My tenure as the managing editor of The Highlander and the Burnet Bulletin has come to an end, five and a half years after my wife Betty and I first came to Burnet and Llano counties. I have accepted the position as publisher of the historic Gonzales Inquirer in Gonzales, Texas.

As if I didn’t have enough reasons to hate 2020, Tuesday afternoon brought news which genuinely shook me to my very core. My favorite guitarist of all-time — the legendary Eddie Van Halen — succumbed to cancer at the age of 65.