RECOGNIZE THEM?

Chances are pretty good you’ve walked up and down these ramps and stairs at some point in you life. They are from the old Tiger Field stands which were razed to make way for the new stadium. being built this summer.

Thorndale cookoff set for weekend

QUICK LOOK THORNDALE—The 28th annual Thorndale Barbecue Cookoff will unreel Friday and Saturday. The annual Thorn-dale Revue beauty pageant is 7 p.m. Thursday at the Thorndale High School cafeteria There will be dances in the Thorndale City Park Pavilion both nights.

Here’s what it will look like

This is the answer to the question uttered by just about everyone who has driven down Murray Avenue since work on Rockdale’s new football stadium began last month. Thanks to the Rockdale ISD, here’s an architectural rendering of the finished project, expected before summer’s end.

Architect: Use $1M donation for outside of Old City Hall

The architect who presented a feasibility study on restoring Rockdale’s Old City Hall to the city council last week has an idea on how to proceed with the complicated process.

CELEBRITIES

—Gerald Anderson, great-nephew of rodeo immortal Bill Pickett, visits with Mattie Pearl McBride, Juneteenth parade grand marshal, as they prepare to unveil a storyboard marker in downtown Rockdale Saturday.

A day for history: Pickett and Juneteenth

February is Black History Month but Saturday was certainly Black History Day in downtown Rockdale. In addition to the annual downtown-to-Sumuel Park Juneteenth Parade, a storyboard marker was dedicated honoring legendary African-American cowboy Bill Pickett.

HOT TIME DOWNTOWN

—But scores of people braved temperatures, and humidity, well into the 90s Saturday afternoon to attend a couple of events, the dedication of a storyboard in honor of Bill Pickett, who is credited with the first “bulldogging” near this site in 1903, and the start of the annual Juneteenth parade.

Five sentenced in district court

CAMERON—Five persons were sentenced during the past week in 20th District Court of Milam County, according to Prosecutor Bill Torrey who listed case dispositions as follows: • Brent Lee Nunn, 36, of Rosebud, was sentenced to two years confinement in the Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ)...

NEWS BRIEFS

Surplus food giveaway Thursday at KC Hall Central Texas Food Bank’s Mobile Pantry will host a distribution at 9 a.m. Thursday, at the KC Hall, according to Denise Sifuentes, spokesperson.

Rain

Through 6 a.m. Wednesday, Rockdale’s official two-day rainfall total in the U.S. Weather Service gauge at KRXT-FM was 1.03 inches as tropical moisture streamed up into Texas. A chance of rain is also forecast for the next few days with another system possible next week.