Holiday closings

Monday is the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. holiday and a number of businesses will be closed. Rockdale ISD, Thorn-dale ISD, Thorndale St. Paul’s, Milano ISD and Gause ISD students have a holiday. Financial institutions, the post office and the city library will be closed.

Bitmain: ‘We’re staying’

Despite what was literally a worldwide flurry of reports last week that Bitmain’s Rockdale project was somewhere between “on hold” and “dead in the water,” the project’s local facility manager says that’s definitely not the case and Bitmain is getting ready to begin preliminary tech work in about a...

Two months to go

The big day is getting closer. On March 13, a little less than two months away, Rockdale plans to move its police department three blocks east, and across the street, to the new building on the corner of Green and East Cameron (US 79).

Child porn indictment returned

CAMERON—A 46-year-old Rockdale man was indicted Thursday by a Milam County Grand Jury on two counts of promotion of child pornography and two counts of possession of child pornography. David Wayne Carter was one of 32 persons indicted on 40 counts, according to Prosecutor Bill Torrey. PROBE—Sgt. J.

Sunday sky spectacular on tap and it’s free!

There’s a sky spectacular for Rockdale residents, and the rest of the Western Hemisphere, on tap Sunday night. If the weather cooperates, that is. A total eclipse of the moon will offer just over an hour of totality in an event that has a lot going for it from our neck of the solar system.

Milam growing, new housing doubles

JUDGE’S COMMENTS As your new county Judge, I am compelled to thank Judge Dave Barkemeyer and our county commissioners, including Commissioner Opey Watkins, Donald Shuffield, John Fisher and Jeff Muegge for an excellent job of leading the county through eight of the toughest years since the Great...

HONOR ROLLS

Projects lift ‘18 to No. 2 building year

Permits for two colossal projects—the new Tiger Stadium and an 84-bed nursing home—rocketed 2018 to second place all-time for construction in Rockdale. The 2018 total was $11,374,309, second only to $30,877,029 in 2008.

That’s C-L-O-S-E-D

The Rockdale Volunteer Fire Department, assisted by other agencies, made two high-water rescues at the same location within 10 hours Thursday, both to free trapped motorists who drove around “Road Closed” signs into Brushy Creek flood waters. Above, at 2:30 p.m.

QUICK LOOK

Lions’ annual soup suppers start Thursday The Rockdale Noon Lions Club’s annual soup suppers, a delicious winter tradition, begin Thursday in the New Salem Clubhouse at Fair Park and continue every Thursday through Jan. 31. Price is $8 per person and includes roll/cornbread, tea/water and dessert.