News
Early voting for the N ov. 5 Texas Constitutional Amendment election begins Monday at four locations throughout Milam County.
Hours and locations are as follows:
The 44th Annual Rockdale Fair continues Thursday through Saturday and, at least at midweek, it appears the weather will cooperate this time around.
By Mike Brown
There was plenty of that in the annual Miss Rockdale Fair Queen Pageant, held Saturday evening in the RHS Auditorium.
Sports
Things got scary for RHS during Friday night’s Homecoming game at Tiger Stadium when a hungry Lago Vista team scored two consecutive touchdowns early in the second to make the score 17-14 with less
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Columns & Opinions
Our Super Second Grade Teachers Jenah Campsey, Erin Countryman, Jana Dood, Whitney Pounders, and Melanie Moody wrote the article for Rockdale Elementary this week.
By Allen Sanders
What’s the hardest thing you have ever done? Can you remember the hard days, the hard seasons I can think of a lot of them.
By Ken Ansell
Lifestyle
Kerri Phillip of the Area Agency on Aging speaks to a full house at the town hall held Thursday morning at the Rockdale Senior Center.
Classic Bank recently donated $1,320 to the Rockdale Volunteer Fire Department. Fire Chief Ward Roddam accepted from bank employees.
Here’s the first-place Milam County 4-H plant ID team from recent competition at the State Fair of Texas. From left: Coach Irby McWilliams, Jason Ponnaiya, Jack Luckey, Jenna Lindig.
Obituaries
Mary L. Beyer, 76, a longtime Rockdale resident, died Tuesday, Oct. 1, 2019, at Winnie L. Nursing Center in Cameron, after a sudden illness.
Charles “Cotton” Hubert, 85, died Tuesday, Aug. 20, 2019.
He was born Jan. 15, 1934, to Jessie Lewis Hubert and Ralph Hubert in the Minerva community of Milam County.
Almond “Billy” Lee Moultrie Jr., 71 of Austin, formerly of Rockdale, died Monday, Oct. 7, 2019, at his daughter’s home in Pflugerville.
Photo Galleries
Five inches of rain overnight Thursday triggered flooding in Rockdale's "low places" including Meadow Drive. Numerous streets were closed.
Rockdale Volunteer Fire Department on the scene of a blaze at Logs to Lumber, a woodworking shop just after 3 p.m. Thursday. The shop is located on US 79 just east of the US 77 underpass.
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