MILAM SHERIFF’S DEPARTMENT CALLS

Calls for the Milam County Sheriff’s Department during the past week were listed as follows: Jan.

MILAM COUNTY JAIL LOG

Here is the Milam County Jail Log for Jan. 7-13. Jail logs list all persons charged with offenses through the county jail docket. Charges may change during the process. Persons are presumed innocent until convicted in a court of law.

FIRE CALLS

Fire calls for the Rock-dale VFD over the past week included: • 8:43 p.m. Jan. 8, report of “something burning” west of Rockdale, turned out to be controlled burn. • 12:56 p.m. Friday, grass fire between FM 486 and FM 908, was an unreported controlled burn. • 8:59 p.m.

Permits went ‘through the roof’ in ‘19

The year just past would have been a pretty decent one for building inside the city limits, but what happened on April 6 turned it into a “top 10” eff0rt.

First Lions soup supper set Thursday

QUICK LOOK The first of two Noon Lions Club’s soup suppers is set for 5 to 7 p.m. Thursday at the junior-high commons. Those suppers, an annual January event, have changed considerably for 2020, compared to past years.

Rollercoaster of a decade

Want to know how far up and how far down the 2010s took Rockdale? Just look at the faces. It’s stunning that the low point and high point of a rollercoaster 3,655-day decade should have come within a mere 69 days of each other in the fall of 2017.

Sentencing Thursday for ‘corpse tampering’

CAMERON—A Caldwell man accused of helping to dispose of the body in the Emily Hacker murder case is scheduled to be sentenced Thursday in 20th District Court, according to Prosecutor Bill Torrey. Kevin Cormier was never charged with the murder of the 34-year-old Rockdale resident on Jan.

Cow-Calf Clinic ahead Thursday

CAMERON—Central Texas Cow/Calf Clinic will be held Thursday at the Milam County Youth Exposition Building, 301 South Houston in Cameron, according to County Agent Floyd Ingram.

Boniello hearing delayed

CAMERON—A pre-trial hearing for a Rockdale resident accused of squeezing a 20-month-old infant, scheduled for Friday in 20th District Court, has been delayed.