If you’re reading this on Saturday morning, March 2, you need to quickly finish reading The Gatesville Messenger and head to Pearl. The Pearl Cottage Bookstore is open today from 9 a.m. until 3 …

“The personality of the mule is more like the personality of a dog,” says Paul Garrison of Medina. “The only difference is you can’t have that mule lay in your lap.” …

Little Miss Alison Joy David was born Wednesday, Feb. 14, at Baylor Scott and White in Roanoke to McKenzie Lois Hopson David.  The baby weighed eight pounds, eleven ounces and is 21-inches long. …

Julia Garrett, of Houston, didn’t know her mother was a spy.  When she found out, she became highly interested in the roll women played doing intelligence work during World War Two.  …

The Pearl Church of Christ reports that they had another excellent annual Valentine’s Silent Auction for His Kids on Feb. 11, thanks to the community and everyone who participated in this very …

This past weekend was Super Bowl Sunday. For those of us who can remember the half-empty stadium for the first Super Bowl, it is hard to comprehend how the game has become a truly global event. The …

Miss Jacklyn Pearl Pullen of Rock Wall won the 12U breakaway roping last Saturday in Decatur. Jacklyn is the great-niece of Barbara Hopson. Bobby and Holly Jones had lunch in Gatesville Sunday …

Breaking news from the young and the rest of us in Pearl: I, your trusty Pearl News Correspondent who never causes any trouble or gets in anybody’s business (well, that’s not true), just …

If you want an upscale, state-of-the-art cast iron skillet, go to Fredericksburg.  “It’s an interesting market and is actually significantly more interesting than I thought …

This past week was intended to be my vacation. I had been working for quite a few months without a break and determined that some time off was well-advised. Frankly, I was worn out as it had been over three years since I had taken an entire week away from work.

It’s an old joke from the 1990s, pulled from the files each time the Super Bowl rolls around.

Joe Barrington, of Albany, creates outdoor metal sculptures. “One of my favorite pieces I ever built is in Lampasas. It’s a sixteen-foot catfish on the back of a 1959 Chevrolet pickup. The fish hangs over the cab and has a come along on it and looks like it’s just been caught.”

As time has passed, the leaders in education have adjusted and altered curriculums to align with the perceived needs of contemporary society. Two generations ago, a traditional education included a healthy dose of the sciences, civics, mathematics and traditional languages like Latin.

Mound recently lost one of its residents: Mr. Joseph Louis Piller died on Monday, Jan. 24. Funeral services were held on Friday at Scott’s Funeral Home in Gatesville.  Mr. Piller is …

Good Saturday morning, folks. If you’re reading this today, finish the paper and head to Pearl Community Center and Pearl Cottage Bookstore. This is the day!

“I used to live in Alan Reed, and old Route 66 went through there, so I was playing on that road a lot,” says Charla Smith, who works at the Devil’s Rope Museum in the panhandle town of McLean.

In 1856, William Rand opened a printing shop in Chicago and two years later hired an Irish immigrant named Andrew McNally to work in his shop. The shop became very prosperous, and in 1859 was hired …

Kinsley McPherson won Reserve Champion Senior Commercial Steer. Anna McPherson won Grand Champion Senior Commercial Steer, and Allie McPherson won Grand Champion Junior Commercial Steer in Gatesville …

Jeff Tucker, of Brownwood, spent twenty years as a fireman, ten years as a fire fighter, then ten years as an arson investigator.  “I put in twenty and got out because I saw a lot of …

Perhaps it is the times we live in, or maybe it is people in general, but folks seem to be more demanding than they once were. There is a time to make reasonable requests or to insist on getting what …