Columns & Opinions

College: Here are tips to make the tough decisions

News Staff
Thu, 10/11/2018 - 00:00
RISD REPORT RHS Principal Tiffany Whitsel has great information regarding making that very important decision: As you begin your college search, one of the first decisions you need to make and one that helps narrow your list is what size college you want to attend.

Christmas Cottage, gift exchange ahead

News Staff
Thu, 10/11/2018 - 00:00
COMMENTS FROM MICAH Christmas Cottage provides you an opportunity to shop for holiday gifts and decorations, get new ideas and enjoy a great lunch. Mark Nov.2 on your calendar for the Christmas Cottage and Craft Fair at Bea’s Kitchen on the courthouse square in Cameron.

Lunar communion

News Staff
Thu, 10/11/2018 - 00:00
Lift up your eyes World Communion Sunday. Congregations here in Rockdale and all over the world will join together in observing Holy Communion, the Last Supper of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.

Looking for a friend, not a friendly church

News Staff
Thu, 10/11/2018 - 00:00
He told me to tell you that Istarted teaching out of the Book of James months ago. I thought it would be easy breezy, everybody likes the Book of James right?

Fake bills still in circulation

News Staff
Thu, 10/04/2018 - 00:00
POLICE REPORT Two weeks ago, Rockdale police expressed the hope all the “Hollywood money” counterfeit bills circulating around town had been accounted for. That turned out to be a bit premature. Lt. Stephen Goodrich said two more of the phony bills, both $20s, turned up during the week.

One arrest, one sought in shooting

News Staff
Thu, 10/04/2018 - 00:00
SHERIFF’S REPORT Cameron Police and the Bell County Sheriff’s Department have arrest one suspect in connection with the shooting of a Cameron man on Sept. 13. Atorios Marquis “Li’l Man” Williams, 21, was wanted in connection with the shooting of 28-year-old Keelon Williams of Calvert. K.

10 years

News Staff
Thu, 10/04/2018 - 00:00
EDITORIAL It was exactly 10 years ago—Oct. 2, 2008, to be exact—when the “other shoe” dropped. That’s when Alcoa announced it was closing the remaining three potlines at Rockdale Operations.

Are smartphones making our teens dumb?

News Staff
Thu, 10/04/2018 - 00:00
OUTLAW INLAW Cell phones are the single best and worst invention in my lifetime. When I’m trying to research a story or call a source or when I’m trying to find my family at the store, I often wonder how I survived without this little gadget for the first 25 years of my life.

Looking back... Through The Reporter Files

News Staff
Thu, 10/04/2018 - 00:00
100 YEARS AGO.... It was all war news. Leroy Pickens, the first Milam County soldier to be wounded in France, sent his mother on Rockdale Rural Route 3, a grim souvenir, a piece of metal from a German airplane stained with the blood of an enemy officer “who was shot with a rifle at very close range.

THEY REALLY SAID THAT?

News Staff
Thu, 10/04/2018 - 00:00
“The best thing about being an Olympic chamption? They have to wait four years before they get a chance to beat you.” —Usain Bolt