Looking back...

100 YEARS AGO.... Two of Rockdale’s most prominent citizens were either home from hospital stays or were headed that way. Reporter Publisher John Esten Cooke was to be released from the Cameron Sanitarium after a four-week stay for appendix surgery, Mayor H. C.

POSGCD ‘summit’ set in Caldwell

The date for the 2019 Milam and Burleson Counties Groundwater summit in the Caldwell Civic Center has been set for 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., Aug. 14, 2019 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. “All are encouraged to attend,” Doug Box, POSGCD spokesman, said. The summit is free and open to the public with lunch provided.

Photography camp scheduled July 29th

MILAM 4-H NEWS Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service and Milam County 4-H will hold a free photography day camp for youth this summer. Photography Day Camp will be held July 29 at the Cameron Chamber Meeting Room. Ages 7-11 will meet from 8 to 11 a.m. and ages 12-18 will meet from 1-3 p.m.

Keep picnic food safe

COMMENTS FROM MICAH It’s picnic season. Are you doing everything you can to make sure you don’t get ill from food-borne bacteria? Follow these tips to reduce your family’s risk of food-borne illness at picnics: • Take just enough food.

More kindness, less judgment is Christian way

He told me to tell you that The joke about pastors is they only work an hour on Sunday. Nothing could be further from the truth. I work about 55 hours every week and that’s not an exaggeration.