HIGHLAND LAKES — There are as many reasons for running in a marathon as there are runners themselves. When 2001 Burnet High School graduate Elias Salinas Jr. laces up his shoes June 6 in San Diego, Calif., for the Rock ’n’ Roll Half Marathon, it will be personal.
MARBLE FALLS — Artist Pokey Park learned how to draw and carve while she was a child growing up in Georgia along the eastern shore. Those early days seem to have paid off.