March 7-10, 1972 Citizen awareness had once again aided law enforcement officers in breaking a case in Fayette County; this one involved a second theft of tractors from Kleiber Ford Tractor Co. A Columbus man and two of his cousins from San Antonio were being held in the Fayette County Jail.

As I sit in my cocoon of spring weather, surrounded by beautiful flowers and in touch with friends I am shaken from my comfort by images of snow, bombed buildings, desperate women and children fleeing from the ravages of war, and men street fighting for their country.

A bill calling for the creation of Texas Canyons State Park was introduced in the Lone Star legislature on Mar. 2, 1933, but national status for Big Bend would be a long time coming.

They open up the entire world to a beginner. They instruct and guide children all the way through elementary, middle school, high school and college. There are clubs, libraries, stores, websites devoted to them. They are spiritual, informative, suspenseful and intriguing. Books have been with us for centuries.

The Texas Supreme Court heard oral arguments last week on the question of whether state regulators can be sued by abortion providers hoping to block enforcement of the state’s restrictive abortion law, known as Senate Bill 8.

Regular readers of my column know that I’m not a fan of turf grass. I hate mowing grass.

To the Editor: Attorney General Paxton recently released a 13-page legal opinion classifying transgender operations, puberty blocker drugs and sterilizing cross-sex hormones as child abuse. District Attorneys from Travis Co., Dallas Co., Bexar Co., Nueces Co., and Fort Bend Co.

To The Editor: Except for WWII and for what should have been a limited U.S. defensive posture in South Korea against a Red Chinese invasion south of the DMZ, the U.S.

I have to applaud Laurie Quitta and her article on Dr. Bill Nolen.

Two saddle tramps watched from the shadows of the Wichita Falls station on Feb. 25, 1896 as the Rangers boarded the one o’clock train for Fort Worth. With the state lawmen gone at last, the City National Bank was ripe for the taking.