Looking back...

100 YEARS AGO… Rockdale decided to enter the Brazos River Reclamation Association. The decision was reached at a meeting in the Chamber of Commerce rooms, which was attend by about 50 citizens of Rockdale, Cameron, Gause, San Gabriel and Tracy. Mr. B. Ashby, manager of the Rockdale Motor Car Co.

MSCO Awards

The Milam County Sheriff’s Office awarded many in the department Milam County Sheriff’s Office celebrated our outstanding employees over the last two days at our annual Christmas parties that also served as our awards banquets.

Rockdale: no longer coal mining town

(A column from former editor Mike Brown about a day that no Rockdalian will ever forget: Friday the 13th, 2017.) There’s no way to sugar coat or spin this one. The closing of Luminant’s Sandow 4 and 5 power plant units is a body blow to Rockdale and Milam County.

Brady’s Pest Control saves Reporter’s day

Boy did we ever have a frantic morning at The Reporter last Wednesday. After being a good and faithful servant for many years, our old dot matrix printer which we use for the mailing labels for the paper, decided to bite the dust. We didn’t know how we were going to get all the subscriptions out.

Dear editor

Dear editor, On Friday, I had the honor to watch the Coffee House Showcase at Rockdale High School. For those who were not able to attend, man did you miss out! All of the performers did and fantastic job! However, what I want to share with you all is what else I saw.

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Dear editor, The saying, “it takes a village,” has been used so much in recent years, that perhaps it has become cliché, losing some of its profound truth. Virtually all of life reminds us that we live in community and in relationship with all that is around us.

I’m the luckiest boy in the world!

With a 50 percent divorce rate in the US in 2022, I am very lucky to still have both my parents alive at their ages and for them to still be married. In fact, they will celebrate their 64th anniversary on December 21. Sixty-four years of wedded bliss.

LOOKING BACK

10-20-40-100 YEARS AGO 100 YEARS AGO… The members of the board of trustees of the Rockdale Public School tendered a banquet to the lettermen of the high school football squad. The affair was given at the Mrosko Café. In addition to the football boys and the trustees, there were present Mayor H.C.

Dear editor

Dear editor, There has been some talk that Street Ministries 25:40 has been going to Austin and picking up homeless individuals and bringing them to Rockdale. We have not and will not do this. First we don’t have the resources to really handle our issues now with those who have nothing.

The healing power of Christmas

“And the Word became f lesh and l ived among us” (John 1:14). Bonnie Wheeler tells of a week before Christmas when her daughter Becki was recovering from massive orthopedic surgery in a pediatric ward where candy canes and jingle bells mingled with I.V. poles and wheelchairs.