‘Ragtime King’ left unique musical legacy

When Scott Joplin died in a New York City asylum on Apr. 1, 1917, the “King of Ragtime” was out of money and out of his mind. Florence Joplin, a freeborn black woman from Kentucky, gave birth to the second of her six children in late 1867 or early 1868 near Linden in northeastern Texas.

Too many eggs

by Renae Brumbaugh Right now, I have forty-six eggs in my refrigerator. Forty-six, people. And no, I’m not planning to open a cupcake factory or a breakfast café. I have no aspirations to take over as the Easter Bunny. I don’t even like rabbits, but that’s another article.

Battle of the quotes

If you are not a “grammar geek,” this should not appeal to you in the least. I was going to write an early April Fool’s Day column focusing  on our city and have lots of fun with that, but then I thought about all the people who take articles from places like “The Onion” seriously.

Old ‘family’ chair kept to remind me of sacrifices

There is a  simplewooden, ladderback chair that sits fairly  unobtrusively in our home that most people probably look at as some sort of odd decoration. It marks a spot at the beginning of the hallway to the  edrooms in our little  retirement home. No one sits in the chair.

We paved paradise

By Lynette Sowell In looking through the archives of the newspaper, I saw numerous references to the Santa Fe depot, along with plenty of pictures. It seems that the train didn’t just run through Cove (at random hours of the day and night), but it stopped here.

House passes human trafficking, border security bills

By Ed Sterling Bills to address the illegal importation and exploitation of persons and to protect the state’s border with Mexico moved through the Texas House last week. They were the first major statewide legislation to be approved by the body since Jan. 13, the opening day of the 140-day session.

Town goes up in flames twice in four decades

Ninety-nine years ago this week, the second major fire in four decades destroyed downtown Paris leaving 5,000 residents of the northeast Texas town homeless. Founded in 1844 on 50 acres donated by a pioneer merchant, the original inhabitants changed the name of the settlement from Pinhook to Paris.

Organic

I have recently d iscovered food. Just to clarify, I am a city girl. Food has always been the stuff we buy at the grocery store or in a restaurant. I never questioned its taste or its validity as real food. The stuff set in front of me was edible, because somebody said it was edible.

The real beauty of #thedress

It never ceases to amaze me how one little itsy-bitsy insignificant thing can create a buzz the size of a giant’s bumblebee in a  flower garden.Take, The Dress. Or Dressgate, as it’s been called. All someone did  was post a photo onTumblr (an Internet  photo sharingsite) of a dress.

Lawmakers seek to control elements of state spending

Debates over the Texas House and Senate versions of the state budget lie ahead, and movement toward setting budget controls to blend into a final, agreedupon budget for 2016-2017 emerged in low-numbered  bills filed last week.