3 big projects

EDITORIAL Ten years ago this week was the beginning of the end for Alcoa’s Rockdale Operations. In June, 2008, Alcoa announced it was shutting down three of its six potlines at the Rockdale Operations smelter. In November Alcoa revealed the other three were also going down.

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

‘Proposed budget will harm VA employees’ Dear editor, As private citizens, and as proud members of the American Federation of Government Employees Local 2109, We would like to inform your readers about the value government employees bring to our community.

I still remember editing the ‘old-timer’

EDITOR’S CORNER Has it really been 20 years since I edited the “old timer?” I guess it has. I’ve said many times the very best thing about this job is all the people I’ve gotten to meet whom I never would have known otherwise.

‘Miss Doris’ made English fun in the 50s

Like many youngsters I bought, read, and traded comic books. I had a big box full of them. During the times I was on the farm, I was away from my friends and classmates. Comic books and the World Book Encyclopedia became my salvation from loneliness and depression during slow times on the farm.

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Reporter Juneteenth coverage appreciated Dear editor, I wanted to say thank’s again for the incredible coverage in The Reporter of the Rockdale Juneteenth Celebration this year.

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Dear editor, The Thorndale VFD Ladies Auxiliary wish to thank everyone who purchased turkey and dressing plates at the 28th annual Thorndale VFD Barbecue Cookoff. Also thanks to those who purchased their baked items before the awards.

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Dear editor, Milam Community Theater would like to thank the parents and children who made our children’s summer camp, “Big Bad”, such a success. The turn out was beyond our imagination! We are so proud of each and every one of you for the hard work you accomplished.

Speed up basketball? Turn off the clock

EDITOR’S CORNER There is a basketball tourney somewhere in Pennsylvania, I think, which has become the first notable competition to adopt the Elam Rule, or just “Elam,” What’s Elam? Besides being “male” backwards, it is a symptom of our society’s continuing passion to Just Get It Over With.

Lean back and enjoy your reserve seats

SPOILIN’ THE BROTH After roaming the sidelines shooting Friday-night football action for 40-plus years, I became a “fan-in-the-grandstand” about 15 years ago. Peg and I have had the same reserve seats over that time, seats 15 and 16 on the top row against the press-box, Row 16, I believe.

Reversing June’s heat index? It’s a breeze

EDITOR’S CORNER Iwas standing at the corner of Ackerman and Cameron—or, if you’re into numbers, the corner of US 79 and FM 487—yesterday waiting to cross the street. It was hot. That day Rockdale’s official high was 96.