Joshua Ray Walker.
Chris Bourke
Three minutes into his haunting song “Voices,” the singer Joshua Ray Walker summons an astonishing falsetto from somewhere deep within his diaphragm. As his voice rings out, Walker’s face contorts into a grimace, as if reaching these notes takes a little bit out of him, physically, each time. Even fellow musicians aren’t always prepared for the experience of watching Walker perform live. “I just stood in front of the stage, let that voice wash over me, and I thought, ‘Oh my god,’” says Rhett Miller, the lead singer of the Old 97’s, of the first time he saw Walker sing.
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Arlen Butler is shown here in 2013 during a visit to the Herald-Banner. Services are pending for Butler, one of the last remaining World War II veterans in Hunt County.
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Commander Venus Emerson, right, held the cake and Arlen Jay Butler blew out the candles as Butler was honored by the VFW Post 4011Â in Greenville on his 100th birthday in September 2020.
Brad Kellar | Herald-Banner
Services were pending with Lynch Funeral Service Wednesday morning for Arlen Jay Butler, 100, who resided in the Cash community. Butler was reported to have died April 14.
Butler was honored by the VFW Post 4011 in Greenville on his 100th birthday in September 2020.
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Commander Venus Emerson, right, held the cake and Arlen Jay Butler blew out the candles as Butler was honored by the VFW Post 4011Â in Greenville on his 100th birthday in September 2020. Members of the post also offered 100 birthday cards and Butler was scheduled to receive a phone call from President Donald Trump, congratulating him on his birthday and for being one of the oldest surviving wounded veterans of World War II.
Brad Kellar | Herald-Banner
One of the few remaining World War II veterans in Hunt County and one of the oldest in the United States has passed away.
Services are pending for Arlen Jay Butler, 100, who resided in the Cash community just south of Greenville. Butler was reported to have died Monday.
What Texas kids need to know in order to become responsible citizens is up for debate.
After Gov. Greg Abbott named strengthening civics education as one of his priorities for the legislative session, lawmakers on both sides of the aisle filed bills with that goal in mind.
But some advocacy groups are concerned that the issue could become too politicized, potentially stymieing progress in Austin.
“Teachers want this. Parents want this. Concerned citizens want this,” said Wendy May-Dreyer, chair of the Texas Civic Education Coalition. “It doesn’t need to become a culture war.”
Texas GOP Chairman Allen West recently decried several of the civics education bills, saying in a statement that the Legislature is facing an “onslaught of … legislation that advances Critical Race Theory from a progressive socialist standpoint” and would “open the doors to left-wing activism among our children.”
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