JANUARY 1, 1975 A wide area of the Hill Country, including Gillespie County, was hit with an ice storm Christmas week that brought widespread damage to trees and power lines. The storm arrived early Christmas Day and continued through noon on Dec. 26 when temperatures finally climbed above the freez...

Fredericksburg Independent School District (FISD) will host several Community Education events in the coming months for participants of all ages. More information on all of FISD’s Community Education programs can be found at fisd.org/communityed. Dog obedience Beginning Wednesday, Jan. 15, FISD Comm...

The Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) is committed to keeping Texans safe this holiday season. The Texas Highway Patrol (THP) will conduct its annual Christmas and New Year’s holiday traffic enforcement campaign beginning Dec. 20 and running through the rest of the year. Troopers will be out o...

Ihave eaten Sacher Torte, but I cannot remember if it was in Vienna — its home. For certain, I had never heard of it in 1964, our first trip abroad. E...

Cinematic Considerations It’s pretty much pointless at this stage to question why Disney is developing live action remakes of their animated classic f...

Outdoors On Edge At the end of last week’s Christmas- themed column, I stated that, “writing this column and receiving feedback from all of you via em...