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The 23rd Annual Texas Mushroom Festival will bloom in Madisonville on Saturday, Oct. 19, celebrating the town’s status as the Mushroom Capital of Texas. This vibrant community event has grown exponentially since its humble beginnings in 2002.

Local retired educators gathered to learn about safety and fraud prevention at their monthly meeting. The Madison County Retired School Personnel met Oct.

Top state lawmakers plan to address soaring homeowners insurance premiums when they return to Austin in January for the next legislative session, according to the Houston Chronicle. The state’s insurance commissioner, Cassie Brown, told a Senate committee that home insurance rates increased last year by more than 21% statewide, twice the average increase in 2022.

This week’s column should be considered a bit of satire, unless of course you are among those who I am addressing. Law enforcement, believe it or not, is a customer service-based profession, and I cannot think of another profession that is called upon to wear so many “different hats.” We are the “go to” for virtually every problem people face, and I sometimes jokingly say that we must play the role of dad, mom, doctor, counselor, mechanic, cowboy, friend, priest, and heaven forbid, sometimes even a fireman. As a result, there are members of our society that believe we are merely here to serve their every whim, no matter how ludicrous the request may be. For instance, we actually get calls occasionally because someone didn’t get the service they thought they deserved at a local drive-through restaurant.