
Spent the good part of a weekend CLEANING (not just washing) vehicles, hopin to make it rain. Continue reading “S.B. 1 oughta curdle your milk”
Category: Commentary
Debbie Estes Drew


Granddaughter of Devine’s Bev and Ethel Estes and Paul and Lillian Brieden, and daughter of Thomas N. Estes (DHS ’64) and Mary Lynn Brieden (DHS ’65), Debbie Estes Drew grew up in a military family and lived all over the world. Continue reading “Debbie Estes Drew”
Summer is here in all its glory
No arrests this week
Another hot summer week has come and gone, at the current rate August could be a real scorcher. Continue reading “No arrests this week”
Sunburns, attack crabs, and jellyfish

Well we enjoyed the beach this weekend and didn’t really get any rain until right when we were about to leave. Continue reading “Sunburns, attack crabs, and jellyfish”
A couple things you may not know

The week, so far has been great, and I feel as if I’ve gotten a lot done here at home. Continue reading “A couple things you may not know”
Just one arrest
The week in review – We had 44 calls for service and 7 of those were for false alarms (that’s 16% of our calls this week). Continue reading “Just one arrest”
Peanut butter and cheese

We had several of A’Dell’s little cousins over for a day this week, so I had four little hooligans running circles around me instead of just one. Continue reading “Peanut butter and cheese”
Keller Park: a place where friendships were begun or renewed

From 1956 to 1994, families from all over Medina County and parts of South Texas gathered for the St. Joseph Catholic Church’s Fourth of July celebration and fundraiser at Keller Park. Continue reading “Keller Park: a place where friendships were begun or renewed”
The Bob Bendele family history



Johann Jacob I. Bendele (son of Franz Joseph Bendele, b 1775, and Cathrine Riedinger, ca. 1776) was born in 1800 in the village of Ste.-Croix-en-Plaine, or Heiligkreuz, in Alsace, ten miles from the west bank of the Rhine. Continue reading “The Bob Bendele family history”