Opinion

My granddaughters are coming tomorrow for an overnight visit. I can hardly wait. They texted me from their other grandma’s this afternoon. They’ve been at her house on the lake for a few days, and I’m not sure whether they asked to come, or she suggested it. I figure she might need a break. 

I had a friend tell me a little while ago that he got snookered by a scammer. I made a note of it because another newspaper customer a while back had mentioned he got a similar phone call. 

Here’s the set up — they both got a phone call saying it was from their grandson in jail in another town. I think one said he was in Abilene. For both gentlemen, the caller used the grandson’s name and sounded very upset.

Sobering lessons sometimes occur when we are caught between the unforgiving jaws of reality. The “clamped down and locked position” is preferable, though, to jaws grinding away for the next bite of life.

In such situations, our prayers may hit the ceiling with a thud.  At the thought of the next step--big time chewing--we are apt to seize the moment, ready to make a deposit into our memory bank of bitter experiences.

The Environmental Protection Agency’s new methane emissions regulations have drawn criticism from the oil and gas industry and a growing number of members of Congress.

EPA finalized the regulations on May 12, and industry quickly responded that the massive regulations will be burdensome financially and that it will take many man-hours to come into compliance with the information demanded.

Clyde is not the most evocative of Texas town names, and residents might even have found it somewhat embarrassing during the reign of Depression-era outlaws Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow. The Callahan County community got its name from one Robert Clyde, a railroad construction crew foreman who operated a commissary in the vicinity when the Texas and Pacific laid tracks through that part of West Texas in December 1880. A year later, enough folks had settled in the area to support a post office that Washington approved designating as Clyde.

The family of Bradley Horton wishes to thank all of the ones that brought food and attended the memorial luncheon.

Thanks to Live Oak Baptist Church for furnishing us a place to have it. Also to Bro. Gayle Baucum for his kind words and prayers. 

We shall forever be grateful.

Horton Family

Earthquakes are scary. 

Thoughts of the earth moving and shaking hard enough to knock pictures off the wall or even so violently as to bring down tall office buildings frighten everyone.  Unlike hurricanes or tornadoes, earthquakes are virtually impossible to accurately predict, and happen without warning.

Some people believe there is a correlation between earthquakes and the oil and gas industry in Texas.  Others, however, point out that correlation does not equal causation, and there has been no scientific evidence linking the two. 

Logically, the first person to realize that Galveston could claim a long list of Texas, national and even international “firsts” was someone who would now be called a chamber of commerce marketing person. It could have been an enterprising newspaper reporter on a slow news day, but even if that were the case, the Galveston Chamber of Commerce was the first to tout the city’s many firsts.