Near the town of Lone Pine, we stopped to gaze at the poignantly mislabeled Owens Lake, a 100-square-mile salt flat that resembles nothing so much as a gargantuan lunar crater.

Although given with cautious optimism, her report indicated, "With losing the tax revenue of the Old Lone Star District, the State is pretty much going to make up the difference.

Previous Local Legends have included Joe Lee Johnson, The Domino Players, Thomas Oatts and the Lone Star Bakery. The 2012 Local Legends were Round Rock Cheese Factory Manager Elmer A. Cottrell, pioneer Dr.

7:30am: Local vendor stops by the store to drop off bagel samples for the bakery. We'll continue evaluating products -- the mix is always changing.

Lone Star Bakery (also known as Round Rock Donuts) was a well-deserving winner one year. Local Legends run the gamut, from days long gone to more recent times.

Lucille's Smokehouse Bar-B-Que, 6628 Lone Tree Blvd., Rocklin; (916) 780-7427; www.lucillesbbq.com: Yeah, it's a chain, but the Southern-accented concept is cool - Ball canning jars filled with sweet tea, cornbread, fluffy biscuits with apple butter ...

The Sandtrap: 1510 Hawkins inside the Lone Star Golf Club, $$, lonestargolfclub.net/sandtrap, 590-8116. Nice variety of burgers, sandwiches and ..... Gussie's Tamales & Bakery: 2200 N. Piedras, $$, 566-8209. Fine tamales. On the wall are listings for ...

Muska will be under another kind of pressure July 6, when he throws out the ceremonial first pitch at West Night at the Rangers Ballpark in Arlington as the Rangers take on the Houston Astros in the Lone Star Series. �I'm just going to try not to ...

There are places in Texas that resemble the Santa Ynez Valley, but a Californian looking at this landscape isn't going to think of the Lone Star State. Greece ... The utopian community of the 1870s is now famous for Danish tourist novelties and good ...

And what about �Lone Ranger� star Armie Hammer and his beauteous wife Elizabeth Chambers who, last year, opened Bird Bakery in Alamo Heights? As for Heat fans, those celebs, according to online reports, are too many to count: Gloria Estefan, Jimmy ...