MY 2 CENTS When my grandmother was a young woman, she and her cousin spent a Saturday morning washing the car of a cousin’s parent, then convinced the parents to let them take the car into Fredericksburg to mail a letter. A horse, buggy and lots of shoe leather had been my grandmother’s transportati...

Leadership Gillespie County held its third session on Wednesday, Nov. 1 to explore healthcare. The session was planned by class members Emily Mochan, Kelby Berry and Shelby Collier. Affordable Movers provided breakfast for the class as they gathered for the day at Methodist Hospital | Hill Country. ...

Main Street in Fredericksburg has seen considerable change in the past couple of years. The loss of some of downtown’s most recognizable shops — Phil Jackson’s Granite and Iron Store, The Christmas Store and Dooley’s 5, 10, and 25¢ Store — has contributed to a different look at what many retailers a...

Dr. Ray Perryman, one of the Lone Star State’s foremost economists, likes Fredericksburg. “I’ve been going through this place and stopping for peaches...

Fredericksburg and Gillespie County are still slow-growing, but ahead of the curve in some areas. Development, broadband, tourism and healthcare were ...

MY 2 CENTS If you found a caterpillar and glued a tiny set of wings to its body, could it fly? Of course not. But that same caterpillar has the abilit...