Sports park A big thank you to our county commissioners for unanimously supporting the much-needed sports park with a $2.3 million commitment. It is wonderful to see the city and county working together to benefit our community. The county’s participation in the parks is also very appropriate as we ...

EDITORIALS We were pleased on Monday to see Mimi and Nicole Bartel and associated partners break ground for “The Beginning” housing development. This 53-lot housing addition will bring some needed relief to our current lack of options for young and working families. With the complications and unknow...

Texas Type “Now let me caution you about that second E in Fred-ER-icksburg,” Danny Hirt would tell callers unfamiliar with our town who wanted to send something to the paper via email and he wanted to make sure they didn’t misspell it. Just that small statement described parts of Danny — thoroughnes...

GUEST COLUMN Kent Myers During 2018 the community enjoyed a lot of progress and it was a very successful year. In the next several months, the city wi...

FULL HOUSE What would you be doing if you didn’t have to make a living? For Linda Morgan, the answer is easy. “Whether anyone was listening or not, I ...

Hindsights Texas frontier towns grew up around stores and saloons. Churches, schools and cemeteries came next. But a town wasn’t a town at all until i...