Cold weather dogs and a new bathrobe

It was way too cold over Christmas, and I didn’t enjoy the weather at all. I’m already ready for spring. Our dogs are outside dogs and don’t really like being inside except when it’s too cold.

A dreary world if there were no Santa

Dear editor, I am 8 years old. Some of my little friends say there is no Santa Claus. Papa says, “If you see it in The Sun it’s so.” Please tell me the truth; is there a Santa Claus? Virginia O’Hanlon 115 W. 95 St. Vi rginia, your l it t le friends are wrong.

Happy birthday Jesus

Merr y Christmas or Happy Holidays if you are angry. Maybe it’s vice versa. I’m not sure anymore. Either way we are all celebrating the birth of Jesus regardless of how we feel about Jesus. I hope that makes sense.

Looking back...

100 YEARS AGO… Rockdale decided to enter the Brazos River Reclamation Association. The decision was reached at a meeting in the Chamber of Commerce rooms, which was attend by about 50 citizens of Rockdale, Cameron, Gause, San Gabriel and Tracy. Mr. B. Ashby, manager of the Rockdale Motor Car Co.

MSCO Awards

The Milam County Sheriff’s Office awarded many in the department Milam County Sheriff’s Office celebrated our outstanding employees over the last two days at our annual Christmas parties that also served as our awards banquets.

Rockdale: no longer coal mining town

(A column from former editor Mike Brown about a day that no Rockdalian will ever forget: Friday the 13th, 2017.) There’s no way to sugar coat or spin this one. The closing of Luminant’s Sandow 4 and 5 power plant units is a body blow to Rockdale and Milam County.

Brady’s Pest Control saves Reporter’s day

Boy did we ever have a frantic morning at The Reporter last Wednesday. After being a good and faithful servant for many years, our old dot matrix printer which we use for the mailing labels for the paper, decided to bite the dust. We didn’t know how we were going to get all the subscriptions out.

Dear editor

Dear editor, On Friday, I had the honor to watch the Coffee House Showcase at Rockdale High School. For those who were not able to attend, man did you miss out! All of the performers did and fantastic job! However, what I want to share with you all is what else I saw.

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Dear editor, The saying, “it takes a village,” has been used so much in recent years, that perhaps it has become cliché, losing some of its profound truth. Virtually all of life reminds us that we live in community and in relationship with all that is around us.

I’m the luckiest boy in the world!

With a 50 percent divorce rate in the US in 2022, I am very lucky to still have both my parents alive at their ages and for them to still be married. In fact, they will celebrate their 64th anniversary on December 21. Sixty-four years of wedded bliss.