GAUSE NEWS

Our family members and friends helped granddaughter Addy celebrate her third birthday with a party Saturday afternoon at our home. She had a blast but, of course, she’s always the center of attention being the youngest one around and she is precious to us. So glad they live next door.

MLK Parade set downtown 4 p.m. Sunday

QUICK LOOK Elias and Margaret Green will be grand marshals for Rockdale’s annual MLK Day Parade, set for 4 p.m. Sunday, the day prior to the actual Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day holiday. The parade forms at the corner of Ackerman and Cameron (US 79).

Holiday closings

Monday is the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. holiday and a number of businesses will be closed. Rockdale ISD, Thorn-dale ISD, Thorndale St. Paul’s, Milano ISD and Gause ISD students have a holiday. Financial institutions, the post office and the city library will be closed.

Bitmain: ‘We’re staying’

Despite what was literally a worldwide flurry of reports last week that Bitmain’s Rockdale project was somewhere between “on hold” and “dead in the water,” the project’s local facility manager says that’s definitely not the case and Bitmain is getting ready to begin preliminary tech work in about a...

Two months to go

The big day is getting closer. On March 13, a little less than two months away, Rockdale plans to move its police department three blocks east, and across the street, to the new building on the corner of Green and East Cameron (US 79).

Child porn indictment returned

CAMERON—A 46-year-old Rockdale man was indicted Thursday by a Milam County Grand Jury on two counts of promotion of child pornography and two counts of possession of child pornography. David Wayne Carter was one of 32 persons indicted on 40 counts, according to Prosecutor Bill Torrey. PROBE—Sgt. J.

Sunday sky spectacular on tap and it’s free!

There’s a sky spectacular for Rockdale residents, and the rest of the Western Hemisphere, on tap Sunday night. If the weather cooperates, that is. A total eclipse of the moon will offer just over an hour of totality in an event that has a lot going for it from our neck of the solar system.

Milam growing, new housing doubles

JUDGE’S COMMENTS As your new county Judge, I am compelled to thank Judge Dave Barkemeyer and our county commissioners, including Commissioner Opey Watkins, Donald Shuffield, John Fisher and Jeff Muegge for an excellent job of leading the county through eight of the toughest years since the Great...

HONOR ROLLS

Projects lift ‘18 to No. 2 building year

Permits for two colossal projects—the new Tiger Stadium and an 84-bed nursing home—rocketed 2018 to second place all-time for construction in Rockdale. The 2018 total was $11,374,309, second only to $30,877,029 in 2008.