Rep. Carl Sherman distributes masks

WILMER – The Wilmer Police Department was visited by District 109 State Representative Carl Sherman last week. Sherman handed off about 50 face masks to Wilmer’s Police Chief Victor Kemp.

Ooops, that will leave a scratch

Late Friday night/early Saturday morning, someone driving in the City of Ferris decided to take a shortcut while making a left turn from Birch onto 5th Street. Luckily, there was only a street/stop sign in the way – two weeks ago there would have also been a chain-link fence.

Bardwell’s Brayden DeBorde wins reserve grand champion bred-and-owned bull at the 2020 Texas Junior Angus Association State Show

BCD Guru 1923 won reserve grand champion bred-and-owned bull at the 2020 Texas Junior Angus Association State Show, June 6-7 in Belton, Texas. Brayden DeBorde, Bardwell, Texas, owns the March 2019 son of BLB Wanted B22. Clint Woodrow, Emporia, Kan., evaluated the 176 entries. 

TSTC ready to welcome students back

RED OAK – Students attending Texas State Technical College’s North Texas  campus will see differences in how they learn and interact as they start the fall semester on Monday, Aug. 31.

COMICALLY INCORRECT by A.F. Branco (August 13, 2020)

OP-ED: Paying people not to work is not an economic stimulus

Back in 2009, Nancy Pelosi infamously declared the best way to revive the economy was to dole out ever more generous food stamps and unemployment benefits. The more people are collecting welfare, the better. At the time, this notion seemed laughable.

OP-ED: The truth about ‘treasonous’ Confederate generals and turncoat Republicans

Prior to the 1960s, nearly everyone understood that the tariff was the main issue between the Northern Yankees who wanted a very high protectionist tariff and Southerners who wanted the country to be a free zone with limited import tariffs.

FRONT-PORCH GOSPEL: The Georgian who would’ve lived 89 years by faith

Welcome this week to the “front porch.”  A little more than a year ago, you and I shared the story of my dad, C. T. Bowen, on his eighty-ninth birthday. Now, a year and a half later, we pause together to say a word about my mama – Louise Bowen – as now she would’ve been eighty-nine, as well.

OUT TO PASTOR: Are homemade cookies addictive?

Some people say we are living in the “new normal.” I’m not sure exactly what they mean, and I don’t have the time to ask, nor the desire. If the “new normal” is what I’ve been experiencing in the parsonage for the last several months, I’m all for it.

This is what is taking place

What is truly sad, God is warning everyone what is coming and no one is listening or taking God seriously. It will not be until full blown disaster strikes that men turn to God, if then and the “if then” may be to late.