Abilene Reporter News: Columns Home News Obituaries Sports Dallas Cowboys Features Entertainment Opinion Classifieds FEATURES Food and Dining Gardening Health Home People Religion Weddings Columns Brazos Bill Archives JANUARY - MARCH 2000 ARCHIVES March 31 -- Director labored in Marshal Dillons shadow March 29 -- Dearly departed classmate not so departed March 24 -- King of Carts - Parking lot attendants personality enlivens entire store March 22 -- Bonham lads balloon made tracks March 20 -- Missing bikini top made better tale for intern March 17 -- Centenarian going to grave a yellow dog March 15 -- Cookoff may dominate future roundups March 13 -- Texas flood sank lawmakers credibility March 9 -- Evening dinner quietly turned into wake March 8 -- Pink-clad gorilla halts bidding March 7 -- Award of Merritt is most roadworthy March 6 -- Educator adds personal touch to Chicken Soup March 2 -- Alamo, Petroleum Club mark last stands March 1 -- Long-range predictions cloaked in secrecy Feb. 29 -- Big Mo arose from slave battalion Feb. 28 -- Show popped with marriage proposal Feb. 24 -- Garlic, bug scrapers and rain divert farmers Feb. 23 -- Drought good excuse to eject undesirables Feb. 21 -- Newest Winters resident still prefers old store Feb. 17 -- Old coach still sweet on West Texas Feb. 16 -- Senate-House redistricting visitors met with surprises Feb. 15 -- Nudes, crudes are old hat for Perinis Feb. 14 -- Gregory Peck sweetens deal for pastors wife Feb. 10 -- Undertaker took last ride in old hearse Feb. 9 -- New millionaires heart is on ice Feb. 8 -- Black history revue should be a Thriller Feb. 7 -- Caribbean native did quite a bit of doctoring Feb. 3 -- Lapham career spanned Buddy Holly to budding reporters Feb. 2 -- Legion pulls rank on own auxiliary Feb. 1 -- Former Abilenian thick in political mix Jan. 31 -- Cats relieved after Doc left town Jan. 27 -- Man of century is still making history Jan. 26 -- Bovines eclipse politicos in Iowa Jan. 25 -- Moon has everybody acting loony Jan. 24 -- Pottery students dusting off the past Jan. 20 -- Successor hails from Home of Fighting Sand Crabs Jan. 10 -- The Good Oil Days - Petroleum Clubs heyday just a memory now Jan. 6 -- Filling station had a gas selling Y2K fuel Click to see Bill's 1999 columns by CLICKING HERE Please see Bill's 1998 columns by CLICKING HERE Please see Bill's 1997 columns by CLICKING HERE April '96 ... May '96 ... June '96 ... July/August '96 Sept. '96...Oct. '96...Nov/Dec. '96...Jan/Feb. '97 Search for Bill Whitaker stories featuring the word(s): from the year: 2000 1999 1998 1997 Search current site: Search archives for: © 1995-2003/2004 The E.W. Scripps Co. and the Abilene Reporter-News. All Rights Reserved. Site users are subject to our User Agreement. We also have a Privacy Policy.