S cience now says those who are bookworms may be rewarded with potentially two years of additional life. A new study says avid readers live 23 months longer than their non-reading counterparts. A study published in Social Science & Medicine found the difference in those with daily reading habits and...

No one does a ‘Hallmark’ Christmas like Fredericksburg with its annual Yule festivities What a difference three decades makes. Organizers of the first Christmas parade, held here in 1994, remember there were four parade entries that year. Those floats went around Market Square twice and that was tha...

Texas Type That quote could apply to my Thanksgiving when we had a houseful of family and friends, and we gathered until our bellies hurt from both the feasting and the laughter. I had gone to my hometown to visit my parents the week before knowing we’d be out here. That is always a relaxing time, a...

The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday blocked a lower court ruling that threw out the state’s new congressional map, allowing the new districts to stay in ...

Focus on similarities instead of differences this year, and let’s heal our nation. This season of Thanksgiving let’s focus on what we have in common, ...

Fight BESS Thankfully, Hill Country citizens are becoming aware of the dangers posed to Fredericksburg and surrounding areas by the proposed lithium b...