MY 2 CENTS About this time each year, I remember my parents planting a garden. My father would till the soil. Mom would inventory seed packets and shop for starter potatoes and plastic cartons of herb plants. I would always tag along when she went to the nursery, loving its loamy aroma and colorful ...

Applications for the Texas Travel Industry Recovery Grant (TTIR) program, administered through the Texas Economic Development & Tourism Office, opened Feb. 1 for a new application category. The TTIR Program provides reimbursement grants of up to $20,000 for the recovery of Texas businesses in the to...

Spring has arrived in Fredericksburg and with it comes record-numbers of visitors over last week’s spring break holiday. If that can be used as a prelude to summer, Fredericksburg and Gillespie County can likely expect to see a steady increase in visitation over the next few months. This past week, ...

Leadership Gillespie County (LGC) continued its program with a March 1 session focused on state government. The 2023 class participated in its seventh...

For the Lenten season, my pastor is delivering a series of messages, using renovation as a metaphor. In his first sermon, he reminded us that renovati...

The crowd at Fredericksburg Chamber of Commerce’s 102nd Annual Membership Banquet may have been anxious about the weather, but they shared good feelin...