To the Editor: Typically as we go through life we all form opinions. About most everything.

August 11-14, 1970 Six Southwest Texas State University students from La Grange were candidates for degrees: Helen W. Johnson, Georgia Wagner Hartley, Elizabeth Battelle, and Mary Ellen Battelle, Bachelor of Education; Willie J.

This fall is shaping up to be the most active hurricane season in the Atlantic ever, with the Atlantic having two hurricanes and 21 total storms as of August 7. It is taking shape as an extremely active season this year with many more storms predicted.

I’ve been thinking about what I’ve introduced to the world, or even to myself, lately. What new thought? What new idea? What new person have I met? What new emotion have I felt? What new action have I taken? Frankly, living in my cocoon of isolation I’ve become lazy: mentally and physically.

To the Editor: What is the Democratic party doing? People are very frustrated with all the protests and riots that are going on around the country and even here in the state of Texas. They are closing down sections of cities, burning government and private property and intimidating people.

To the Editor: I was so pleased to see the letter last week from Fayette County Republican Chairwoman Deborah Frank. She is certainly correct, the people who staffed the voting locations in the July 14 Democratic Party primary runoff deserve thanks and recognition.

To the Editor: In her letter last week, “Republicans Saved the Day,” Deborah Frank called me out (the Democratic Party Chair) for not acknowledging the Republican’s participation in the May 14 Runoff election. I was not contacted by the FCR to provide information for an article about the election.

To the Editor: During the months of this pandemic, my husband and I, who are in that stage of life known as “high risk’” have obediently stayed home. But once a week we drive around this beautiful county to explore unfamiliar roads.

Three white peacemakers nervously waited for the Comanche council to decide whether they lived or died on Aug. 10, 1843.

“Midway upon the journey of our life I found myself within a forest dark, For the straitforward pathway had been lost.” -opening lines of Dante’s Divine Comedy (Longfellow’s translation) At the outset of the Divine Comedy careful readers are presented with questions. Where did this story start? How did he get off the strait pathway? Did he not realize he was entering a creepy forest? Dante teases our curiosity by beginning in medias res…in the middle of things.