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Spectacular sales tax start

News Staff
Thu, 02/14/2019 - 00:00
If the February sales tax checks are any indication, 2019 just might be the year for which the City of Rockdale and Milam County have been waiting. Rockdale is up 8.54 percent for the month and 12.10 percent for the year-to-date. And Milam County is up an astonishing 29.

Stairway to heaven

News Staff
Thu, 02/14/2019 - 00:00
In a week which saw 80-dgree temperatures, sleet and snow flurries, something wonderful happened. The tulip tree at the steps of St.

Donkey cage game ahead for Saturday

News Staff
Thu, 02/07/2019 - 00:00
QUICK LOOK Rockdale High School Rotary Interact is sponsoring a donkey basketball game at 6 p.m. Saturday at RHS. Proceeds will go to Milam County Pack Pals, which provides nutritious food for children.

Texting 9-1-1 service will be available

News Staff
Thu, 02/07/2019 - 00:00
Starting next week, residents served by the Central Texas Regional 9-1-1 Program will be able to text that number to get emergency help.

Health care back in Rockdale

News Staff
Thu, 02/07/2019 - 00:00
Rockdale’s two-month stretch without any health facilities is ending. Dr. Jeremiah Havins, a cardiologist who has been seeing patients in a Thorndale clinic, told The Reporter on Tuesday he had signed a lease for part of the clinic building at 602 North Main earlier in the day.

Probation in Milano Booster Club thefts

News Staff
Thu, 02/07/2019 - 00:00
CAMERON—A 41-year-old Milano woman was convicted last week on a theft charge after she was accused of taking over $8,000 last fall from the Milano Athletic Booster Club.

No filings for ballots

News Staff
Thu, 02/07/2019 - 00:00
The filing pace for the May 4 city and school elections remained ice cold during the past week with no one filing for any race in Rock-dale, Milano or Thorndale. With the Feb. 15 filing deadline there’s on one face, for the Milano School Board.

COMMUNITY CALENDAR

News Staff
Thu, 02/07/2019 - 00:00
Proudly sponsored by: 221-225 E. Cameron • Rockdale 512/446-5838 • Fax 512/446-5317 www.rockdalereporter.com THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 7 • Milam County Republican Women annual banquet, 6 p.m., Cameron VFW. • Senior Exercise, 10:30 a.m., Senior Center, 446-2666.

Cases cleared in 20th District Court

News Staff
Thu, 02/07/2019 - 00:00
CAMERON—In addition to the conviction of a Milano woman for taking money from the Milano Booster Club (see story, page 1A) district court action was listed as follows by Prosecutor Bill Torrey: • Roberto Cardoza, 28, Cameron, was sentenced to a six-year prison term after a jury previously found him...