Columns & Opinions

3rd state title game involved no work for me

News Staff

Wed, 01/10/2018 - 16:15

There are a few of us old hides still around that experienced all three of Rockdale’s trips to the UIL state finals in football. First one was in 1962, at what is now the UT-Arlington stadium. I was on the sideline with a camera for that one, in my third year as this paper’s “news editor.

Supermoon, don’t say I didn’t warn you

News Staff

Wed, 01/10/2018 - 16:15

It’s probably useless but I can do no more than my duty, especially since my favorite magazine’s founding mission statement was “to stand athwart history and cry ‘stop’.

Thank POSGCD board members for service

News Staff

Wed, 01/03/2018 - 13:17

This past week in commissioners court we voted on candidates for new four year terms on the Post Oak Savannah Groundwater Conservation District Board of Directors.

2018: Cheerfulness always breaks through

News Staff

Wed, 01/03/2018 - 13:16

Funny how the simple act of the year turning over into a new one can make us a little queasy. I suppose the reasons are obvious. Seeing the numbers change reminds us of our own mortality.

Bye, 2017

News Staff

Wed, 12/27/2017 - 17:00

If a year could be said to have been bipolar, 2017 was that year for Rockdale and its residents. Talk about going to the highest highs and the lowest lows. And all in a period of 11 weeks.

Thanks Metroplex, I’ll take the country

News Staff

Wed, 12/27/2017 - 16:58

At this fall’s town hall meeting to discuss annexation, a comment reverberated in my head and stayed with me. “There’s a reason some of us choose to live in the country.” Yes.