QUICK LOOK

Movie night set Saturday at The Kay Milam County retired School Personnel’s next movie night at the Kay Theatre is Saturday. “Roman Holiday,” starring Gregory Peck and Audrey Hepburn, and directed by William Wyler, will be shown, according to Jamie Larson, spokesperson.

County okays Bitmain abatements

CAMERON—Milam County Commissioners have unanimously approved 10 years of tax abatements for Bitmain’s planned facility in the former Alcoa smelter. That Monday meeting also featured the first public appearance of a Bitmain executive, James Kyle of the company’s Sunnyvale, California office.

RING: Here comes school on Monday

Monday is the first day of classes for the 2018-19 school year and Rockdale ISD administrators are expecting it to look a great deal like the first day of 2017-18.

DR. GRANDPA—

‘He may have been your doctor, but he’s my grandpa’ says Asher Weed during Friday’s reception for Dr. John M. Weed III who is retiring after 44 years practicing in his home town.

Rockdale’s new bitcoin to become ‘world’s largest blockchain mining’

Bitmain and Rockdale’s spectacularly brightening economic prospects were informational agenda items for the city council Monday.

PAWS relocating dogs, facing cash crunch

Rockdale PAWS is saving the lives of dogs found on Rockdale streets and now it is appealing to the public to help save some more.

Council presented Old City Hall option

The Rockdale City Council, which has been mulling how to pay for a restoration of the old City Hall to its Victorian Era glory was presented an intriguing new strategy Monday.

Mom gets 8 years for neglect

CAMERON—A former Milano resident who pleaded guilty in April to neglecting her child as part of an online scam received an eight-year prison term Thursday in 20th District Court. Katelyn Carnline, 29, still faces charges in Brazos County, according to Prosecutor Bill Torrey.

NEWSBRIEFS

One killed in accident near Cameron Monday A 65-year-old Cameron man died in a head-on crash Monday night just north of the Cameron city limits. According to the DPS, Joe Lewis was pronounced dead at the scene by Justice of the Peace Sam Berry shortly after the 9:02 p.m. collision on US 77.

Five accidents during week

POLICE REPORT Rockdale police were called to five traffic accidents during the past week as follows: • 7:38 a.m. Friday, Wilcox at Cameron (FM 487 at US 79), drivers John Fisher and Eliza Vargas, both of Rock-dale, minor damages. • 4:11 p.m.