New rebuilding fund set up to help; firefighters deserve our gratitude, support How do we even begin to say “thank you”? CrewsfromFredericksburg Fire EMS, along with volunteers from departments all over the county and assistance from the Texas Forestry Service, fought a raging, nearly 10,000-acre gr...

S torytelling can be done differently these days, and the National Museum of the Pacific War has a stellar new exhibit that does just that. On Friday, the museum and Fredericksburg Chamber of Commerce cut the ribbon on “The Rescue: A Submersive Experience,” a new exhibit inspired by a heroic 1944 re...

Catherine Freeman from Quincy, Massachusetts met Lt. Chester Nimitz over a game of bridge. The Navy sent Nimitz to Quincy in 1911 to oversee the installation of a diesel engine in the submarine Skipjack, his next command. An acquaintance from the Naval Academy introduced Lt. Nimitz to the Freeman fa...

Guest column Ican’t help but dream this time of the year. It’s the thick of winter, you see, which means I’m spending hours huddled in my home office ...

What is efficiency? Last fall, we hired an arborist, a professional in cultivating and managing trees, to examine our old oak. It had some dead limbs ...

Virus has made a return thanks to rampant misinformation O ur story quoting the local medical director about vaccines being a safe and effective way t...