What is Medicare’s “creditable” prescription drug coverage?

Hello Toni: I turned 65 in August 2021, continued to work full-time with an HSA that has a $3,000 deductible for medical claims paid by the insurance plan, and used a prescription discount card to cover medications.

Fenceline Chatter

12-week course begins Aug. 21 The Generation Next: Our Turn to Ranch 12-week online course is open for registration. The program, offered by the Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service, takes place Aug. 21-Nov. 12. The course fee is $300, and online registration is required at https://tx.

Library Log

Dublin Public Library officially wrapped up the annual summer reading program on Saturday with the drawing of raffle prizes. As reading logs were turned in, readers earned tickets to win cool prizes thanks to generous sponsors.

Vacation and the really scary bridge

Paul and myself recently had the pleasure of taking a much needed vacation, heading south to the Beaumont area to visit with some of his extended family. Though I’ve heard tons about them and they had heard about me, it was our first meeting. I’ll admit I was nervous.

Spilling the tea on sentence fragments

Blame it all on my British roots, but I’ve never preferred coffee. I like hanging out in coffee shops. I don’t mind smelling like I’ve hung out in a coffee shop all day. But, for me, I like tea. Every morning I need my Barry’s Irish Breakfast Tea with a dash of milk and sugar.

Turning Back the pages

100 years ago July 20, 1923 In expectation of a very large attendance of co eds at the John Tarleton Agricultural College for the session of 1923-24 the girls dormitory is being fully repaired and equipped for the opening of the college in September.

Fishing report

BROWNWOOD GOOD. Water slightly stained; 84-87 degrees; 5.30 feet below pool. Black bass to 6.67-pounds are fair on jigs and topwater lures, but slow on crankbaits and soft plastic worms in 3-20 feet of water.

Berry's Picks

Watering Your Yard I do not know what has happened to El Nino and the promise of some more moisture, after some fair to good rainfall in the late spring.

Fenceline Chatter

The old health idiom “you are what you eat” also applies to honeybees. Texas A&M AgriLife Research scientists are studying how pollen diversity affects the nutritional quality of honeybee diets, including asking foundational questions about how nutrition can sustain healthier colonies.

Saving seats at the movie theater

Did you know that The Beatles’ album “Let It Be” is technically a soundtrack? It accompanies the 1970 documentary of the same title. If the film came back to theaters, I would probably go see it by myself. You see, I don’t attend many movies with groups anymore.