Editorials

Last Friday, Carol Conlee brought Jaston Williams and his manager by the office prior to the beginning of his fabulously successful weekend of fundraising for the Odeon Theater. Jaston and I have a number of acquaintances in common from Austin, and we really enjoyed having a few moments to chat about those special people in our lives.During our conversation, I explained to Jaston why I already knew that his weekend in town would be a good experience.

The article “Mason Food Bank Has New Location at 324 Fort McKavitt Street” by Sue Pledger was in last week’s paper, Jan 25, 2012, and had an error regarding the following sentence:“And even before that time Brent Hinckley and his family moved all the items they had stored in this space to another location and Monica Hinckley being the great electrician that she is wired the rooms for all the freezers.”Monica Hinckley is NOT an electrician and did not make any re ...

The last week was a tough one for many people that I know. From very young to the not so young, there were people I knew that had to say goodbye to someone they loved.Menard County, already beset by repeated tragedies over the last month, suffered yet one more when they lost a young man from the Menard schools.He had spent a summer playing baseball with the boys of Mason, and he came to know many of our own youth.

Gerry, As one person who vowed not to miss Dr. Robin E. Clark’s weekly January presentations at Mason’s Odeon Theatre; I would like to warn your readers that her final program in this series will be next Tuesday, the 31st. Her topic will be Andrew Wyeth. Georgia O’Keeffe, Charles Russell and ‘Grandma’ Moses have been ‘visited’ earlier.

I remember the post office at the Katemcy store. When I was growing up, we would go to the store every morning to get the mail (after 9:30 a.m.); or, if we didn't pick it up there, at 11:30 a.m. it would be delivered to our mailbox at the cattleguard.I loved picking up the mail down at the store.

Citizens of Mason: One of the ways that Mason Church of Christ has been helping the Medina Children’s Home is by allowing them to have six Drop Boxes on our parking lot. They are able to make money from the items donated and placed inside these Boxes. However, some of our members want to remove the Boxes because of all the trash that is being left there including mattresses.

The fall of 2011 was, without compare, a great season.There was the unbeaten football team. After months of sweltering heat and oppressive drought, we finally got cooler temperatures and some very welcome rainfall. And the holidays were pleasantly uneventful for the most part, allowing everyone to celebrate Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year's happily and without incident.And then comes January 2nd.There's a brief flurry of activity with the stock show; but, then everything begins to slow ...

Dear Pam (Kruse); Having graduated from a Dallas high school in the ‘60’s I’ve always followed Texas high school football even after we moved to the Knoxville, TN area in 1987.We have OK h.s. football here but nothing like good ole Texas high school football which I follow on FOX Sports Southwest which I receive via satellite tv.I recorded The Punchers’ state championship game over a week ago and just this evening got a chance to watch the game and the post-gam ...

Gerry, Thanks again for the public forum. I would like to say hats off to Kendal. I have enjoyed many of your articles before, but the followup to the Puncher State Victory was absolute class. Mason is a great place to be. David Scarth

I'm a nerd. I've got so many "gadgets" and so many cables and chargers, I even confuse myself with all the wires and connectors that litter my office and bedroom.In just the immediate area of my desk at the office right now, I have: my desktop PC; my Kindle Fire; my Blackberry Playbook; and, my laptop PC.