Honoring the service, sacrifice of veterans

E ach year on November 11, our nation pauses to honor the men and women who have worn the uniform of the United States of America.

LOOKING BACK 10-20-40-100 YEARS AGO

10-20-40-100 YEARS AGO 100 YEARS AGO Constituting a good new item for the general public, as well as information of particular interest to the stockholders, the subjoined figures on the Rockdale Building & Loan Association are presented by The Reporter.

Make Milam County stronger: shop local

With Thanksgiving and Christmas just over the horizon, I felt it appropriate to pull this old article out of mothballs and restate an important concept – Shop Local! Many of you know that the Nurse and I make a huge deal of shopping local.

The good, the bad and the ugly

When the City of Rockdale started putting flags up in downtown for special occasions like Presidents Day, Memorial Day and Independence Day, we got our flag out and set it up in front of The Reporter.

Veterans Day

(Editor’s note: Be sure not to miss RISD’s annual Veterans Day Ceremony on Tuesday, November 11 in the RHS competition gym starting at 10 a.m.

THEY REALLY SAID THAT?

“No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.” —Aesop

Don’t pick it up! Five-second rule disproved

(Judge Whitmire is on vacation this week. Here’s a column from Mike Brown from 2012.) In the continuing headlong decline of civilization, we now have new evidence that one of humankind’s most necessary qualities— a sense of humor—is in grave danger. This is not a parody, by the way.

Fall back

Plan on a glorious extra hour of sleep as most of America “falls back” into standard time. But make sure to get outside for some morning sun, too. It’ll help your body clock reset faster. Daylight saving time ends at 2 a.m.

Ode to my best friend and sister, Kathy

Tuesday was my sister Kathy’s happy heavenly birthday, and I’ve been thinking about her a lot lately. I remember she always told me she was a Libra on the zodiac, and I only found out she was really a trueblue Scorpio after she died. And that’s who she was as a person.

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Dear editor, An HEB initiative in collaboration with Texas Master Naturalists is promoting pollinator conservation. Texas pollinators are bees, moths, humming birds, bats, flies, butterflies and beetles.