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The continuing federal shutdown means food benefits provided to 3.5 million Texans could be cut off in November, The Texas Tribune reported. Of those affected, nearly half are children.“ SNAP has funding available for benefits and operations through the month of October,” according to a letter written by the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food and Nutrition Service to state agencies. “However, if the current lapse in appropriations continues, there will be insufficient funds to pay full November SNAP benefits for approximately 42 million individuals across the nation.” More than $614 million is distributed monthly in Texas to recipients.Currently, other assistance programs such as Medicaid and the Children Health Insurance Program, or CHIP, are not affected by the shutdown, which is in its fourth week.

As part of Texas Archeology Month in Milam County, members of the Milam County Historical Commission and the El Camino Real de los Tejas National Historic Trail Association (El-CaT) presented a lesson on early archaeology and frontiersman life to Rockdale Elementary fourth-grade students on Monday, Oct. 27.

What better time than Halloween to delve into the otherworldly legends surrounding Texas’ most sacred site! If only a fraction of the many eyewitness accounts and second-hand reports contain a particle of truth, the Alamo has to be the most haunted place in the Lone Star State.