Don’t forget to love

I’m a routine guy. I get up at the same time every day (except Sundays). The Blonde gets up before me and she spends about an hour alone with Jesus and then she comes in and wakes me up, “Rise and shine!” We then meet at our brand-new dining room table.

How often should I forgive?

You will find the passage in the 18th chapter of Matthew: Peter comes to Jesus and asks, “Lord, if my brother sins against me, how of ten should I forgive? As many as seven times? Jesus said to him, “Not seven times, but I tell you, seventy times seven.

Don’t use that photo, the cow looks ugly!

Ihave a friend named Kim Wettstein. She’s probably your friend too. She has a daughter, Makayla, who is very picky about which pictures of her that her mom puts on her social media pages. Kim posts them anyway, but if Makayla doesn’t like them Kim puts something over her face. Its rather comical.

Facts and answers about the ESD

As we march through Early Voting headed to the Nov. 7 Election Day, I wanted to put out some answers to the most popular questions so far about the proposed Emergency Services District (ESD).

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Dear editor, Please add the Rockdale I&GN Depot Museum as another walkable place downtown. The depot was renovated through the personal dedication of the founders and the support of the community to regain its 1906 visage.

Abbott’s folly

Governor’s voucher focus is derailing public school funding If ever there were evidence of the folly of insisting on a new spa in the backyard before you fix the leaky roof or cracked foundation, then it is Gov. Greg Abbott’s approach to education legislation in Austin.

Proposition 7

Vote for this proposition to keep the lights on during a Texas emergency Coming off a brutally hot summer i n which Texas set 10 unofficial state records for electricity demand and issued nearly a dozen requests for energy conservation to keep the lights on, it would be reasonable to be a bit...

My brush with America’s first supermodel

FALLING FAR FROM THE TREE During my time at two of the newspapers I worked for in Houston, I had a customer named Dolores Phelps. She sold country properties in Washington County back when rich people from Houston were buying those properties, and she did very well for herself.

Get out the vote, Milam County

This is a busy time here in Milam County and the State of Texas as a whole with the biennial state constitution election and the third called special session of the state legislature in Austin.

LOOKING BACK

YEARS AGO 100 YEARS AGO… The chief business of the board of directors at the Chamber of Commerce meeting, at which 10 members answered to roll call, was the discussion of the road situation as it affects Rockdale business interests. Facts were presented by Dr.