Texas is a big state with a big reputation: Big skies, big cattle, big personalities and, sometimes, big surprises. Tucked away in the legal books of the Lone Star State...

  Folks along El Camino Real continue to be slow roasted as the hundred degrees plus temperatures stay with us for the near future.  By two or three in the afternoon, Alto...

Summer brings back to mind summers of long ago. Kids’ summers back then were innocence, freedom and skinned knees and toes. Our neighborhood was our playground; our father...

Publisher’s note: Like it or not, artificial intelligence is growing daily and it’s already invaluable to the public in research, medicine and our everyday life. With this...

  Folks along El Camino Real are busy trying to get back into the schedule of another school year.  It seems like school starts earlier and earlier every year. I can...

Folks along El Camino Real got really excited about the cold front that came in early Sunday morning. The weathermen had been promising it and sure enough it happened. The...

The rock group The Who wrote “Tommy, can you hear me,” a lyric from a track on their album “Tommy,” and that phrase comes to mind whenever I attend a Rusk City Council...

  Folks along El Camino Real got really excited about the cold front that came in early Sunday morning.  The weathermen had been promising it and...

  Folks along El Camino Real are counting down the days until we are at the end of July and starting another beautiful East Texas August.  I must admit our mornings the...

Each July, communities across Cherokee County pause to celebrate the freedoms that define our nation. We gather with family, fly the flag, attend parades, enjoy fireworks...

  Folks along El Camino Real are doing their best to make it through the dog days of summer as temperatures rise along with the humidity.  I grew up thinking the dog days...

Quagmire: A quagmire is a soft, wet area of muddy or boggy ground that sinks underfoot. Figuratively, it refers to a complex, hazardous, or inextricable situation – such as...

  Folks along El Camino Real continue to bake in the July heat.  We’ve seen it a lot hotter and we’ve seen it a lot cooler, but we always seem to survive. They promised us...

Several events conspired to make this 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence extra special this year. Of course, the buildup to July 4th was in...

  Folks along El Camino Real celebrated the 250th Fourth of July pretty much like they always have.  Lots of folks headed for the beach, some for the lake, and others just...