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I’ve been thinking about walls, fences, enclosures, anything that keeps us separated and often isolated. And I wonder if we feel the need for protection or privacy? As a child I remember fences were rare unless someone was attempting to keep chickens in the backyard.

When Belle Starr retired for the night on Feb. 2, 1889, she had no way of knowing that the twilight ride planned for the next day would be her last.

Since 2020, we all have been living with the Pandemic and its impact, and while we now have readily available vaccines to minimize the severity of COVID-19, it is still heavily impacting our community and the St. Mark’s Medical Center (SMMC) team. I continue to be in awe of everyone at SMMC for how they have represented us — tirelessly encouraging prevention, providing treatment and rehab, and comfort — for our patients and their families, and each other. As I reflect on 2021, I also

Less than a week remains before the Jan. 31 deadline to register to vote in the March 1 primary. While Secretary of State John Scott publicly assured Texas voters that “every single eligible Texas voter will be able to register to vote if they have not done so already,” the League of Women Voters on Friday threatened to sue his office if the nonpartisan group isn’t provided with additional voter registration forms.

I’m back in isolation, historically a comfort to spinster ladies and ancient crones. Literature is full of them. I need mention only Emily Dickinson, whose isolation was not quite as solitary as mine.

To The Editor: These are not my words, rather they are paraphrased from Tony Evans: The agenda of the church? Our society is not changing for the good today. Why? Because the church has settled for buildings and programs instead of accessing the authority of the kingdom and power of the Holy Spirit.

To The Editor: I attended a political forum at Sengelman’s in Schulenburg, the first in a series allowing voters a dialogue with county candidates for office in 2022 elections. This assembly was moderated by Retired Air Force Fighter Pilot Dennis Geesaman of Flatonia.

To The Editor: Who knew that having one’s right to their personal health choices forcible taken away would happen in America? It does beat all sadly. Sandy Hooper La Grange.

Jan. 25-28, 1972 A hog cholera quarantine area was extended to include 55 South and Central Texas Counties, including Fayette, Colorado, Bastrop, Blanco, Caldwell, Gillespie, Guadalupe, Hays and Kendall.

I’ve been called lots of things, but sophisticated is not a term commonly used to describe my character, my humor, or my behavior. After all, I was born in Oklahoma and grew up in Texas.