Category: Viewpoints

Dear Editor, Your July 25, 2018 issue of the “The Times” quotes Commissioner Craig Oakes as saying: “The only ones pressing to finish the courtroom are the attorneys.” Which attorneys? All? One, two?...

A waitress has been fired from her job after she admitted writing a racist message on a receipt and falsely blaming it on Freestone County Sheriff’s Office employee, dispatcher Kateley Craig. Freestone County Sheriff Jeremy...

by Lee H. Hamilton   You know these words, but how often do you stop to think about them? “We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide...

Dear Editor, On Friday, July 27th, the TRS Board voted to lower the assumption rate on the TRS Pension plan. The Texas Legislature will need to provide more funds in 2019 to make the pension actuarially sound. There are...

A letter to the editor was published last week in another local newspaper that raised questions about two events happening in Fairfield the weekend of September 7-8, 2018. There were a few inaccuracies (names and monetary...