Over the course of the past year, Taylor Swift has been performing concerts around the country and around the world. She is a phenomenon, an icon, and an entertainer whose success is truly not …

Future dates for Bookstore and Pearl Bluegrass days are July 6, Aug. 3, Sept. 14 (second Saturday due to a longstanding booking for a reunion), Oct. 5, Nov. 2, and Dec. 7. Mark your calendars. Kay …

Geoff Holladay lives on a farm near Lamesa.  He has always been interested in engines.  “Whether it’s airplanes or cars or tractors or trucks, or anything like that, …

Mr. Charles Freeman wrote “History of Pearl, Texas” in 1969, and it includes many delightful stories. Mr. Freeman was born Nov. 29, 1903, four miles east of Pearl. He spent his entire …

Several people of Mound attended the TMEA, Texas Music Scholar Award, which was bestowed at the Choir Banquet April 27. The recipients were sophomores Eli Alvarez, Nahdiah Appleton, Nevin Benning, …

My, oh my, how automobiles have changed since I got my first driver’s license some 50-plus years ago. I’m not sure young people today really understand or appreciate the role a vehicle …

Dr. Hy Penn was a pediatrician in Houston thirty-six years ago and recently retired.  He did magic tricks for his young patients. “I had patients that would fake illness just to be …

Future dates for Bookstore and Pearl Bluegrass days are July 6, Aug. 3, Sep. 14 (second Saturday due to a longstanding booking for a reunion), Oct. 5, Nov. 2, and Dec. 7. Mark your calendars. Kay and …

Elliott Lanham and Kennedie Hyde got married Saturday, June 15, at the Majestic Elegance Punta Cana resort in the Dominican Republic. They will have a reception in Gatesville on June 29. Kinsley …

The dictionary defines shame as a painful feeling of humiliation caused by the consciousness of wrong or foolish behavior. While shame is commonly thought of as a negative emotion, its existence …

When Alexander Graham Bell exhibited his telephone invention in 1876 at the Philadelphia Centennial Exposition, a Texas gentleman by the name of Colonel A. H. Belo became very interested. Belo was …

Future dates for Bookstore and Pearl Bluegrass days are July 6, Aug. 3, Sept. 14 (second Saturday due to a longstanding booking for a reunion), Oct. 5, Nov. 2, and Dec. 7. Mark your calendars. Kay …

Kinsley McPherson competed at Texas 4-H Roundup this week in the Livestock Quiz Bowl, Horse Judging, and Hippology. She also attended the Texas A&M Horse Judging camp where she placed 2 nd …

Koben Puckett, of Canyon, was raised on a ranch in New Mexico. “By the time I got out of grade school, I was one hundred percent pursuing rodeo; junior rodeo, high school rodeos, all kinds …

Something has changed in me. An essential, fundamental belief I held for years has morphed into something new. The change was slow yet seemingly relentless. I would have never thought my feelings …

Pearl Church of Christ reports another successful VBS in the books for 2024. The study this year centered on King David, and the little ones learned about David and Goliath. The theme was …

Ruth Ann Hattori, marketing director of the Nimitz Museum in Fredericksburg says the enclosed Japanese garden there is a lovely place to contemplate anything in your life you wish to think …

Mound Cowboy Church and White Mound Baptist Church are having their annual VBS June 9-13. Registration starts Sunday, June 9, at 4 p.m. The different age groups are (three-five-year-olds) (K-1 st …

We are fortunate to have a young woman working in our office who relocated to Texas last year from the Ukraine. She and her family were minding their own business and living a happy life when …

Can you believe it’s June already? The temperature gauge certainly shows that it is, for all intents and purposes, summer. But, not to worry as you can head to Pearl right now and sit in the …