RHD vote

This is going to be a confusing editorial to read and it wasn’t a bowl of Blue Bell cookies-and-cream to write either. Voters within the Rockdale Independent School District will go to the polls Nov.

A sad memory, a happy new tradition

Another 9/11 anniversary has come and gone, and just like we’re told to “never forget” I don’t think any of us could ever forget that morning. I was working in Houston at The Greensheet newspaper at the time. None of us knew about it until our boss arrived to work a little late.

Milam County is doing well with grants

A grant is money that is made available to local government from our state and federal governments for a specific purpose. Once the money is made available, local government must go through a lengthy written application and qualifying process.

QUICK LOOK

Burn ban lifted after recent rain The Milam County outdoor burn ban was lifted at 8:30 a.m. Thursday, according to County Judge Steve Young. Milam’s burn ban lifting applies only to rural areas of the county.

Denice

Everyone who knew Denice Doss—and that includes thousands of us—knows she left us far too soon last Tuesday. But, perhaps, not that many of us stopped to think she was one of the few persons in any community who was involved with, and deeply touched, its residents at so many phases of life.

The happiest days are when babies come

What a difference a week makes. It was so hot week before last that I thought we were all going to die. But I am loving the rain and cooler temperatures lately. Naturally the rain started as I was delivering papers last Wednesday.

Rockdale native Sutton’s feel-good fairytale

Troy Sutton – a Rockdale native, plumber in Fredericksburg and allaround good guy – has lived a feel-good fairytale for the past few years. At Rockdale High School in the 1980s, we had two foreign exchange students from Sweden.

Looking back...

10-20-40-100 YEARS AGO YEARS AGO 100 YEARS AGO.... Rockdale area farmers were invited to attend a mass meeting in the City Hall on to hear plans of the “United Cotton Growers’ Association.

Free food program start date has changed

The date for the Texas Department of Agriculture’s free meal program for Rockdale children and senior citizens has changed.. The free meal program is now set to begin Oct. 5. The distribution site will be 225 North Main and will be open from 4 to 8 p.m.

Be a witness for God

There’s a true story about a woman walking through the Beacon Hill section of Boston and big time Christian John Vassar stopped the woman and asked her, “If she was a Christian?