It’s hard to know thyself

He told me to tell you that They say, “If serving is beneath you, Christianity is above you.” Jesus told us He “Did not come to be served, but to serve.” Sometimes we need a wake up call. The book tells us, “For you are all children of light, children of the day.

4-H plans summer activities in Milam

COMMENTS FROM MICAH Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service and Milam County 4-H will hold 2 free day camps and some other fun activities this summer. Fun Day Camp will be held June 7 and is for Clovers through K-second grade and will be at the Bea’s Kitchen in Cameron. Hours are 9 a.m. to 12-noon.

Let’s turn out

EDITORIAL In 1980,—the first Rockdale City Council election with a mayor’s race under the new city charter—the turnout was 515. That was termed “extremely light.” Thirty-six years later, in 2016, the most recent council race with a contested mayoral ballot, before this year’s, the turnout was 528.

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Thanks to businesses for CPS board support Dear editor, The Milam County CPS Board wants to thank Brett’s Barbeque for allowing us to give information about our board’s mission to his customers last Sunday. We were able to receive donations to help our Milam County children in state care.

A different kind of ‘night on the town’

EDITOR’S CORNER We’ve recently returned from a press convention in nearby La Grange. In fact, during our stay I got to thinking about the “nearby” part. And came to the conclusion La Grange is the nearest to Rockdale I have ever intentionally spent a night.

What a sweet week for Milam County

JUDGE’S COMMENTS Last week was particularly sweet in the county as we had our first ever Moot Court competition and we began in earnest to make the county look better.

Looking back... Through The Reporter Files

100 YEARS AGO.... Vice-President Marshall’s quick speech in Rockdale was over but the repercussions lingered. Cameron Enterprise Publisher W. M. Cobb said he came aboard the vice-president’s train car and unsuccessfully invited him to Cameron.

Jesus is a good bet

Iwas just reading about a guy in Philippians 2:25 named Epaphroditus. He was a servant leader, an ordinary guy who sat in a pew on Sunday, but he was asked to go and minister to the Apostle Paul while he was under house arrest in Rome for preaching the good news of Jesus Christ.

Market on Main starts Saturday at depot-museum

CHAMBER CHAT Our Business of the Month is Brett’s Back Yard BBQ, located at the intersection of West Cameron and Wilcox (US 79 and FM 487). Brett’s was recently named one of the top 25 new barbecue joints in the state by Texas Monthly magazine, checking in at No. 20.

Dead man is resurrected

He told me to tell you that Easter is over. It’s like in the kid’s movie “A Bug’s Life,” when the queen bee says, “It’s the same every year, they come, they eat, they leave....” If it only takes an egg hunt to double our attendance than we will hunt eggs every week at my church.