In less than a day, the 129th Gillespie County Fair gets underway for a four-day run at the fair grounds on Texas Highway 16 South, and then on Monday, the new school term begins in the Fredericksburg Independent School District. The Gillespie County Fair is the oldest county fair in Texas. This yea...

  Like many people, I’m a big fan of the movies. Even as a kid, I liked going to the cinema to watch virtually anything, and then catch “the classics” on TV. Back in the day, one of our television stations presented its “Academy Theatre” late Saturday nights, showing some of the best films ever crea...

Two recent examples of water regulation show overreach on the part of governmental institutions. The recent withdrawal of the Waters Of The United States, or WOTUS, rules are good news for landowners who would have seen increased costs of compliance from the Environmental Protection Agency, all for ...

Polo has a reputation as an obscure sport played by highfalutin Easterners with time on their hands. Many Texans, myself included, have never seen a p...

I was rinsing dinner plates when a visiting friend said, “Let’s go swimming!” The march toward nightfall had already begun and I guessed we had less t...

 I had the opportunity last week to attend the annual conference of Destinations International, a world-wide organization that the Fredericksburg Conv...