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The man listed as number one on the Top 10 Texas Most Wanted Sex Offenders turned himself in at the Montague County Sheriff’s Office Friday.
Sheriff Paul Cunningham said Randy Jay Hofstetter, 28, turned himself in about 11 a.m. July 18. It appears the action came at the urging of Hofstetter’s grandmother who resides in Montague and came to the sheriff’s office with her grandson.
Hofstetter, who hails from Fort Worth, was wanted for warrants for failure to register as a sex offender, parole violation for an original offense of delivery of meth; probation violation for original offense, aggravated sexual assault of a child. The Department of Public Safety Top 10 webpage listed the subject as “armed and dangerous.”
Hofstetter was added to the Texas Top 10 on July 8 and his arrest included a reward of up to $5,000 for specific information resulting in his arrest. The site states that Hofstetter was convicted on three counts of aggravated sexual assault of a child for incidents in Hopkins County involving an eight-year-old girl. He received 10 years probation and had to register quarterly for life as a sex offender. The warrants were issued in mid-January.
(Above: Friends around the campfire help On The Table writer Suzanne Storey to flesh out an idea for her column. Photo by Suzanne Storey.)
I’ve discovered if you want to interrupt a perfectly lovely evening around a campfire, just announce to your friends that you have a newspaper deadline and absolutely no idea what to write about.
That’s exactly what I did on a recent Saturday night.
It was one of those rare October evenings in North Texas when the weather finally seemed to understand what season it was supposed to be. The temperature had dipped into the 50s, the stars were brilliant, and there wasn’t enough wind to stir a leaf.
Campfire weather had arrived. And, of course, football season was in full swing.
We got to talking about how much things have changed since we were kids.
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In case you haven’t noticed you have been living through an explosion of new varieties when it comes to hydrangeas. It’s been like a wonderful tsunami of shrubs that we could not have even dreamed about.
Today I looked at the Proven Winners online catalogue and there were 66 varieties.
Can you imagine how many there would be if you counted those from other producers too? So, this column will be like The Garden Guy ‘Pick Five’. These are five I am growing at my home that you need to know about.
As a kid I grew up in the Big Country of west Texas where the hydrangea was pretty much relegated to Mother’s Day gifts. I graduated from Texas A&M in 1981 and even then, the choices gardeners had was miniscule.
Read the full Garden Guy column in your Thursday Bowie News.
It is hard for me to imagine a more beautiful tall garden phlox than Luminary Sunset Coral. Tall garden phlox, also called summer phlox, is known botanically as Phlox paniculata.
Many of you can rejoice as Phlox paniculata is native to 36 states. It is considered perennial in zones 3-8.
We had no issues growing Phlox paniculata during my years as Director of University of Georgia’s Coastal Georgia Botanical Gardens in Savannah, GA which is zone 9.
Luminary Sunset Coral is receiving quite the honor as it has been chosen as Proven Winners 2027 ‘Perennial of the Year.’ I mentioned that in last week’s column as a wonderful partner with Heart to Heart, Bottle Rocket next year’s ‘Caladium of the Year.’
Read the full Garden Guy column in your Thursday Bowie News.
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