We didn’t need printers; we had carbon paper

EDITOR’S CORNER Thursday morning there was a major crisis at The Rockdale Reporter. Our printers didn’t work for about half an hour. Of course I had already sent seven different things to the printers before discovering nothing was printing.

Looking back...

100 YEARS AGO.... The world-wide flu pandemic continued to ravage Rockdale. A. M. Evard, 31, appeared to be recovering one morning but “had something like a congestive chill” in the afternoon and died. Particularly sad was the case of housewife Mrs.

Get slow cooker in shape for fall

COMMENTS FROM MICAH It is that time of year again where more and more families are cooking in the slow cooker because of the cold months. If the slow cooker in your house hasn’t been used in a while or even if you use it on a regular basis, it is a good idea to test it for accuracy.

Christmas Cottage Friday in Cameron

4-H AND FCH NEWS Christmas Cottage provides you an opportunity to shop for holiday gifts and decorations, get new ideas and enjoy a great lunch. Mark Nov. 2 on your calendar for the Christmas Cottage and Craft Fair at Bea’s Kitchen on the courthouse square in Cameron.

It’s the ‘cement’

In Young People’s Conference, more years ago than I would ever admit, we sang a little song with big meaning: Here are the lyrics as I remember them: “It’s love, it’s love, it’s love that makes the world go round.” It’s true. It’s love that makes the world go round.

BIBLE VERSE

Make a tree good and its fruit will be good, or make a tree bad and its fruit will be bad. —Matthew 12:33 19:18 (NIV)

Christmas cottage ahead Nov. 2nd

COMMENTS FROM MICAH Christmas Cottage provides you an opportunity to shop for holiday gifts and decorations, get new ideas and enjoy a great lunch. Mark Nov. 2 on your calendar for the Christmas Cottage and Craft Fair at Bea’s Kitchen on the courthouse square in Cameron.

Oh that rain!

EDITORIAL If you’re a relative newcomer to Rockdale, your reaction to the five-inch-plus rain that interfered with the 2018 Rockdale Fair was probably “really?” But if you are a longtime resident, your reaction was probably “here we go again.

Young workers changing norms, and I like it

It’s been eight years that Ken and I have been away from Rockdale. In those years, I’ve held jobs in the newspaper business and as a college professor.

‘Meet George Jetson,’ no longer in the future

There’s a TV commercial going around now which uses the well-known theme songs from both “The Flintstones” and “The Jetsons.” I forget what it’s for, but every time I see it I wonder how much they had to pay to use those two classic pieces of Americana. I’ll bet it wasn’t cheap.