Three landmark homes: where are they now?

Nice discussion recently on the Facebook page “Growing Up in Rockdale, Texas” concerning three historic homes that have been moved out of our town. Old-timers will remember them. • The J.L.

For the RHS Class of 68, the beat goes on

Not too long after the Rockdale High School graduating Class of 1968 marched across the late Tiger Field and got our diplomas one pleasant May night, Sonny and Cher recorded a song called “The Beat Goes On.” Now, Sonny is dead and Cher has become an embarrassing caricature of herself.

It’s math

EDITORIAL This editorial is going to attempt to explain, in understandable words, what bitcoin and bitcoin mining is all about. This editorial is almost certainly going to fail to do that adequately.

Sleeve: An ‘intelligent ventilation point’

EDITOR’S CORNER Do you ever wonder why people sometimes go to such extraordinary lengths to avoid being simple, concise and direct? Maybe you would if part of your job was to edit what people write. I recently read an interview with Tony Clark, head of the Major League Baseball Players Union.

Bitcoins will skip all the way across Alcoa Lake?

SPOILIN’ THE BROTH Neighbor Grover sez the earliest computer has been traced back to Adam and Eve and it was an Apple with very limited memory. After just one byte, everything crashed.

The lawman

EDITORIAL “I have fought a good fight. I have finished my course. I have kept the faith.”—Second Timothy 4: 7-8. Those words were written more than 2,000 years ago but they were appropriate to dwell on last week as Milam County said farewell to Sheriff David Greene. Greene died June 26.

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Tech-savvy workers will need good broadband Dear editor, I am as excited as everyone that new business might be coming to town and agree we sorely need it. New technical businesses will attract eager young technically trained workers. Many of them will be Millennials.

Entrepreneurs revitalize small towns

It was encouraging to see Editor Mike Brown’s headline on the front page recently that the news about the Bitcoin operation may just be the first of many to utilize the vast Alcoa land holdings.

Rockdale resident was ‘Enola Gay’ crew member

MILAM HISTORY Monday was the 73rd anniversary of the dropping of the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan. What does that have to do with Rockdale? The radar operator of the Enola Gay, the plane which delivered the weapon which played a role in ending World War II, lived in Rockdale for 20 years.

Encouragement

Leslie Levine once wrote, “We flourish under the benefits of encouragement and acceptance.” It’s true, and there is a deep need for it in every age. I am convinced that most failures in life are due to a lack of encouragement. A smile, a high five, a “I know you can do it!