New Rockford Transcript - Official Newspaper of Eddy County since 1883

The older I get, the more I am turning into my father.

You see, the world makes less sense to me every day. My fellow man puzzles me more every day.

I cite exhibit A: crappy stone walls. I know a woman who recently paid $10,000 to have a stone retaining wall built along her driveway.

Now I used to be a stonemason – I rebuilt close to 200 such walls during my college years – and I was shocke...