Borderline with Gary Borders

Friday at 7:35 a.m.

Each week Gary will offer up a variety of observations and personal experience is a highly engaging commentary from East Texas.

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7:39am

Fri February 22, 2013
Commentary

Gary Borders: Winter yard work in Piney Woods still intense

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Gary Borders has a bird's eye view of the yard work he faces during the winter.

The trees and shrubs are doing just fine at commentator Gary Borders' home. So that means he's been doing some heavy-duty winter yard maintenance, ably assisted by one powerful leaf blower and a handy rake.

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7:34am

Fri February 15, 2013
Commentary

Gary Borders: On finding his soulmate through a newspaper column

Commentator Gary Borders shares a heartfelt, personal story about one of his newspaper columns that had a life changing effect.

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7:35am

Fri February 8, 2013
Commentary

Gary Borders: Is cell phone etiquette dead?

Commentator Gary Borders finds cell phone use guidelines in a seemingly unlikely place: the phlebotomist's chair. He inquires whether people actually talk on their phone while being stuck by a needle.

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7:35am

Fri February 1, 2013
Commentary

Gary Borders: On covering the Columbia disaster, the local angle

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Two National Guardsmen stand over a piece of the Columbia Shuttle that landed in downtown Nacogdoches on Feb. 1, 2003.

Commentator Gary Borders recalls the fateful day when the Space Shuttle Columbia rained down over East Texas.

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9:02am

Fri January 25, 2013
Commentary

Gary Borders: On meetings with Monk Willis

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The late Monk Willis spends time with his friend, Gary Borders.

Commentator Gary Borders pens a tribute to his late friend Monk Willis, a Longview businessman, civic leader and adviser to President Lyndon Johnson.

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