“Oh, my aching head.” What hurts when you have a headache? Though it may feel like it, a headache is not a pain in your brain – in fact the bones of the skull and the tissues of the brain never hurt because they lack pain-sensitive nerve fibers. Most headaches happen outside the skull in the nerves, blood vessels, and muscles that cover the head and neck.

NEW ARRIVALS: (All quotes are from publishers’ summaries) Ready or not, summer is just around the corner. The kids will be looking for something to do, so sign them up for summer reading. They will have chances to win a Kindle Fire, Wal-Mart gift cards up to $125, swim passes, and other prizes.

The Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service in Mason County will be having a Progressive Rancher Workshop on Tuesday, May 28th at the Richard Eckert Civic Center in Mason, located at 1024 McKinley Street. Drs. Bob Lyons and Rick Machen of Texas AgriLife Research will be presenting along with Cory Pence of Texas Department of Agriculture.

Today, as I sit in front of my computer screen, I contemplate how so many things have given way to change in my lifetime. I learned to type on a manual typewriter and then an electric typewriter, and now a keyboard. There are a lot of advantages to change....not having to retype because of a mistake..

The world would have been short-changed (okay, in some cases, “long-changed”) had the wheel not been invented many moons ago. Geometry would have been incomplete, wagons could not have been circled and there’d have been no tune called Roll Out the Barrel. We’d have missed “going in circles,” and chariot rides would have been rough even for the toughest gladiators.

Jackson Cole Hood is pleased to announce the arrival of his baby sister, Hailey Reese Hood, who was born November 27, 2012, at St. Joseph Hospital in Bryan, TX. Hailey weighed in at seven pounds, five ounces, and was 19.5 inches long. Her parents are Andy and Kellie Hood of College Station.

Cinco de Mayo. Mother’s Day. Two well-known May events. Lesser known is Peace Officers Memorial Day. That’s today, May 15. Saturday is Armed Forces Day. Next Wednesday is National Maritime Day. And finally, Memorial Day. And hopefully between now and then, more rain. Let May showers bring June flowers. Or just keep things green. So far, so good. How do you spell relief? R-A-I-N. Beats 2011 by a long shot. So get planting. Get Texas native plants at The Green House. Hardy, d ...

On Friday, May 10th, the Mason 6th Grade Band and Junior High Band traveled to Brownwood to perform at the Howard Payne Band Festival. This festival is a lot like the UIL contest that the high school band attended in April. Each bands’ performance is rated by three judges. Both of these bands received straight division 1 ratings for their performances on Friday.

On Saturday May 4th, the Castell School Restoration Committee Hatty Sagebiel and Patty Schneider Pfister unveiled the memorial bench that was given by memorials to the Castell School Restoration Fund in honor of Leroy and Margaret Tatsch Rode. The Castell Community Club hosted the dedication event and Patty Schneider Pfister was the Master of Ceremonies.

Charles Creighton Steapp, 76, went to be with the Lord on Wednesday, April 17, 2013, at home in Grapevine, Texas. He was born to the late Edward L. and Eola K. Steapp on July 13, 1936, in Menard, Texas, formerly of Deming, New Mexico. He was preceded in death by his brother, Dudley Steapp, of Mason, Texas. In 1956, he married the late Mary Ruth Bishop.

Sammye Gray of Cherokee Texas passed away Saturday, May 11, 2013 at the age of 81. She was born to Mary (Brantley) and Sam Williams August 21, 1931 in Brady Texas. She enjoyed reading, hunting arrowheads and visiting with friends. Sammye is survived by her daughter Rebekah McCarty and husband Bart of Cherokee; Sons Martin and wife Shirley of Cherokee and Mark of Gonzales, Louisiana; daughter-in-law Shannon Gray of Alpine; Five grandchildren, Laura, Rachel, Joshua, Heather, and Symantha; Four G ...

Pictured back row left to right: Corrine Wright, Wendy Hastings, Kay Hudler, Pam Scott, Nanci Gibbons. Front row left to right: Jan Strickland, Carolyn Phillips, Nan Larrimore, Patti Grote, and Rosemary Davis. The Mason Friends of the Library presented Librarian Patti Grote with a second donation at their May 7 board meeting.

Hello all you Puncher fans that barely survive from football season to football season, you are in luck. Little Puncher football is firing up and getting ready for another great season. Don’t miss the annual hamburger cook-out on Sunday, May 19 from 11am – 1:30pm on the square. A meal deal will be offered with a dessert treat.

The Mason County Garden Club began planting herbs in the flowerbeds around the Old Yeller statue last Thursday. They were rained out before they could finish, but the finished results will be beautiful! The club adopted the Mason Co. M. Beven Eckert Memorial Library as an ongoing project last year.

The Mason Garden Club will meet on Tuesday, May 21, 2013, at 2 p.m. at the Mason County M. Beven Eckert Memorial Library Stribling Room. The program will be “Landscape Plans for Heritage Park” presented by Dr. Michael Murphy of Mason. Dr. Murphy is a retired professor who taught landscape architecture and horticulture at Texas A&M University.