Pandemic messes with Texas, prompts new message

Texas Department of Transportation officials noticed more personal protective equipment -- face masks, wipes and gloves -- on the side of roads and highways, so they called in the big guns for a new round of “Don’t mess with Texas” commercials.

Old Glory News

The rains have been wonderful. It seems that most of the Big Country received around from five to nine inches. It has really soaked in the dry ground. Thank God for the moisture. I love this kind of weather, the temp is so nice, It gives a person more energy and good feeling.

2 CENTS WORTH

Good morning to all my friends that read this newspaper, it's good to visit with you at home this morning. Buzz, Joe's son, is doing good in Lubbock, so we didn't have to travel back up there this week.

Faces & Places B

Part Two “When I shut up the heavens so that there is no rain, or command locusts to devour the land or send a plague among the people, if my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then will I hear from heaven and will...

The Welfare of All of Us

September 7 is Labor Day in 2020. September 7 also happened to be Labor Day in 1903. On that day, President Theodore Roosevelt gave a speech at the New York State Fair in Syracuse, New York.

TRAVELING THE COUNTRY

Running is like breathing to Dave Dial, who lives on the family ranch near the community of Grovetown, just outside of Crockett. In terms of lifetime running distance, Dave ranks number 9 and is moving up. He has run more than 203,000 miles.

A life of accumulating stuff

I heard once that the first half of our life is spent accumulating things, while the second half is getting rid of those very same things. In our case, time has been more heavily weighted to accumulation, while getting rid of them has been a more sudden and quicker event.

CHECK YOUR MIRRORS

CHAPTER 5 And seeing a ton of people, he went up the mountain; and when he got situated, his entourage came up to join him.

High-tech Lincoln Logs turn heads in Texas

Trees are almost as old as dirt in the construction industry, but they’re new to Texas in the form of the state’s first mass timber office building. The Texas project generating the buzz is The Soto, which opened last week at Eighth and Broadway streets in San Antonio.

CELEBRATE THE FOUNDATION OF AMERICA

WASHINGTON, DC -The National Society Daughters of the American Revolution urges Americans to reflect on the United States Constitution during this month's annual observance in honor this foundational document of national governance.