Sheriff retiring, moving on to Border Patrol

Hill County Sheriff Don Brostrom is retiring from the sheriff's office after more than 28 years in law enforcement and nine as sheriff, but he has no plans to stay idle for long.

After his going-away party March 31, he will take the weekend off and then start his new job as a law enforcement communications assistant for U.S. Border Patrol, where he will work in the dispatch center.

The job was almost an accident, he said. It started when he was helping Border Patrol with a radio problem.

"Their technician called and asked if I could come up there and help them with one of their radios," Brostr...