By Tara Bozick, Victoria Advocate, Texas Oct. 29--Students wait excitedly for the tag number of their captured monarch butterfly to be called, watching as the monarch is released back to nature.

By Louise Popplewell, Victoria Advocate, Texas Jul. 6--TIVOLI -- The Guadalupe River began overflowing its banks early Thursday morning, adding to the flooding in a subdivision upriver from state Highway 35 at the Calhoun-Refugio county line.

By Victoria Advocate, Texas Jul. 4--PORT LAVACA -- Folks living along the banks of the Guadalupe River above state Highway 35 at the Calhoun-Refugio county line are not given orders to evacuate when high waters threaten. "We watch, and we give them warnings," said Calhoun County Sheriff B.B.

By Victoria Advocate, Texas Feb. 1--REFUGIO -- The Refugio school district will hold a community meeting from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. today to hear what characteristics the public wants in the next superintendent.

By Victoria Advocate, Texas Dec. 2--TIVOLI -- One student was seriously injured and 20 others suffered minor injuries when a Waelder school bus missed a curve, left the roadway and hit a concrete culvert near Tivoli around 6 p.m. Friday.