Reckless Muse For those fathers who have yet to purchase a Mother’s Day gift on behalf of their children for the woman in their lives, I would like to offer some helpful advice. Do not, under any circumstances, no matter how practical the woman in your life may seem, buy her a vacuum cleaner. Even i...

A Texas House bill would eliminate the State of Texas Assessment of Academic Readiness test and replace it with a test comparing students’ performance to one another rather than stateset standards, the Austin Amer ican- Statesman reported. House Bill 4 would also create benchmark tests to measure st...

Stage 5 Water The Standard stated that Stage 5 water restrictions are predicted for this summer. These will result in dead trees and foliage that will make Fredericksburg a less attractive community to live in, and for tourists to visit. We are moving toward Fredericksburg looking more like El Paso,...

Sitting in my favorite wine room, watching a steady stream of cars, trucks and pink buses go by on Main Street, got me to wondering about times long a...

Cat-astrophe Sadly, I heard that Pepper the library cat has been removed. Library cats are beloved. Books have been written about them. Of course, the...

Dear Gillespie County friends and family, one and all, people of all faiths and none, people of every kind and belonging — from the Gillespie County M...