Easter has come and gone, the black patent leather shoes purchased and worn, a new dress bought and shown off on Easter Sunday, the fake grass filled multicolored basket put away on the top shelf in the back closet, most of the colored eggs hidden in the yard found and broken, the chocolate rabbit’s ears eaten, and the local Easter Egg Hunt a memory.

To the Editor: Thank you so much for spreading the word of our Easter egg hunt at Camp Lost Pines. Thanks to your newspaper and other businesses contributions, our hunt was a big success.

To The Editor: In response to Glynis Tietjen’s letter in last Friday’s Letters to the Editor, I find her points regarding issues of sex gender, sex change, trans, and woke, interesting and thought provoking. However, I must take issue with a couple of statements.

The career of Tom “Black Jack” Ketchum, the most successful train robber in the Old West, reached the end of the line on Apr. 26, 1901. Kicked out of his own gang, the hard-bitten badman made the fatal mistake of trying to go it alone.

I love growing beans. Green beans, dry beans, lima beans, field peas, yard-long beans – I love them all.

Gov. Greg Abbott halted the state’s aggressive truck inspection at all Texas border crossings after days of bipartisan criticism over the extended delays of goods entering the United States.

Last Sunday, I was having lunch with three friends from church. We were talking about various subjects when a younger member of our party asked, “What did you think about what happened at the Academy Awards?” I didn’t know that the Oscars had happened until I read in the paper that an actor had slapped another actor (who I had never heard of) and it became the news of the day squeezing out more important news like the war in Ukraine … which does concern me.

April 18-21, 1972 Following an exhausting threehour meeting, trustees of the La Grange Independent School District announced several changes to the dress code. The trustees passed a new, stronger hair and dress code rule to augment the one they had rolled out the previous week.

Recently I was in the middle of a discussion about whether women have ruled societies is a myth or has it been a reality in our long-ago history? I’ve found there are lots of books, essays, opinion pieces, and thought-provoking ideas about whether the world was once governed by women, and if so what impact it had on those cultures. You may be asking ‘who cares?’ And that in itself is another subject open to debate and exploration.

To the Editor: A response to last week’s letter: Hurtful? Oh, please. If we’re going to open that can of worms, how hurtful do you think it is to an actual female swimmer who has spent her whole life - untold hours - preparing to swim at the NCAA level, only to have the rules changed when she finally accomplishes her goal so that she is now competing against a man who wants to compete against women? Because that’s what it is.