Please help solve a Rockdale mystery

All right fellow Rockdalians, we have a mystery right here in our town that we need to solve. The beautiful, mysterious woman pictured here worked in the Old City Hall building. This photo was taken in 1940.

County vaccinations continue next week

Next week we hope to get an additional 600 doses of vaccine. These are first round doses, meaning they are to be used for the initial shot. We will run two clinics in the county next week on Wednesday, Jan. 27 and Thursday, Jan. 28, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Looking back... Through The Reporter Files

100 YEARS AGO... C.F. Drake, secretary of the Rockdale Commercial Club, announced that negotiations had been practically concluded looking to the establishment of a large cotton mill in Rockdale, to employ not less that 5,000 spindles and consumer much of the cotton grown in this county.

Our Capitol

As a small town journalist I feel somewhat obligated to say something about the events of Jan. 6 in our nation’s capital, but I’m still a little in shock. It was sad seeing my parents, horrified, watching the events unfold on television.

Beautiful snow day, good COVID-19 info

I felt like a kid again all day Sunday while it was snowing. It was so beautiful. I couldn’t help but be out in it most of the day just watching it come down. It seemed quieter than normal, but the best sounds were hearing the kids and grandkids in the neighborhood laughing and playing.

COVID-19 vaccinations ongoing in county

We want everyone in Milam County to get vaccinated for the COVID-19 virus. We are working hard to get the vaccine administered, just as quickly as we get it from the state. We got our first 100 doses on Dec. 29 and since then we have received a total of 700 doses.

Looking back... Through The Reporter Files

100 YEARS AGO... At the Rockdale opera house the home talent of Thorndale presented a play entitled “Dust of the Earth,” as a benefit to the “Captain L.L. Lee Post No. 131,” American Legion of Thorndale. The play was also recently presented in Thorndale and met with the approval of the audience.

Express your faith

I was at the post office the other day. It was a Monday. Typically, Monday is a busy day for me and normally a productive day. I hit Mondays running, emptying the inbox like a “boss” and this Monday was no different. The trip to the post office is where my Monday pumped the brakes on my efficiency.

Cabbage for luck, pasta because it’s good

I hope you all ate your black-eyed peas like you were supposed to so you’ll have good luck this year. And also some greens of some kind for money. I made this cabbage recipe. It’s really simple and you definitely need to add the vinegar at the end.

Relief and hope

Hope. That is exactly what was injected into a world exhausted by the novel coronavirus pandemic, via the arms of some Milam County health-care providers. A world that has seen 1.8 million deaths is indeed tired of dealing with this.