Pumpkins add taste and color to holiday menus, decorations

COMMENTS FROM MICAH With the holiday season upon us, pumpkins will show up in more and more recipes to that fall favorite. Here’s a brief guide. SELECTION—Look for a deep orange color, but some pumpkins can be green. The skin and stem should be hard. Give the pumpkin a good thump.

Advanced placement courses are difficult but worth effort

RISD REPORT The Thanksgiving Holiday is here, and before you know it, St. Nicholas will be making his rounds. This week we have a little food for thought (pun intended) during this week off for Rockdale ISD.

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Thanks to citizen for providing senior rides Dear editor, When Dusty Albreight read that some of our seniors would no longer qualify for special HOP bus services he wanted to make sure those who qualified for a noon hot, balanced meal at the senior center would have transportation to get there and...

For all these things and a whole lot more....

RAMBLING Thanksgiving Day brings hope that your day will be fulfilling as well as full-feeling. Every day should be a day of Thanksgiving.

Who was ‘No. 1’ in our 1940 phone book?

SPOILIN’ THE BROTH Neighbor Grover sez he wonders why bra is singular and panties are plural.

Critical list

EDITORIAL Rockdale’s hospital needs some help as the community searches for hope First, let’s clear up something that’s obvious to anyone who has been a longtime Rockdale resident.

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Thanks for ceremony Dear editor,, As a veteran that attended the RISD Veteran’s Program and lunch on Thursday, there are plenty of thanks due, starting with the faculties The program was inspiring and the music beautiful. The food was delicious and plentiful.

254 counties: Wonder if I’ll ever get there

EDITOR’S CORNER One of the candidates in the recent election—did you know we had an election?—made it a point to mention he had visited all 254 Texas counties in the course of one campaign. I used to want to do that. No, not run for office, visit every county in our fantastic state.

Better to keep peace than to have to make it

SPOILIN’ THE BROTH Neighbor Grover sez he can’t figure out why Gorilla Glue doesn’t stick to the inside of the bottle. Mid-terms have been over a week now. I’m really missing all those nice phone calls from our governor. Never even knew he knew me.

Looking back... Through The Reporter Files

100 YEARS AGO.... Even though the Armistice had been signed, and World War I hostilities had ceased, letters from Rock-dale servicemen—written before the guns stopped firing—continued to be published in The Reporter.