Porches. I’ve wondered if they are a phenomenon of small towns and rural communities of the 19th century or have they been around for eons? You don’t see many porches in large metropolitan areas.

To the Editor: We have been told we need to have a serious debate on racial issues that have been causing protest and riots across our great country. I agree, however there seems to be an effort to limit debate to only one side of the issue.

To the Editor: My wife and I are chuckling because today is a first for us. We have been married going on forty years and find this amazing since we, apart from many common interests, so vehemently disagree over political issues.

To the Editor: After reading my own opinion piece in last week’s paper I wanted to clarify something that, due to my failed attempt at brevity, I wasn’t able to develop sufficiently. Here is what I did not mean: I did not mean that there are no Christians in the public school system.

To the Editor: In last Friday’s Record, a gentleman from Schulenburg apparently believes that Fayette County lives in a bubble that protects the people of Fayette County (other than the elderly) from this pandemic. His opinion is based upon his comparison of last year’s death rate for flu cases to this year’s death rate for corona virus cases as of July 3, 2020, which made him curious about the “level of hysteria of this narrative versus the surrender of civil liberties and the cost to livelihoods and mental health.” Unfortunately since Tuesday, the Texas Tribune reported: that a record 3,851 people were hospitalized for the coronavirus in the Houston region alone, exceeding normal intensive care capacity; that in Houston, as coronavirus cases surge, inundating hospitals and leading to testing shortages, a rapidly growing number of Houston-area residents are dying at home, according to a review of Houston Fire Department data; and that an increasing number of these at-home deaths have been confirmed to be the result of COVID-19, Harris County medical examiner data shows.

To the Editor: The La Grange city council on July 13, 2020 was given an educated opportunity to base their decision of whether to enact an emergency ordinance for the city requiring the wearing of face masks, from several members of the community that attended the council meeting. The council chose to follow in the foot steps of the unconstitutional executive order by way of enacting the emergency ordinance.

To the editor: In the spirit of complimenting other writers of letters to the editor, I liked Katelyn Bernsen’s (15) use of science, rather than tactics (including rants and spitting that have gone viral) some people have used to challenge mask wearing. She noted that experts are uncertain how effective masks are.

Twenty-eight year old James Babbage Wells, Jr. arrived at the southern tip of Texas on Jul.

I loved catching fly balls with my glove. Trouble was there never were too many kids around when I did get a chance to do so. My only ball-throwing companion was my cousin Jimmy Kana, who was about two years younger than me. He was a pretty stout youngster and could really hit long fly balls. We had a problem because whenever he did try to hit fly balls for me to catch, he hit more foul tips and ground balls than fly balls. I spent more time chasing these errant hits than I did actually catching fly balls. I figured I could grow old waiting for a good one to catch. Therefore, I put my ever-expanding brain to use and came up with an ingenious gadget that would guarantee a great fly ball every time.

AUSTIN — Gov. Greg Abbott has again suspended elective surgeries in hospitals in 104 counties located within 11 of the state’s 22 trauma service areas.