Guest column If you wonder how open government laws affect you, think about these basics: The local taxes we pay. The roads we drive on. Even, sometimes, matters of life and death. Access to information through public meetings and records helps us know about the decisions elected officials are makin...

Central Texas Food Bank to study challenges here in rural Texas Gillespie County is awash in rattlesnakes and alligators, metaphorically speaking. It’s both a food desert and a swamp but one wouldn’t know it from the U.S. Department of Agriculture statistics. A food desert is an area where residents...

The Native Plant Society of Texas (NPSOT), Fredericksburg Chapter, will hear from Gillespie County’s District Conservationist Warren Day during its Sept. 23 meeting. Day is the local conservationist for the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS). He will ...

Nora Schoessow has been showing livestock since the second grade. She has shown them all: Goats, steers, a heifer, even a chicken. “I wasn’t expecting...

Living in a poem is the subject of the next Osher Lifelong Learning Institute’s (OLLI) program, which is a generative poetry writing workshop open to ...

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