WRITER'S CORNER

When the world gets heavy and the burden too much for me I retreat to that childhood place My grandparents home, I see. And I am free. Sometimes I go back to those wonderful years whenever the pain gets too great. To rest my weary soul awhile up in the tree house, above the back gate.

Wildfires continue across state

Firefighters are looking to the skies for much-needed rain this week as crews continue battling wildfires across the state. Fires reported Sunday by the Texas A&M Forest Service were being fought in Brown, Taylor, Wilbarger, Llano, Schleicher and San Saba counties.

Opinion: ‘Midland, not Moscow!’ — Texas offers a global antidote to Moscow’s aggression

Just as the Texas Revolution gave rise to the battle cry, Remember the Alamo, today’s energy crisis gives rise to another — Midland, not Moscow. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the subsequent international realignment of energy exports transformed a regional war into a global energy emergency.

2 CENTS WORTH

Sad day in the Greenway Household the Good Lord took our granddaughter home with him, leaving three precious great grandkids without a Mom, but oh how that Mom had suffered so the Good Lord was good to us.

The Meaning of Community

“A community is the mental and spiritual condition of knowing that the place is shared, and that the people who share the place define and limit the possibilities of each other’s lives.

TAMALE THURSDAYS IN FORT STOCKTON

Every Thursday a store in Fort Stockton sells tamales. “We start cooking our tamales at one o’clock in the morning,” says JB Gallegos, owner of The Comanche Tortilla and Tamale Factory. “I come in, put them in the steamer and at seven o’clock they’re ready to go.

CHECK YOUR MIRRORS

Since 1991, Ukraine has been an independent country—one with almost eighty million acres of farmland.

WRITER'S CORNER

No matter how hard Satan uses depression to press down on us, God is there to pull us through it. No matter how much we feel defeated we know there is victory in Jesus our Lord and Savior. No matter how high or low the water gets Jesus is our anchor.

A take on the headlines

While this week’s edition offered a smaller space to share editorial commentary, I figured I would weigh in briefly on a few headline-grabbing events, of which there have been several in recent months.

2 CENTS WORTH

I thought sure we were going to get rain last night, thunder sounded good, but no rain, might have been a sprinkle but that was it. Talked to my son, Jay, and he got an inch on one place and 6 tenths on the other place and the barn.