On March 19, 1977, at 2:30 in the afternoon, a lone mud dauber flew in low over South Grape Creek, darted around for a few minutes and landed on an empty beer can. The crowd of 8,000 went wild, scaring the daylights out of the nervous little critter who immediately lit out in the direction of Cain C...

This week, the housing crunch in Fredericksburg hit home with our company. We are losing a great employee and her husband to a market close to Houston. They are two very hard-working people and we wish them nothing but the best. And while family connections were partly responsible for their move, we...

We don’t often take up sports issues in this space, but the sports world lost an influential athlete over the weekend — one who reached into succeeding generations. Los Angeles Lakers legend Kobe Bryant was killed Sunday, along with his daughter and seven other people, in a helicopter crash near Los...

As the driver turned the lumbering Pickwick-Greyhound bus off Route 66 for a construction detour that distant pre-dawn, most of his passengers slept o...

No bypass petition TxDOT has revealed its technically preferred route for the 70-mph, I-10-type highway designed to bypass Fredericksburg, which bring...

It feels good. I Optimism about our industry, that is. It was in the air in Galveston last weekend at the Texas Press Association’s 140th Convention a...