LOOKING BACK

10-20-40-100 YEARS AGO 100 YEARS AGO… “Stop my paper for a few weeks,” said a loyal Reporter subscriber. “I have too many neighbors who just can’t do without The Reporter and who borrow my copy each week, sometimes before I get to read it myself.

New Year’s greetings from Milano

Happy New Year! It is time to start setting those resolutions! I hope everyone had a wonderful and blessed Christmas. My house was busy, chaotic, loud, and overflowing with love. I hope everyone survived the cold snap without much damage.

Black-eyed peas for good luck

I’m giving you a fairly standard black-eyed pea recipe so you’ll have good luck in 2023. The most important part, in my opinion, is to use some sort of smoked meat: ham hocks, sausage, turkey necks, ham, slab bacon, etc. It just needs to be smoked.

ORGANIZATIONS

Gospel of Life Church New Years Party Gospel of Life Church’s pastors Santos and Maria Gonzales announce their New Years Eve Experience and Praise Party with evangelist Sonia Bass on Saturday, Dec. 31 at 10 p.m. The church is located at 193 North FM 487. Heavenly Treasures closed through Jan.

It starts with you

We live close to a small community where my dad pastored a church a million years ago. After my family moved away the church building burned down and they relocated across town but eventually the church disbanded.

The land of Beginning Again

Iwish that there were some wonderful place Called the Land of Beginning Again Where all our mistakes and all our heartaches And all of our grief and sin Could be dropped like a shabby old coat by the door And never be put on again.

Oney Toy Run provides a Merry Christmas

The Buddy Oney Toy Run and The Bad To The Bone Riders presented checks all over Milam County this week so our less fortunate kids would be able to have a Merry Christmas. The group presented Jean Weed and the CPS Board with check for $1,575 in the top right photo.

Trail Life troop meeting

Trail Life Troop TX-1516 will meet at Meadowbrook Baptist Church the 2nd and 4th Monday every month. Trail Life is a Bible centered program for boys and their dads. It teaches them Biblical Manhood and deepens the relationship between father and son.

Senior Center, MARC Center Christmas lunches

ROCKDALE ROTARY—The Rockdale Rotary Club sponsored a Christmas luncheon for the Rockdale Senior Center members on Friday which was catered by Lee’s Landing.