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Scalded dog or best of life?
Scalded dog or best of life?
To paraphrase an old movie, the United States is no country for old men. However, the entire population is ageing, and we want to make sure no immigrants come into the country, yet we expect someone to make life for us as smooth as banana pudding. We forget what a privilege it is to grow old. The aches, pains, and bruises, physical and otherwise: those checks eventually come due for us all. The question is are we going to approach it like a scalded dog or like Robert Browning told his future wife, “come and grow old with me as the best of life is yet to be” We also have now generations of young people raised on Iphones and social feeds that tell you how gloomy it is outside so don’t bother to go check for yourself. They think old people can’t possibly know anything as the computer knows all. I remember when I was a kid and men at the Cotton Gin store talked about debt and the depression. Later I recalled bankers in the years after 2001 saying they didn’t need to be regulated because the balanced derivative market was self regulating. After 2007, they blew up the world and the federal reserve had to print dollars by the trillions to avoid a collapse that would have taken us back to the stone age. 12/19/2024 08:21 AM
Agency seeks $300 million to bolster Medicaid
Agency seeks $300 million to bolster Medicaid
The Texas Health and Human Services Commission is seeking a $300 million transfusion of funds to bolster the state’s Medicaid application process, The Texas Tribune reported. The public health insurance program provides coverage for people or families with limited income, as well as pregnant women and people with disabilities. 12/19/2024 08:21 AM
Let’s go fishin’
Let’s go fishin’
The weatherman has kept us off the lake several days the past couple of weeks, but when we’ve been able to fish, we’ve caught some really nice BIG catfish! We have also been a bit selective as to where we fish when the wind or showers have been a little bit of an issue. Instead of making the long trip up the Richland Creek and fishing where we normally do this time of year, we’ve stayed near the marina and fished the coves and timber on the south shoreline. 12/19/2024 08:21 AM
Eagles compete in Fairfield tourney
Eagles compete in Fairfield tourney
The Fairfield Eagles competed in their own tournament Dec. 12-14 and went 2-3 over the weekend to move to 3-6 on the season. 12/19/2024 08:21 AM
Holiday traditions
Holiday traditions
One of my favorite stories is “A Christmas Carol” by Charles Dickens. How many other tales feature a miser, four ghosts, tombstones, and a goose? Actually, before I read this story I thought it was about somebody named Carol. 12/19/2024 08:21 AM
Letter to the Editor
Letter to the Editor
The words of America’s greatest president came to mind when I read the tiresome Letter to the Editor last week: “Better to be thought a fool by being silent than to remove all doubt by speaking [writing].” If I had very little understanding of 14th century Chinese society (I have none.), it would be foolish to presume in writing that what I wrote about it would be taken seriously. The Letter in question is just such an example - too full of vague and erroneous “facts” that make Kamala Harris’s word-salad nonsense seem clear. 12/19/2024 08:21 AM
Have a Merry Christmas!
Have a Merry Christmas!
Merry Christmas! I hope you all have a Merry Christmas with your family and friends. This is my favorite time of the year. 12/19/2024 08:21 AM
Nichols appointed mayor
Nichols appointed mayor
Mayor Pro Tem Bobby Nichols, who has served on the city council since 2019, was appointed the Fairfield mayor, effective Jan. 14, 2025, during the Tuesday, Dec. 12/19/2024 08:21 AM
County continues to spend down ARPA funds
County continues to spend down ARPA funds
Freestone County commissioners continue to spend down ARPA funds, aiming to deplete them by the deadline of Dec. 31, so the county does not lose any available funding. 12/19/2024 08:21 AM
Randall and Connie Whitaker love serving the community during the Christmas season and seeing the smiles on all the children’s faces. Photo by Mitchell Pate/Fairfield Recorder
Whitaker delivers as cutting-edge community member
Randall Whitaker has had some interesting occupations that have to do with delivery. The 1962 Fairfield High School graduate served from 1966-1970 in the United States Air Force. 12/19/2024 08:21 AM
Fairfield High School Band Director Russell Holland directs his jazz band during the Holiday in the Halls event at Fairfield High School last week. Photo by Mitchell Pate/Fairfield Recorder
Holiday in the Halls
Holiday in tHe Halls 12/19/2024 08:21 AM
TISD honors faculty, staff members
TISD honors faculty, staff members
All board members were present for a short Teague ISD school board meeting on Tuesday evening, Dec. 10. Teague ISD Band Director Cory Hiles and TISD Superintendent Chris Skinner recognized THS senior Hunter Fulmer for being the first student from Teague High School to advance to the state jazz competition. Out of 41 students at Area, he placed first. 12/18/2024 11:00 PM
Teague’s Tour of Homes
Teague’s Tour of Homes
Homes 12/18/2024 11:00 PM
Lions go 2-2 at Fairfield tourney
Lions go 2-2 at Fairfield tourney
The Teague Lions boys basketball club participated in the three-day Fairfield Tournament, which started on Thursday. They secured a pair of wins in four total games. 12/18/2024 11:00 PM
Phillip “Ray” Skinner
Phillip “Ray” Skinner
Graveside services for Phillip “Ray” Skinner, 67, were held on Wednesday, Dec. 18, at 11:30 a.m. at Greenwood Cemetery in Teague. 12/18/2024 11:00 PM
First for the first
First for the first
TISD Superintendent Chris Skinner recognizes Teague High School senior Hunter Fulmer for being the first ever THS student to advance to the state jazz competition at the TISD school board meeting. Also pictured is TISD Band Director Cory Hiles. 12/18/2024 11:00 PM
Have a merry Christmas
Have a merry Christmas
Merry Christmas! 12/18/2024 11:00 PM
Freestone County Reporter