Sometimes rivals can work together. Founding fathers John Adams and Thomas Jefferson had different ideas about how this new country should move forward, but were self-aware enough to allow each other enough space to contribute. Adams knew his own shortcomings enough that he said Jefferson should aut...

Ida Gentemann was a natural at the piano. By age 5, she could play anything she could whistle or hum.  Although her feet barely reached the pedals, her fingers danced along the keyboard, playing notes with thunderous authority or as softly as a butterfly landing on a bluebonnet. Ida was born on Oct....

Dear Mr. Porter, I’m writing in response to your letter to the editor in last week’s Fredericksburg Radio-Standard Post . These letters are always the first thing that I read when our paper arrives each Wednesday, and I’ve never been disappointed by them, for good and bad. When I first read your let...

The 57th annual Stonewall Peach JAMboree saw a jam-packed rodeo arena, a new court crowned and all things peach over the weekend. “Overall, the Jambor...

A request to change zoning for a proposed hotel at the southwest corner of Friendship Lane and South Eagle Street was denied in a Monday public hearin...