It is easy to see Create Healthy is spending $35 million to expand the Wellness Center and immediately judge it as wasteful and extravagant. The question crossed my mind when I first saw that number. At the same time, I really respect Create Healthy’s board and leadership, so I knew there must be a ...

When Emil Birck of Fredericksburg described his business as a full-service gas station, he wasn’t kidding. Customers could pull in for a tank of gas, an oil change, a lube job and a sack of barbecue for Sunday dinner. “My dad learned to cook barbecue as a youngster,” Milton Birck, son of Hill Countr...

What about water? I want to commend your recent coverage of the Hollmig Lane annexation. The article did a solid job outlining the city’s development plans and council discussions. However, I was disappointed to see a recurring concern left out — one that has been voiced at nearly every public meeti...

Everyone in Fredericksburg knew when President Johnson came to town. Those guys in dark suits and sunglasses came out of the woodwork. Congress establ...

It’s 3 a.m. and you’ve been asleep for hours. So, your heart is instantly pounding when you hear loud voices and banging at your front door. You open ...

In a recent newspaper commentary, Sandy Goff, a former executive director of the HCMH Foundation, was critical of the proposed $35-million expansion o...