningham: Signing day brings the little and big schools together

  National Signing Day is an interesting period for high school students and collegiate athletes.

  February 8, 2010 1 Photo

• Lucky No. 400 for Marquart

  Cleburne head coach Mitzi Marquart said she wasn’t aware she was approaching the 400-career win mark when she walked into Yellow Jacket Gym on Friday night.

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• Lions pull away, 73-65

  The Cleburne Yellow Jackets were in control for three-and-a-half quarters against Waco High on Friday night at Yellow Jacket Gym, but the Lions outlasted the Jackets  in the final minutes to come away with a 73-65 win.

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• Jackets take down Joshua in shootout at home

  The Cleburne Yellow Jackets prevailed 4-3 in a shootout over the Joshua Owls after the teams ended regulation deadlocked at 1-1.

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Opinion

• Barney Maddox: Facts meaningless to socialists

  After reading Crank’s radioactive rant (“Kings X,” Jan. 31), it required mental effort trudging through the fog and underbrush of wild distortions to return to reality.

  February 8, 2010

• Scott Cain: The audacity of arrogance
• Don Newbury: More than a mentor
• Michael O'Connor: The man with the generic face
• Editorial: Time for a dispassionate look

Features / Living

• Larue Barnes: The innkeeper

  The Johnson County Christian Lodge is scheduled to have an official chamber of commerce ribbon cutting on March 1.

  January 25, 2010 1 Photo

• Monica Green: Are you addicted to Facebook games?
• Larue Barnes: The fire builder
• John Watson: Characters in action
• Monica Green: A bad case of dates

Obituaries

• Dr. Donald R. Birmingham

  February 8, 2010 1 Photo

• James A. “Jim” McKenzie
• Woody Walls Jr.
• Dan Stephens
• Danny Grafa