The last day to register to vote for the March 3 primary is Feb. 2, according to the Texas secretary of state’s office. Early voting runs from Feb. 17 through Feb. 27, with Feb. 20 being the deadline for applying for a mail ballot. Prospective voters can visit the votetexas.gov website to find out i...

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...

Whether sirens or gauges, parts of Gillespie County could be spared tragedies Applying for funds to install equipment for flash flood warnings is a no...

(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...