The Grouch Crowd I made a T-shirt today that read “Proud member of the Grouch Crowd” to wear to town when I go shopping. The editor’s disdain for the seniors, “those that played in the dirt more than half a century ago,” is sorely misplaced when it comes to voting in elections. The last elections I ...

State Capitol Highlights AUSTIN — Texas lawmakers have yet to cast final votes on the marquee issues of the 86th regular session of the Legislature: the state budget, school finance reform and property tax relief. Conference committees named by House Speaker Dennis Bonnen and Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick, w...

LOOKING BACK AT ... If you remember Iron Brew, you’ve been around Gillespie County for a while. For everyone else, Iron Brew is not moonshine cooked up in a rusty kettle but a legendary soft drink once bottled by the Kraus family of Fredericksburg. The origins of Iron Brew are as mysterious as Donal...

LOOKING BACK AT ... Hindsights When a native of Papua, New Guinea stumbled upon the wreckage of a B-24 bomber, he solved a 50-year-old mystery and hel...

EDITORIALS The place to be on Thursdays early evening is Marktplatz’s Kinder Halle, where the seasonal and annual Fredericksburg Farmers’ Market is un...

Lawn & Garden Let me introduce myself. My name is Beth McMahon and I’m the Horticulture Extension Agent for Gillespie County. One of the duties of my ...