OUT OF THE PAST—

It was called the “dinky,” it was familiar to generations of Rockdale and Milam County residents in decades gone by and it’s now part of the elaborate layout at the Milam County Railroad Museum, 101 West Main in downtown Cameron.

Cameron police make arrest after search

SHERIFF’S REPORT Cameron Police executed a narcotics-related search warrant just before 6 a.m. Saturday at a home in the 1700 block of West Fourth in that city. The raid came on the heels of a narcotics trafficking investigation led by Sgt. Kris Stringer.

MILAM COUNTY JAIL LOG

Here is the jail log for May 1-7 from the Milam County Sheriff’s Department. 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.

Two die Tuesday in Milano wreck

Two persons died at sunrise Tuesday in a US 79 crash near Milano, bringing the total of Rock-dale-area highway fatalities in the last two months to fi ve. According to the DPS, an eastbound Chevrolet Cruze crossed the center strip 1.

Judge: County tax revenue down $1.7M

CAMERON—Milam County has its certification of 2018 preliminary values and it’s not good news, according to County Judge Dave Barkemeyer. Barkemeyer said, even at the same 70-cent county tax rate, revenues look to be down about $1.7 million.

First Friday, film to honor music week

QUICK LOOK National Music Week is Sunday through May 13 and Rockdale’s Matinee Musical Club has a couple of events for the public this weekend, including a free movie at the historic Kay Theatre. The music club is sponsoring a showing of the classic “Mary Poppins” at 2 p.m. Sunday.

It’s ‘pick em’ time Saturday

Voters in the City of Rockdale and Rockdale ISD will decide contested races Saturday while for the second time in a year’s time span, Thorn-dale ISD residents have the fate of a multi-million dollar bond issue in their hands.

Fatal wreck in Milano on Monday

A 36-year-old Needham, Alabama, man became the Rockdale area’s third highway fatality in just under two months before dawn on Monday. According to the Department of Public Safety, Douglas Brooks was pronounced dead at the scene, US 79 in front of Milano Cefco, after the 3:30 a.m. accident.

Volunteers more than ‘O-Kay’

It sat vacant much longer than it was used. But in 2004 a group of volunteers and supporters teamed up to begin the task of turning Rockdale’s Kay Theatre into a showpiece. They were honored Sunday with a ceremony and plaque unveilings that turned back the clock 70 years.

Former treasurer assessed probation

CAMERON—Milam County’s former treasurer, who resigned last September after a sheriff’s department investigation into a situation involving a fund in her office, received a fi ve-year deferred adjudication probation sentence Tuesday in 20th District Court.