A picture-perfect Fair
Perfect weather, better-than-expected auction highlights 34th annual biggest event
About the only thing more perfect than the 34th Rockdale Fair's livestock auction sale over the weekend was the weather. The sale raised $189,934.70 for Milam County's FFA and 4-H youth despite the complete shutdown of Alcoa's Rockdale Operations smelter and the ending of Sandow 5 power plant construction during the year. Full Story
Baseball field project bids are double what expected
Re-design eyed, but time is tight to meet spring season deadline
Some Rockdale school trustees are hoping the major renovation-expansion project at the RHS baseball field hasn't been called out before it even got up to bat. Supt. Dr. Full Story
Pump failure blamed for boil water alert
Tempers rose as water pressure fell last week, causing a 24-hour boil water alert for the entire town. Service was back to normal by 2 p.m. Thursday, once a water sample from the city got the okay from the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality. A pump failure was the cause. Full Story
Fair volunteers pull off another great event
Coming off of the Rockdale Fair Week I know many of us are feeling the tired. But it is a good tired because it was a great week. I won two reserve grand champions and one grand champion on my projects in the Home Economics Division— what fun! It seemed like the entries at the Home Demonstration Club were up this year and that made for a great display. Full Story
Still high, but steady at 10.2%
Rate has leveled, on par with much of nation
Milam County's jobless rate stayed at 10.2 percent in February and the county has been above or near the double-digit unemployment mark for much of the past year. Milam's rate compares with 5. Full Story
AUCTION ACTION
Though many feared this year's Rockdale Fair Livestock Auction would suffer one year after massive area layoffs, buyer's stepped up and bid local animals up to roughly $190,000, just down from last year's total of $196,000. This year's buyers' dinner, sponsored by the Rockdale Fair Association, drew buyers as large as Luminant to several independent business persons. Full Story
RHS graduate coaches spreading wide Tiger influence
While pondering that I will never eat barbecue again after this weekend's fair and watching the high pressure college football rivalry games through the smoke along barbecue row, it occurred to me that there have been few coaches that have graduated from Rockdale that have returned to coach here. Full Story
Wing-T offense doesn't scare Tigers anymore
While most teams send out a code red in practice the week before they are challenged by a Wing-T offensive team, Rockdale has butted heads with the archaic offense so many times, it draws yawns from Tiger coaches and players. Full Story
Snakes rattle and roll
Defense can't save Big Blue this time around
NAVASOTA—If you're perhaps searching for a positive spin to put on Friday night's meltdown against Navasota, look at it this way—look what a loss the week before did for the Rattlers. Full Story
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