Civil right leader’s ideals should still inspire, in spite of current unrest, ugliness Monday’s Martin Luther King, Jr. Day Service, held for the first time at the renovated Christiam Methodist Episcopal Church (the original church for the area’s African-American citizens) was uplifting in ways we n...

O rganizers of the second annual Fredericksburg Book Festival — numbering 100 or more on various committees — avoided the “sophomore slump” that sometimes plagues authors seeking to top a successful first novel. Saturday’s event featured more well-known speakers and more activities than in its first...

German pride laid low for much of the 20th century. Celebrating anything German raised eyebrows during WWI and WWII. Then attitudes began to soften. By the 1950s, Fredericksburg was more than ready to unfurl the Willkommen banner, tap a keg, fry a Schnitzel, organize a festival and crank up the “Bee...

Given all the political drama that has saturated the nation the last few years, it should hardly come as a revelation the heated rhetoric dominating t...

A spate of new laws took effect on Jan. 1, The Dallas Morning News reported. Here’s a brief summary of the most notable new laws now in force: • Count...

Texas Type I’m writing this dispatch from the Fredericksburg Standard’s New York office (a Double Tree Hotel lounge near La Guardia Airport). We took ...