Dear editor:

I had a trip planned to Biloxi a month after Hurricane Harvey hit Aransas County. I kept those plans in place because, quite frankly, my wife and I needed to get away after that first month of non-stop work. However, the original agenda for that trip changed quite a bit.

Dear editor:

Last week in this space I said I was going to address this week the Downtown Anchor Project (new courthouse and Rockport city hall), including the long-term ramifications of not taking advantage of the many opportunities before us. I also noted I would share my perspective about what we are …

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Dear editor:

Congratulations are in order to two groups of people.

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“At long last, have you left no sense of decency?” With that attorney Joseph Welch effectively ended Senator Joseph McCarthy’s which hunt against alleged “Communists”. Americans were able speak more freely and we assumed “witch hunts”, were a thing of the past.

I’m giving most of my space this week to Steve Fischer (see guest column), but I wanted to share a piece I received via email last week. In these upside down times we’re all living through, I thought is was a bit apropos for the times.

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Dear editor:

I realize it’s only mid-August, but I can’t wait until Christmas.

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As noted in this newspaper last week, a petition is circulating in our community to put the decision to issue debt to fund the construction of a new county courthouse and related facilities (known as the Downtown Anchor Project) to a public vote, rather than allow County commissioners to mak…

Action and reaction to Aransas County’s intention to issue “up to” $24.5 million in certificates of obligation, to cover the gap in funding for the new courthouse that will replace the one Hurricane Harvey destroyed, as well as some unrelated expenditures, has occurred as fast or faster than…

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For almost three years local government entities, either on their own, or with the help of the Aransas County Long Term Recovery Team (LTRT), have been steadily working to repair or replace government owned or operated assets that were either heavily damaged, or destroyed, by Hurricane Harvey.

I’m pretty confident saying I probably wasn’t the only Aransas County resident who was on edge, if even just a little bit, when news broke last week about a tropical depression in the Gulf of Mexico, which might threaten our county.

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Aren’t you glad you’re not Aransas County Judge C.H. “Burt” Mills, Rockport Mayor Patrick Rios, or Fulton Mayor Kelli Cole?

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I’m glad I’m not the parent of a child who might not be able to go back into his or her classroom, once again, this fall. I haven’t had this conversation with my daughters and sons-in-law, and how possibly having to teach our grandchildren, again, will affect them, while at the same time the…

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One of the pitfalls of this job is having mistakes pointed out to you, especially typos on the front page. I look over page one many times, and the final thing I do is spell check all the headlines. Unfortunately, when I do misspell something, that is actually a word when misspelled, spell c…

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I’m pretty much tired of COVID-19, statue destruction, anarchists in the streets of major U.S. cities, and the ridiculous groundswell of support in some areas of our great nation to defund police, or otherwise come up with some new way of policing.

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Sunday is Father’s Day, a day men like me are celebrated. It’s also a day I honor my father, and my sons-in-law who are dads to my grandchildren.

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Five grandchildren in the fold this week makes for one crazy week at the Probst homestead. My older sister and brother-in-law had grandchildren first and started their “Cousin Camp” a few years before us. We more or less stole the idea, and started “Camp NaniPoppie” shortly after our first g…

Texans have been witnessing things that would have been unthinkable until now: Surge teams, testing of nursing homes for COVID-19 and the National Guard helping to disinfect nursing home facilities around the state.

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I was going to focus on my father’s 90th birthday this week, but then all hell broke loose in the streets of major cities across our nation after a rogue white cop from Minneapolis, captured on video, senselessly took the life of another human being, George Floyd, who is black.

As we are all aware, our normal schedules have been on tilt for a while. This past weekend, however, really felt strange.

We’ve all been living under some version of a local stay at home order since the end of March, and I’m just about ready to see everything open up and be back to a “real” normal.

Monday marks the end of an era in Fulton. Jimmy Kendrick is walking away from public service. He served Fulton as mayor since the day he was appointed to the position in July 2011.

We are all going through a lot in our lives right now with the reality (and yes, even the hype) of COVID-19. It came at a particularly bad time … when the majority of Aransas County residents and business owners were starting to see a real light at the end of the tunnel after Hurricane Harvey.

Dear editor:

During this coronavirus pandemic, access to accurate and trustworthy information in your community is as critical to life under quarantine and as sought after as hand sanitizer and face masks.

I know I speak for everyone when I say, “I’m ready for things to get back to normal.” I also bet County Judge C.H. “Burt” Mills, Rockport Mayor Pat Rios, and Fulton Mayor Jimmy Kendrick are ready for a little normalcy, as well.

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So much has been seen, read, or heard by all of us since the coronavirus put a halt to normal daily activities.

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Dear editor:

I don’t know about you, but I wasn’t designed to sit around all weekend watching Netflix or non-stop COVID-19 news.

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