Anniedotes Ireached a milestone last week when I covered my first-ever Gillespie County Youth Livestock Show. The event coincided with the beginning of a new year and my six month mark as the agriculture reporter at this paper. So, it feels like a good time for reflection. The livestock show was sur...

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...

(From the Dallas Morning News) I t seems like fewer hospitalizations and deaths from preventable diseases are a good thing. Conversely, a spike in eas...

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...