Groundhog Day

A little history about this annual ritual about the weather on February 2 The first official Groundhog Day celebration took place on February 2, 1887, in Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania. The annual ritual has roots in pre-Christian traditions and was brought to the U.S. by German immigrants.

Victorian spinsters no strangers to comedy

Ateacher places four worms in four separate test tubes: The 1st in beer. The 2nd in wine. The 3rd in whiskey and The 4th in mineral water. The next day, the teacher shows the results to her students. The 1st worm in beer, dead. The 2nd worm in wine, dead. The 3rd worm in whiskey, dead.

Don’t be a puppy

The Blonde is a huge animal lover. Something she hid from me most of our marriage (just kidding). One year for Christmas Santa Claus brought the now 24-year-old second- grade teacher who used to live at our house (youngest daughter Klaire) a Shih Tzu puppy named Buster.

Only you present the Christian life as you

The fifty seminarians file into their seats in the audience, waving at one another, rattling their programs and checking their ticket stubs for seating arrangements. Fifty of them, over there across the Jordan. “Isn’t this the show that Elijah made famous in Second Kings, Chapter Two?”

Emergency Management drills to begin

This week Milam County is holding what is called a “Tabletop” emergency management drill. This is where the principal players in emergency management at the county, community and state level work together to go through the steps we face when handling an emergency.

Looking back...

Members of Rockdale Volunteer fire Department with their three young lady sponsors as honored guests enjoyed their annual banquet. The affair was held at the Mrosko Café and the menu consisted of an old-fashioned turkey dinner, with all the necessary “fixin’s,” served family style.

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Dear editor, I loved your column about the concrete mess in downtown Rockdale. What so much concrete? It has taken away the two lanes in each direction, and the part that takes away our right turning lane at the corner of the library. Is it going to make Rockdale pretty? I don’t think so.

Powell steps into grandmother’s shoes

(Reporter readers will again be treated to a series of Black History stories with a focus on Rockdale’s Black History from Tamara Hebert Powell.

$33 billion

Legislators should take care of taxpayers, future with surplus We’re in the sunny money days here in Texas it seems, even if the gray skies of recession and inflation are looming on the horizon. The main question state legislators will have to worry about now is how we spend it all.

Looking back...

100 YEARS AGO… J.L. Clark, radio expert of San Gabriel, was in Thorndale and we learn that San Gabriel School would soon have a receiving set which would rival any set in the country. The equipment was purchased by private subscriptions and the proceeds from entertainments.