Sitting in my favorite wine room, watching a steady stream of cars, trucks and pink buses go by on Main Street, got me to wondering about times long ago when the first automobiles created havoc in the neighborhood. Not that life in horse and buggy days didn’t have distractions. Horses were messy. Th...

Cat-astrophe Sadly, I heard that Pepper the library cat has been removed. Library cats are beloved. Books have been written about them. Of course, the practical reason libraries want resident cats is to deal with the mice population. Mice love to chew on books. It is a shame that a complaint by one ...

Dear Gillespie County friends and family, one and all, people of all faiths and none, people of every kind and belonging — from the Gillespie County Ministerial Association to you, I write to invite and call you to prayer on Thursday May 1, The National Day of Prayer (and to, more generally, take up...

Our local Fredericksburg Farmer’s Market season is underway, and buyers can do a favor for their health and support local growers in the process. Fred...

TEXAS PRESS ASSOCIATION STATE CAPITAL HIGHLIGHTS Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton made it official last week, announcing he will challenge U.S. Sen. ...

Hindsights By his own estimation, Alfred Petsch of Fredericksburg knew about 150 English words when at age 16 he enrolled at Southwest Texas State Nor...