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COLLEGE STATION — As parents prepare to send out their little ghosts and goblins for a busy night of Halloween fun, are they certain they have properly equipped them for a safe return home? Coordinated Campaign Safe and Sober suggests all parents accompany their children as they go trick or treating. National Highway Traffic Safety…

COLLEGE STATION–Halloween is creeping up which means it’s time to get the costumes out. This year’s most popular costumes include characters from the Goosebumps series, Cinderella and Toy Story. “The Hunchback of Notre Dame costumes are a hot seller this year,” said Nathan Kovach, merchandise team leader for Target Stores. Kovach said that in addition…

COLLEGE STATION — Pumpkins of all sizes have started rolling into grocery stores and vegetable stands from the Texas High Plains, the beginning of an avalanche of the popular orange gourds that won’t stop until just before Halloween. “What we have here is a truly charismatic vegetable,” said Dr. Roland Roberts, a vegetable specialist with…

COLLEGE STATION– Texas Agricultural Extension Service agents from 130 counties have received instructor training to conduct food protection management programs to further increase food safety awareness in the more than 87,000 food service operations in Texas. Georgia Lockridge, director of the food industry training division of the Institute of Food Science and Engineering, said, “There’s…

COLLEGE STATION — The shrimping industry is critically suffering this year due to the late winter and the drought of 1996. Consumers should not be surprised if the price of shrimp rises during the coming months, according to the laboratory director of National Marine Fisheries. “Although the prices aren’t relatively low now, the shortage later…