CAPITAL HIGHLIGHTS The number of people still missing in the July 4 Kerr County flood dropped to two after another body was recovered last week, the Austin American-Statesman reported. These numbers were accurate at press time.

Recently I’ve struggled organizing the Museum’s Madisonville Sidewalk Cattlemen’s Association exhibit because I love it so. I’ve decided it’s not going to be finished; instead, since we have a plethora of items, I’ll change things in and out until September. Today I pulled from a page of a Houston Chronicle dated December 21, 1949.

Gov. Greg Abbott said late last week the statewide death toll from the catastrophic flooding in the Hill Country stands at 135, and the number of persons missing has dropped to three.

As of press time, search teams have recovered 103 bodies in Kerr County after the devastating July 4 floods along the Guadalupe River, with Gov. Greg Abbott saying at least 161 people were still unaccounted for.

Gov. Greg Abbott said Sunday he’s likely to instruct the Legislature to investigate early warning systems and other governmental responses to July Fourth flash flooding that killed dozens of people in the Hill Country.

A few mornings ago, I stopped by a local restaurant to grab some breakfast. Another man pulled into the parking lot alongside me, and we both noted that the manager had yet to unlock the door. We struck up a conversation while we waited and as we talked, I quickly realized that I was playing a role in yet another of God’s preordained meetings.

The Madisonville High School structure that preceded the current one was loved by many and stood on Highway 75 between The National Bank of Madisonville and our post office. I wrote about it before but found no definite date as to when it was built, either 1928 or 1929.

The passage of the state’s first voucher program means homeschool families in Texas will soon be eligible for up to $2,000 to use toward educational costs such as tutoring or curriculum. From 500,000 to 600,000 Texas children are homeschooled — between 8% and 10% of all school-age children, the Houston Chronicle reported.

MINGLE WITH KLINGLE I recently watched an interview with John Lennox. Lennox is Professor of Mathematics at Oxford University, and a renowned apologist.