Charlie Kiehne, the mayor of Fredericksburg, and his friends, Larry Pyka and Arthur Wunderlich, changed my flat tire last Thursday night. Talk about a hands-on politician! I came out to the car I was driving from teaching my Community Ed class to find a completely flat tire. I could have changed it ...

Fellow Texans can squarely put the blame on our governor(?) for the COVID pickle we find ourselves in. The numbers of cases of hospitalizations and of deaths are skyrocketing, especially among his unvaccinated base. Yet his policies remain unchanged. “Damn the virus, full speed ahead!” Don’t change ...

Local youths who participated in the summer reading program at Pioneer Memorial Library received their awards Saturday morning at Milam Hall. Top reader was Chrissy Schmidt with 161 books; Verna Rendon, 141; Patsy Kott, 125, and Susan Stroeher, 116. The Gillespie County Old Teamsters Association wil...

A heartfelt thank you to the Good Samaritan, Ron, the bicyclist, who saw a parishioner falling in the street, alerted our clergy and remained with her...

There have been huge changes in Gillespie County over the past 25-plus years. But County Judge Mark Stroeher has always been there to steer county gov...

Lately I’ve been thinking a lot about last times. Not the last times in the biblical sense, but as in the last time you say, see or do something. Do y...