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No cases of coronavirus reported in county

No cases of coronavirus reported in county

Thu, 03/12/2020 - 12:00am

Our Milam County Health Department is carefully monitoring the coronavirus. We are happy to advise there are no reported cases in Milam County. Your health department is working closely with state and federal officials, the schools and local health providers to do everything we can to prevent the spread of the virus. However, the virus is in Texas and each of us must take precautions to prevent its spread.

A ‘Go-To Guy’

Thu, 03/12/2020 - 12:00am

Wt the Rockdale City Council hired 25-year U.S. Army veteran Chris Whittaker as city manager in December, 2014, some wry observer—looking at Whittaker’s logistics efforts in war-devastated Iraq—joked that probably Rockdale was the perfect place for him.

Looking back...

Thu, 03/05/2020 - 12:00am

100 YEARS AGO.... Rockdale volunteer firefighters didn’t have to hunt for an early morning fire call. It was the home of Fire Chief J. P. Perry. “I never realized until this morning how good it felt to hear that fire truck drive up,” Perry told The Reporter.

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