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Unsung Heroes I have, for years, been a member of one co-op or another, and I have nothing but the highest admiration for the linemen. We have suffered through many storms living in Port Lavaca, and it seems that the linemen who get the power back on are always on duty. I have seen them…

Broadband Challenge The small rural broadband item really hit home with me [Currents, Narrowing of Broadband, September 2016]. We started getting promises of affordable rural broadband more than 20 years ago, and we still don’t have affordable broadband where I need it in Comanche County. We have had almost zero upload speed for over a…

Here’s What Really Counts! Man, that was a good-looking bunch of oysters from Black Pearl Oyster Bar [Cover, August 2016]. It’s a shame they didn’t give you a full dozen. I always count my oysters when they set them down, and every once in a while it will be short. From time to time, I…

Opera singer from East Texas stirs audiences around the world

A Most Beautiful Lake I spent every summer weekend at my grandparents’ Possum Kingdom Lake cabin [Playing Possum, July 2016]. So many fond memories of water skiing through Hell’s Gate, swimming at Sandy Beach and fishing with Granddad. To me, Possum Kingdom will always be the most beautiful Texas lake—with huge catfish and plentiful crappie….