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Today's riddle: What has a cap but no head? 🤔 (Answer below!)
• Victoria bake sale raises funds for local cancer patients (crossroadstoday.com) — A bake sale at DeTar Navarro in Victoria raised money Friday for the Crossroads Guardians of Hope, which supports local cancer patients with financial and emotional assistance. Volunteers and staff baked cookies, cakes, and other treats, quickly surpassing last year's $900 total. Organizers say the community's generosity directly helps neighbors battling cancer here in the Crossroads.
• 2026 Crossroads Football Live scores: Week 6 (crossroadstoday.com) — Fans in Victoria can track tonight's Week 6 high school football action in real time, including games featuring Victoria East, Victoria West, and the Victoria Gators. The scoreboard updates scores from across the Crossroads, letting you follow local rivals and nearby small-town teams as their Friday night matchups unfold.
• Power play: Texas counties seek right to regulate burgeoning data centers (austinfreepress.org) — Victoria County Judge Ben Zeller is pushing state lawmakers to give counties more power to manage large industrial projects like data centers, citing concerns over water, energy, and noise impacts. His testimony joins a broader statewide effort by county officials seeking tools such as buffer zones, water-impact statements, and mandatory public hearings as data centers spread into rural Texas.
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