Good advice for the 60-and-above crowd

FALLING FAR FROM THE TREE Idon’t know where this came from or who wrote it, but it sounds like good advice to me. Between 60 and death. It’s time to use the money you saved up. Use it and enjoy it. Don’t just keep it for those who may have no notion of the sacrifices you made to get it.

Work week

Is a four-day work week appropriate for Rockdale businesses? Recently the Rockdale Independent School District sent out a message to parents asking if they would like to move to a four-day week instead of five days. It made us wonder how this would go over.

Looking back...

At a joint meeting of the American Legion, Chamber of Commerce and City Council committees, final plans were worked out for the big all-day holiday street working which Rockdale was to pull off on March 7 under the auspices of the American Legion.

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Dear editor, I want to thank all the wonderful people who donated money and sponsored our children in foster care for Christmas. Our children are all from Milam County and have been traumatized by parental physical and emotional abuse and severe neglect.

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Dear editor, I am writing to thank Rockdale area residents for sharing the true meaning of Christmas with children in need this past holiday season.

Parents’ reactions to school bomb threat

FALLING FAR FROM THE TREE Not to trivialize last week’s school bomb threat hoax, but I do hate it when big events happen on Thursdays in the weekly newspaper business.

What’s going on in Milam County

JUDGE’S COMMENTS One thing about our c ount y, ther e i s always something going on here in Milam County. I try weekly to write an article on one subject, but sometimes I can’t. So, let’s look at a few of those things.

LOOKING BACK

City Health Officer R.W. Wallis recently sent specimens of the city water from which Rockdale derives her drinking water to the State Health Officer for examination.

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Dear editor, On behalf of our organization “Bring CASA to Milam County,” we want to thank you for the six used chairs that you donated to us.

Budget, debt

Can congress control its budget and debt mess? Working together maybe. The national debt is now at $31.5 trillion and counting. Were it to be divided among all income taxpayers, we’d each be on the hook for about a quarter million dollars.