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.

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Starting a dialogue over abortion issue Dear editor, Two Saturday evenings ago, I attended the Place of Hope fundraising event headlined by Rockdale native, Abby Brannan Johnson. I was invited to attend by a friend, and I will begin this letter by telling readers what I told my friend.

Congrats to Reporter for recent awards

Dear editor, Loved seeing The Reporter win all those awards. You all are such a positive voice for the community, and you present the news in such a professional, high quality way. Thank you and congratulations, Leah Martaindale Martaindale3@yahoo.com

ABOUT LETTERS

The Reporter welcomes letters to the editor on subjects of interest to our readers. Short letters are most likely to be chosen for publication. The editor reserves the right to edit letters to meet space requirements, for clarity, or to avoid obscenity, libel or invasion of privacy.

THEY REALLY SAID THAT?

“When we are all well we have good advice for those who are ill.” —Lucius Annaeus Seneca

In the presence of industry legends

TEXAS TYPE Ihad the chance to see some legends recently, but they weren’t Tiger Woods or Dirk Nowitzki. Our South Texas Press Association, the largest regional press association in the nation, met in La Grange for a weekend of education, entertainment and friendly competition.

First moot court helping to unify county

JUDGE’S COMMENTS Shortly after taking office I had an idea to have a first ever county wide “moot court” competition with all five schools competing. That’s a legal exercise with two-student teams making an oral argument made in open court about a hypothetical problem.

Looking back...

100 YEARS AGO.... At 6 p.m. on a Wednesday, Rockdale residents were advised U.S. Vice-President Thomas Marshall would visit town early the next morning to make a speech urging support for the new Liberty Loan bond drive.

Love helps redeem all who atone

He told me to tell you that Iloved watching Tiger Woods win the Masters this past Sunday. We loved it when he won on the course. We were in a twisted way glad when he failed off the course and now grace has had a comeback.