ROISD honors staff, alumni and family

RED OAK – The Red Oak Chamber of Commerce hosted the annual Founder’s Day parade and festival on Saturday, September 11 with the theme of Hometown Heroes tying to the 9-11 twentieth anniversary.The Chamber accepted nominations from the community to honor the heroes among us.

Red Oak native serves with one of the Navy’s newest tilt-rotor aircraft squadrons

SAN DIEGO – Petty Officer 2nd Class Asya Fuller, a native of Red Oak, Texas, serves the U.S. Navy as a member of Fleet Logistics Multi-Mission Squadron (VRM) 50 located in San Diego, California.Fuller joined the Navy 13 years ago.

COMICALLY INCORRECT by A.F. Branco (September 16, 2021)

OPINION: The withdrawal from Afghanistan was the biggest foreign policy blunder in American history

Since the collapse of Afghanistan and the re-ascension of the Taliban, comparisons have been made to the evacuation of Saigon in 1975.

FRONT-PORCH GOSPEL: Lost in Yellowstone (Chapter 8)

CHAPTER 8“Bear in the darkness.” Two nights in a row we slept in a bear meadow – perhaps ‘bear wilderness’ would say it better, even. But this one may have been more of a dangerous place to camp than the first.

OUT TO PASTOR: Are you ready for Fall?

With such a tumultuous summer, I’m glad we are now beginning the fall season. There for a while, I didn’t think it was going to come. But, contrary to my negativity, it has arrived, and I’m delighted.Summer wasn’t quite the way summers have been in the past.

ON THE JOB TRAINING (part 23)

And the disciples came and said to Him, “Why do You speak to them in parables?” He answered and said to them, “Because it has been given to you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it has not been given.

DPS: Three of Texas’ most wanted are now back in custody

AUSTIN – Three of Texas’ Most Wanted are back in custody following arrests earlier this month, including one fugitive and two sex offenders.Texas 10 Most Wanted Fugitive Xavier Montreal Benard was arrested Sept. 3 in Houston.

OFF MY MEDS by Les Taha (September 16, 2021)

FERRIS PUBLIC LIBRARY: More than Books (September 16, 2021)

As we celebrate Constitution Day on Sept. 17, 2021, The Concerned Women for America of Texas has given us pocketbook size copies of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States of America. This holiday commemorates the signing of the U.S.