Floral Design Certification

The following Floral Design students received their Texas State Florist Association Level 1 Knowledge-Based Certification. In order to pass this test they had to be familiar with a variety of terminology, skills, and plants that are commonly used in the floral industry.

271 awarded diplomas at VHS Class of 2021 commencement

Friends, family and wellwishers packed Pirate Stadium Friday evening as the Vidor High School Class of 2021 received their diplomas and bid adieu to Vidor High School and their classmates, gathering together for one last time.

DPS increases highway enforcement for Click It or Ticket, Memorial Day Weekend

The Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) wants to remind drivers to travel safely as we close out May and head into the Memorial Day holiday.

Rotary

Student of the Month Vidor Rotary Club's May Students of the Month were Stephen Malmberg, Mea Clubreth, Kaelee McCoy, and Lane Copeland. They are pictured with Rotary District 5910 Governor Becky Mason and Superintendent of Schools Dr. Jay Killgo.

Graduating in style

A pair of identical twins in Baton Rouge, LA are graduating at the top of their class this year from the Scotlandville Magnet High School in a very “classy” way -- with $24 million worth of scholarships from colleges and universities around the world.

It’s as easy as one, two, three for her

Eleven-year-old Sanaa Hiremath, who was diagnosed with autism when she was two years old, has set a world record for her ability to multiply very large numbers without pen and paper, calculators or any other such aid.

A rare bloom, indeed

It’s not often that one gets the opportunity to see an amorphophallus titanum in bloom and so it attracted a crowd in Alameda, CA when a corpus flower was on show there recently, says the Association of Mature American Citizens [AMAC].