To the Editor: Thank you Councilperson Gonzalez for asking questions related to Schmeckenfest, or anything for that matter. For the past few years, few Councilpersons have asked the City Manager or Mayor any questions related to anything.

To the Editor: Mr. DeLuca, spare me the hypocrisy.

To the Editor: Mr. Mikus, I give you FACTS on what our Constitution says, and you come back with what amounts to emotional blackmail with hysteria, shaming, and exaggeration.

Determined to succeed where his predecessor had failed, Texas Ranger Capt Lee Hall arrested King Fisher on five counts of murder on Nov. 19, 1877. Had the smartest outlaw in the Lone Star State finally run out of luck?

It was early July, and I was up to my elbows in chemicals utilized to process plates that would be used on printing presses to make letterhead, business cards, envelopes, and other products. It was 103 degrees. Until then, I had not given much thought to jobs after high school, but this first job experience jump started my thoughts about careers with cooler working conditions.

Texas topped 1 million COVID-19 cases as some counties reimposed restrictions that had been loosened after this summer’s spike. Particularly hard-hit El Paso extended its temporary shutdown of nonessential businesses, but the Texas Eighth Court ofAppeals ruled 2-1 Friday to block County Judge Ricardo Samaniego’s order.

After nine months of hearing about the coronavirus, it finally hit home. I have joined a club of more than 700 Fayette County people who have tested positive for the coronavirus since March.

With today’s article I’ll be reaching into the question box for a few shorter questions that wouldn’t fill an entire article on themselves. The first one is about the difference between hurricanes and cyclones (Side note: I know I talk alot about hurricanes but with all of the questions about it and the once in a lifetime season we are having for hurricanes this year how could I possibly not talk about them) which is a lot less than you would think. So to lay out the complex and overly scientific yellow tape with names for weather phenomena here’s it boiled down. Tropical Storm/ Cyclones are the correct nomenclature for what we would call hurricanes and what the Indian and South Pacific Oceans calls Cyclones and what the North Pacific Ocean calls Typhoons. Tropical Storm/Cyclone is the world wide agreed upon name, used in scientific papers or international warnings. The next question is another one about different nomenclature with something I hadn’t heard of before, Derechos. Derechos are one of the many names for squall lines or even Blue Northers. Basically Derechos are extremely strong storms on strong fronts that have extremely strong straight line wind (wind blowing all in one direction) which is actually more dangerous than tornadoes in the US because of its ability to throw cars, blow out windows or just flatten buildings, not to mention the torrential rain they bring in a short about of time. They are more prone to happen in conjunction with large heat waves during the spring and summer, like what happened Memorial Day 2015 with the large amount of flooding and strong storms was a Derecho looking back at the radar images. While tornadoes can form in these types of storms they would usually form on the southern ends of these lines where you have the most amount of mixing of the atmosphere which could create tornadoes. Lastly we have one more question about Dust Devils (no not the vacuum cleaner) and what they are. Dust Devils, Dirt Devils, whatever you call them are all just whirlwinds, or small vertically rotating columns of air that are relatively short lived, 1-20 minutes . These types of whirlwinds are more common than you would think, you can’t see most of them because they don’t have any particles of dust or dirt in them so they are pretty much invisible. These aren’t very damaging to houses or cars, with winds up to 45 mph, but it wouldn’t be that fun for us unless you like getting sandblasted.

Nov. 17-20, 1970 Two local youths were apprehended in connection with Wednesday night’s break-in at Dairy Mart No.

One thing I’m certain that we can all agree on, is that this year has been quite different, to say the least. One thing that will be a bit different this year is that Tejas Camp and Retreat Center will not be doing their traditional “Lights of Tejas” event. However, you will have the opportunity to enjoy many of the things you have come to love about attending Camp Tejas during the holidays.