Veterans Day

Important things to remember about the day we honor all service members You already know why Veterans Day is important. You are the service members, veterans or family and friends of veterans who stay up-to-date on military news, pay, benefi ts, fitness and veteran jobs.

LOOKING BACK

10-20-40-100 YEARS AGO 100 YEARS AGO… The carnival given by the Rockdale High School last week was very successful. About $200 was added to the school fund.

Milam County Moot Court a big success

We just completed our fourth Milam County Moot Court competition. Milam County is the only county in Texas that produces and sponsors such an event. Moot Court requires each participant to make an oral argument regarding the legal issues of a fictitious case to a panel of three judges.

Grass roots

Veterans Day had its start in a small town from the heartland Care to guess in what city the movement which led to Veterans Day being celebrated had its origins? Washington, D. C.? New York City? Boston? No and you’d probably guess a while unless you already knew the answer. It’s Emporia, Kansas.

What can we do to draw folks to town?

We need a reason for people to visit Rockdale again and again. That was the consensus of Leadership Rockdale’s meeting last Thursday. And we need to have all of Rockdale’s organizations working together to achieve this goal. Maybe it’s a once-peryear thing?

LOOKING BACK

10-20-40-100 YEARS AGO Mr. and Mrs. N.M. Bullock threw open the doors of their spacious home, where Miss Johnny Cone entertained the Epworth League with a Halloween party. The decorations were in regular Halloween colors of orange and black.

A story for the season from Transylvania

(Enjoy this “punny” story from 2010 from Publisher Emeritis Bill Cooke.) In keeping with the season of Jack-O-Lanterns, costume contests, Halloween trick-or-treating and Fall Festivals, here’s a story you will find timely and entertaining.

Junior High ‘B’ lunch + iPhone = suspect

At last Tuesday night’s town hall meeting at the Junior High Commons, it was revealed that the identity of the student who air dropped the threatening text on October 11, which closed all RISD campuses, has not yet been discovered.

Fair notebook: Goutburgers and Evel

(A timely 2010 Fair remembrance from our late editor Mike Brown.) First you’ve got to understand there are many people who work much harder than me at the Rockdale Fair.

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