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Paid apps for free or deeply discounted now readily available

Several months ago, I wrote about some of the online services that make available to users a “daily deal” of commercial PC and MAC software either for free or deeply discounted. Recently, SharewareOnSale.com offered, for very brief periods of time, name brand software from Norton, BitDefender, IObit and other well-known software publishers.

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Master Gardener Spring Plant Sale and Market Day

Master Gardener Donna Thompson, green house specialist, seeded and transplanted

If winter left your plants in a frozen mess, take heart! The Jefferson County Master Gardener Spring Plant Sale and Market Day is around the corner. Everything you need to get your garden glorious again will be offered. Our Master Gardeners have been celebrating spring with this very popular plant sale for as far back as 2007, according to Peggy Coleman of Texas Agri-Life. She adds that the event may even date back further than that.

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Ableson, Prye win big trout contest on Sabine and Calcasieu lakes

Trey Prye used a floating Fat Boy lure to catch this 7.13-pound trout while fish

Cold fronts continue to make trout fishing extremely tough to figure out on Sabine Lake. However, a few anglers willing to grind it out are finding heavy trout on both Sabine and Calcasieu. During the Dailey’s Hunt N Fish big trout contest held on both Sabine and Calcasieu lakes last Sunday, March 23, the heaviest trout came from Louisiana.

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Volkswagen’s stylish midsize Passat

The 2014 Volkswagen Passat is a mid-size sedan offering best-in-class rear-seat legroom and trunk space to match.

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Divergent: Teen set takes break from fur and fangs in latest dystopian film

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I’ll take the dystopian future over fur and fangs any day. That is to say I was never a fan of the “Twilight” movies based on the best-selling young adult novels. Then along came “Hunger Games,” and so far those have been more inter­esting. Now on its heels comes another series of movie-ready young adult nov­els, beginning with “Divergent,” from writer Veronica Roth.

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