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LAST QUEEN FOR A LIFETIME LAID TO REST Masses line the roads as Elizabeth is taken to castle for burial. Queen Elizabeth II’s coffin was lowered into the royal vault of St. George... — Updated 9/20/2022

YEARS LATER WORDS JUMP BACK AT ME Words you read from our Out of the Past section, 20-45-50 years etc, are words I wrote all those many years ago. I just rework them for today’s... — Updated 9/13/2022

WATCHING 9-11 AS IT UNFOLDED 21 YEARS AGO As I sit here on the 21st anniversary of 9-11, my mind goes back to that moment. I was sitting in the office, my feet propped on the desk,... — Updated 9/6/2022

ANOTHER LABOR DAY ROLLS AROUND Monday, September 5, is Labor Day. Over the years, Labor Day in our area was always a big day of celebration. Just a few years ago, before the Reagan... — Updated 8/30/2022

TOP SECRET DOCS NOT ACCIDENTAL Robinson Once Luther Theater Guest Eugene Robinson, a Washington Post columnist and associate Editor, has covered the White House for decades. In the... — Updated 8/23/2022

TIME ROLLS ON As you get older time does seem to go faster. You look at your 30-year-old Rolodex and over half of the people listed in it are now gone. That’s one reason why elder... — Updated 8/16/2022

TRUMP’S HOME IN FLORIDA SEARCHED Monday the FBI searched Trump’s Palm Beach, Florida home. The search, according to multiple people familiar with the investigation, approved to... — Updated 8/9/2022

COUNTY JUDGE TO FACE THE HEAT AT ROAST On August 4, the Bridge City Chamber of Commerce is having a "celebrity roast" of the head of county government. John Gothia is a longtime Bri... — Updated 7/26/2022

THE EAGLE HAS LANDED JULY 20, 1969 It was 1961, John F. Kennedy was the president of the United States. He wanted to land humans on the moon in that decade. The United States had... — Updated 7/19/2022

LEAVING HENRIETTA RECALLING SPECIAL TIMES GREAT FRIENDS AND A GOOD RUN On September 12, 2008, Hurricane Ike came ashore, completely overrunning Bridge City with water as high as six... — Updated 7/12/2022

HAPPY BIRTHDAY BRIDGE CITY Fifty-two years ago, July 7, the small community of Bridge City incorporated and the town of Bridge City, Texas was born. A young attorney named H.D.... — Updated 7/5/2022

TRUMP DIDN’T WANT TO DO ANYTHING ABOUT VIOLENCE AT CAPITOL The House Committee investigating the Capitol attack Jan. 6, 2021, held an abruptly scheduled hearing Tuesday with... — Updated 6/28/2022

FATHER'S DAY-JUNETEENTH APPROACHES THE DROUGHT CONTINUES Some mornings, about 6:30 a.m., Phillip Welch and I will visit on the phone while he travels to his school job at Kountze.... — Updated 6/14/2022

ACTOR McCONAUGHEY ASKING FOR ACTION For Matthew McConaughey, the May 24 shooting at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, that left 19 children and two teachers dead, is more than... — Updated 6/7/2022

UVALDE’S FAVORITE SONS THE TOWN IS GRIEVING Some people may not be aware that Uvalde has had two favorite sons. John Nance Garner, known as ‘Cactus Jack’ was a U.S. House... — Updated 5/31/2022

GUN BUYING BOOM IN U.S. Shooting Leaves Many Dead in Uvalde Texas Three days after a mass shooting in Buffalo, New York, that left 10 dead, a report was release by the Bureau of... — Updated 5/24/2022

BIDEN: ‘Evil will not win. Hate will not prevail’ Joe Biden is attacking the “hateful and perverse ideology” behind the Buffalo massacre: In America, evil will not win. I... — Updated 5/17/2022

GREMLINS GOT US LAST WEEK Last week universal broadsheet newsprint went into effect, meaning all broadsheet newspapers will be the same size. We were the last in this market to... — Updated 5/10/2022

WE COULD SEE IT COMING HIGH COURT MAY OVERTURN ROE The U.S. Supreme Court has taken a preliminary vote to overturn Roe v. Wade, the 1973 decision that has for 49 years guaranteed wo... — Updated 5/3/2022

MUSK ACQUIRES TWITTER Elon Musk reached an agreement to buy Twitter for roughly $44 billion on Monday. Musk said in a joint statement with Twitter that he wants to make the service... — Updated 4/26/2022

EASTER PRAYERS FOR UKRAINE The celebration of Holy Week in the Christian Faith, has only brought death and destruction to the people of Ukraine by Russia. Putin is outright... — Updated 4/12/2022

WHAT A COMEBACK KANSAS OVER NORTH CAROLINA We were having a Jayhawks watch party, pulling for Kansas to defeat North Carolina for the National College Basketball Championship. By... — Updated 4/5/2022

WHERE HAVE ALL MY FRIENDS GONE It's come on another week and again I'm not prepared to do a column. There are a lot of reasons that factor into that. First you have to make the cont... — Updated 3/29/2022

PUTIN CONTINUES TO INFLICT DEATH ON UKRAINIANS When and how will it end? Western officials and analysts say the conflict is turning into a grinding war of attrition, with Russian... — Updated 3/22/2022

OUR POPULARITY GROWS Over the last few weeks we have had increased demand for more papers. We increased our circulation last week by 800 more County and Penny Records at some of... — Updated 3/15/2022