New POSGCD program for water wells

The board of directors for Post Oak Savanna Groundwater Conservation District announced a new program for plugging unused wells at their last meeting.

FARMER’S MARKET—

FARMER’S MARKET

QUICK LOOK

Milam County CPS fundraiser set for Saturday A six-foot f lamingo may appear in your yard soon because the Milam County Child Protective Services Flamingo Fundraiser starts on Saturday as part of April’s Child Abuse Prevention Month.

Residents dump 36 tons of trash Saturday

Rockdalians got serious with their spring cleaning on Saturday and filled up nine 30-cubicfoot containers with trash at city’s spring Stash Your Trash event at Fair Park. This equates to 36 tons of trash.

AND THE WINNER IS—

AND THE WINNER IS

GRAND RE-OPENING—

GRAND RE-OPENING

Attributing human characteristics to God

Ihave always enjoyed and been inspired, comforted and challenged by the anthropomorphisms of the Old Testament, the manner in which the biblical authors attributed human characteristics and traits to God.

Empty the jar

We have this blue Mason jar that sits on a shelf in our tiny Polly Pocket home. At the end of the day we put all our loose coins in that jar. In today’s culture we don’t use much cash so the jar has stayed pretty much at the same level for years now.

Math, science students advance to UIL regionals

Milano Academic UIL competed in Brenham March 24. Advancing to regionals are the mathematics team and one member of the Science team. Congratulations to all students that competed. Academic contests don’t get the fans—or cheerleaders— but they need to be recognized.

Smothered pork chops and ribs

Smothered food is soul food and there are a lot of different kinds of smothered dishes. We’ve probably all had smothered steak and one point or another, but even shrimp etouffee is considered a smothered food.