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If you ever travel on Highway 155 from atop the Bluff going toward Weimar and veer off at Cozy Corner onto FM 3233, you will travel about one and a half to two miles to a steel pipe gate as an entrance to a pasture. A few hundred yards further, you will see another and, after crossing Williams Creek Bridge, there is a third gate identical to the other two.

C APITAL Highlights A wildfire in the Texas Panhandle has consumed more than 1 million acres and as of Sunday was just 15% contained, according to the Texas A&M Forest Service. It is the largest wildfire in Texas history.

Dear Readers, I have recently been reading and discussing with a few others at my church the book ZEALOT. It was a best-seller of 15 or so years back written by Reza Aslan, a professor and sociologist-historian specializing in religion. The book examines the two centuries on either side of the birth of Jesus, in trying to decipher what the actual life of Jesus in Gallilee and Judea must have been like. (Aslan says he is trying to examine the life of “Jesus the Man” instead of “Jesus Christ, Messiah.”) I highly recommend the book for its insights into the political and social pressures of those times, for its insights about who Jesus was and how He understood Himself, and also for its remarkable documentation and ease of reading for lay people like me. In any case, the book has piqued my interest again in what was going on in the early church, and where all those apostles went whom Jesus sent out with his command to “make disciples of all nations,” resulting in a very rapid growth of this religion into almost all regions of the world (as known by the Roman Empire at least).

History In the wee hours of Mar. 9, 1916, peasant guerrillas cut a hole in the international fence 60 miles from El Paso and scurried toward Columbus, New Mexico.

Postage on an ordinary first-class letter was increasing from 8¢ to 10¢, air mail was climbing from 11¢ to 13¢ an ounce, cards in regular mail were going up from 6¢ to 8¢ and air mail cards were to cost 11¢ rather than 9¢. La Grange Postmaster Oscar L. Cook said second and third-class postage rates were also increasing.

To the Editor: “If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.” – Desmond Tutu All who enjoy freedom and want to live in a Democracy must not be silent. Moderates who keep hoping that the Republican nominee won’t be the former president are speaking out in favor of the other Republican running for President.

es emerged. This method was a lot more costly, but effective. The cost to plant a large area might be prohibitive. But to do an acre or more each year might be affordable. Checkerboarding the pasture will allow for natural seed dispersal and quicker establishment.

To the Editor: Since I subscribe to Shakespeare’s philosophy that “brevity is the soul of wit,” I am not going to address all the contradictions I found in Mr. Romberg’s Feb.

To the Editor: Fellow citizens of La Grange, I am really afraid. Our city council was so hard up to hire a city manager, that they almost doubled our retired city manager’s salary.

Living in a foreign country broadens my perspective on relocation, moving, and being a guest in another culture. I listen to brief snippets of the latest headlines either terrorizing or numbing the population of United States, and I am grateful to be in the bowels of what many believe to be the murderous country of Mexico.