Oh that rain!

EDITORIAL If you’re a relative newcomer to Rockdale, your reaction to the five-inch-plus rain that interfered with the 2018 Rockdale Fair was probably “really?” But if you are a longtime resident, your reaction was probably “here we go again.

Young workers changing norms, and I like it

It’s been eight years that Ken and I have been away from Rockdale. In those years, I’ve held jobs in the newspaper business and as a college professor.

‘Meet George Jetson,’ no longer in the future

There’s a TV commercial going around now which uses the well-known theme songs from both “The Flintstones” and “The Jetsons.” I forget what it’s for, but every time I see it I wonder how much they had to pay to use those two classic pieces of Americana. I’ll bet it wasn’t cheap.

Looking back... Through The Reporter Files

100 YEARS AGO.... Sad shock followed by a happy one. Mr. and Mrs. Ab White of the Rockdale area received word their son, Albert, doing government work in Alabama, had died. The body was returned by train. The Whites were astounded to see the body was not their son.

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Thanks to volunteers at Girls Softball fields Dear editor, I drove by the Girls Softball Complex the other day and a thought crossed my mind. How many girls have played softball on this complex since it was built?

Workers made wiener dog races successful

Dear editor, Thanks to all those who made the wiener dog races successful Oct. 6 during the Fall Music Festival. Masters of ceremonies were Dr. David Pendleton and Ward Roddam. Dr. David Pendleton, Joan Ratliff, Pam Warren and Ron Rabinowitz were judges for the race.

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In Germany, he’s appreciating U.S. ideas

SPOILIN’ THE BROTH Grandson Esten Cooke, 17, is a Rotary foreign exchange student, spending the year in Germany.

Are we dumber? No, just multiple choice

EDITOR’S CORNER One of those surveys came out last week, the kind that’s supposed to induce “what have we come to?” tsk-tsking. You know the kind. “Forty percent of respondents can’t find their own front door without an app.

Looking back... Through The Reporter Files

100 YEARS AGO.... Pvt. Jesse Fleming became the second Rockdale soldier to die in World War I. His wife, Tansy Taylor Fleming, received word in a telegram from the War Department. He was the son of Mr. and Mrs. A.J. Fleming of Tracy.