One local emailed us to inquire about the census estimates ahead of the actual count, which should be out this fall. “Since we have not heard via the Census Bureau, can you estimate what the population is now?” Mary Lynn Johnson asked. We found some interesting information from the Texas Demograph...

Well, here we are again. It’s been just a year since the COVID-19 virus first made news here in America.  I was working for The Snyder News in West Texas and had just gotten home from a baseball game when the e-mails began coming in. The spring sports season was coming to an abrupt end and for the n...

Stroeher & Son, Inc. and Stroeher & Olfers, Inc. celebrated their 93rd anniversary on Friday, July 16. The event reminded me of what is great about this community. A family business for 93 years, a rarity these days, celebrating by giving back to the community that has supported them all these years...

According to numbers published in our newspaper, Gillespie County has almost 30,000 residents, of whom 11,226 have been fully vaccinated against COVID...

The departure of Democratic representatives from the state in order to prevent a quorum in the special legislative session currently under way in Aust...

Mrs. W.G. Garrett last saw her son, Lt. Victor Earl Garrett, as he went off to war in 1918. Now on a summer day in 1930, she began a long bittersweet ...