Opinion

By 1969-70, the new auditorium was added and named, Bailey Auditorium, in honor of the previous High School principal and superintendent, John Bailey, and his wife, Kate Bailey, senior English teacher. When someone makes a good impression over a long period of time, they might get a building named after them. There you have two good examples in the Breckenridge ISD of the L.T. Cook Gym and Bailey Auditorium.

The number of traffic accidents decreased in 2020, but the number of Texans killed while not wearing a seat belt increased by 16%, according to the Texas Department of Transportation.

It’s been cold the last few days, but I really didn’t expect it to snow in the living room. It did. The circumstances behind the white dusting are easy to explain.

Life doesn’t come with a manual; it comes with a mother. Thanks Momma. Thank you for teaching me to read the instructions. Thanks for allowing my own interpretation of those instructions. Thank you for being the example of a strong, independent, intelligent woman. Thank you for loving me, even if it was, or still is, hard to do sometimes.

To understand the complexity of Stephens County schools, one has to look at the census population of Jan. 1, 1920, which was 1,500 people. Even though the oil was discovered as early as 1916-17, it didn’t really get big notice until 1919-1920. By 1921, there was a population of more than 30,000 people living in tents as far as one could see and many slapped up wooden structures to serve as temporary homes for other workers in the town of Breckenridge.

It is a near certainty that Texans will be allowed to carry handguns without a license in the near future as House Bill 1927 passed both chambers and heads to a conference committee to hash out amendments added in the Senate version.

My friend, my significant other, my “old man boyfriend,” has lost his cap. It is no small, insignificant situation … as I realized tonight when he prayed before dinner “… and Father help us to find things we have lost.” I laughed. “We” were not amused.

By the 1870s, there were more than 100 schools established in the rural areas of Stephens County. At first, there was a private school taught by N. L. Bartholomew, who was killed and scalped by a small group of Indians, as he was hunting for his hobbled horse in the foothills of western Stephens County.

As I am writing this column, the television in the living room is beeping, a “crawl” of information is moving across the top of the screen, and the map of the area is taking up a large portion of the northwest side of the picture. With closed captioning and the station logo crowding in, I can hardly see Nora O’Donnell trying to give the national news.

Hannah Green had a successful kidney transplant! That’s wonderful news! She competed in her event at the regional meet and then was called to Houston. She remains in our prayers but all went well.