Just got real

The choices faced by Rockdale residents in getting a new health care facility—a first-rate clinic affiliated with St. Joseph’s in Bryan—just got real. On Monday the Rockdale Hospital Board proposed a 16.9-cent property tax to fund the new clinic.

Fate’s ‘East Side Cast of Characters’

This week I’m again turning the column over to the great Fate Arnwine, a resident of upstate New York and a graduate of our Aycock High School. He sends me reminiscences of Rockdale in the 1950s and I think you will really enjoy this one. I sure did.

Senior Expo continues vendors search

Vendors are being sought for the Milam County Triad Senior Expo, set for 8 a.m. to 12-noon Oct. 16 at the Rockdale KC Hall. A guide will be distributed with a multitude of resources. Vendor fees will include advertisement in the resource guide. Fees include: • Quarter page and booth space, $55.

Looking back

100 YEARS AGO.... Lawless Green, 20, son of Cameron First National Bank President A. A. Green, died in a plane crash in Cameron. The younger Green was a passenger in a plane operated by a barnstorming pilot who had already taken several Cameron residents up that day.

‘You dropped a bomb on me, baby’

Last week I was reading in the good book about good works. Ephesians 2:10 says, “…we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.” Some translations say we should spend our lives helping others.

Well deserved

EDITORIAL Texas teachers get a raise and here are just a few of the reasons why Texas teachers are getting a well-deserved raise this year and the reaction has been universal. Good for them. Why do they deserve a raise, and much more?

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Thanks to the city for YMCA at park’s pool Dear editor: I want to thank the City Council for hiring the Hut-to YMCA staff which was managed by John Ramirez. He is an outstanding and caring professional in every way. I noticed his passion for children, swimming and safety.

More thanks for YMCA summer work at pool

Dear editor: As the summer break is coming to an end, I want to take a moment to express how delighted I’ve been with the city’s partnership with the YMCA to operate the City Pool.

Looking back...

10-20-40-100 YEARS AGO 100 YEARS AGO.... Two men died in a bizarre shootout across the street from the Milam County Courthouse. The men, brothers-in-law, reportedly had a falling out over a family matter.

Consumers need more fiber in their news

OUTLAW INLAW I’d like to discuss what happens in communities that have no newspapers to report on government, school or water board meetings. Cochran County, a farming and ranching community in the High Plains, lost its local paper, The Morton Tribune, in 2011.