It was a vision that was a long time coming, but ground was last Tuesday on a new Texas Forest Service office at 100 Business Court near the airport. Officials talked about how it will help fire-fighting deployments given its central location in the state. Joining for the ceremony and a history of the project were, from left, Randall Fuchs, task force coordinator; Drew Liddell, fire coordinator; Al Davis, director of the Texas A&M Forest Service; Jacob Donellan, division director of field operations; Daniel Jones, county judge; Paul Hannemann, TFS incident response coordinator; Donnie Schuch, former Pct. 4 Commissioner; Roger Hansen, former airport manager; Mark Stroeher, former county judge; Greg Snelgrove, former airport manager; Tony Lombardi, current airport manager. — Standard-Radio Post/Ken Esten Cooke