Do your home and family match? Does your home meet the needs of the family? How well does it work for your family’s activities? As your family changes, so does how you use the space available. Rooms may have to be used for a different purpose. Bedroom space may to be converted to an office or vise vera.

The following is an important message from the Cherokee Volunteer Fire Department. Cherokee Fire Department needs old vehicles to practice extrication. Doors, roof, and windows will be off vehicle when finished. If you have one that we may use, please contact one of the members or call 622-4681. Your support is always appreciated. Congratulations to Clay and Dawyna Perry on the birth of their new son.

This is the name of new show that has been advertised on television. Do you remember the days when you were at school and there was an argument about whose dad was the best? Someone might say, “My dad is smarter than your dad.” And the comeback would be, “No he’s not!

100 Years Ago March 5, 1909 Parents of our public school of course will join heartily in assisting the school authorities in enforcing the regulations against social entertainments during school attendance. Books and beaux will not go together to the advantage of either. Judge Walters appointed A.J. Wise, L.W. Rector, and W.A. Ashley on the jury commission to select petit jurors for the county court for the next six months. Will Burns left Tuesday for Galveston where he will join the Washin ...

We had .7 inch of rain for February and another .9 Sunday night, bringing our years total to 2.1 inches compared to 3.9 at this time last year. We now have entered our windy month of the year. The wind was out of the south on March 1st. There is an old saying that if the wind is out of the north on March 1st, it will be a bad year for crops.

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If you might have had any idea of trying to get some of your Spring garden planted, lets be hoping that you were thinking of onions & Cole crops, as it appears that we’re still having some severe Winter periods left. Most everyone I visited with earlier during the week was surely grateful for the rain.

Well March came in like a lamb and if the old saying “Comes in like a lamb will go out like a Lion” holds true we are going to have a wild March. A good indication was shown to us Monday morning around 3:00 a.m.. The wind hit with a tremendous force, but it did bring some rain along with it.

The small building was on the main street and had been abandoned for years. One day as I passed by I noticed an old man painting the building. Later on it had windows, a door and a sign that said, “Donut Shop“. On my next trip to that town I decided to stop in and see what was going on.

The groaning is getting a little louder, can you hear the farmers and ranchers calling out for rain? Prayers for rain are coming a little faster and certainly more fervently. It is almost crisis time for many crops. We are definitely having a dry start to our year! Working on the in like a lion out like a lamb, April should come in quietly, since March is blowing half the country away!

Darlene Gibbons Farnsworth, 75, of Atlanta Georgia, passed away Saturday, February 9, 2008 in Atlanta. Darlene was born and raised in Richland Springs and Brownwood, Texas. She was the daughter of Anne Miller Beck and James Harold Gibbons; the great granddaughter of W.H. (“Uncle Billy”) Gibbons; and the stepdaughter of the late A.J.

Thurman Harley Johnson, 74, of Goldthwaite, passed away on Thursday, February 28, 2008, in Burnet, Texas. He was born on September 8, 1933 in San Saba County to parents, Leon Johnson and Hazel Hibler Johnson. Thurman met Jane Ann Steen and they were married on June 17, 1955 in Goldthwaite. He lived in Mills County most of his life.

February 28, 2008 the San Saba Ladies Golf Association met for play day. The Chair for February, Sandee Hartley, called for a game of playing the pink ball. This is a game where the ball is passed to each player on the team in rotation and the low score wins.

Wed. 3-5 TAKS ELA/Reading Test – Grades 9-11 Thurs. 3-6 Baseball – Mill Pond Classic – San Saba Girls Track Meet – Menard Girls Golf Comanche – 9:00 Fri. 3-7 Softball – Grape Creek – There 5:30 Baseball – Mill Pond Classic Varsity Tennis – Regional 2A Team Tourney – Round Rock FCCLA Leadership Meeting – Wichita Falls Spring pictures Sat.

Myspace, Facebook, Youtube and other social networking sites have become a way of communicating for our kiddos. These types of social networking sites and others like them put a whole new meaning to the phrase, “Don’t Talk To Strangers”. One thing that our teens do not think about is the consequence associated with posting a photograph on the Internet.