Central Texas Food Bank to study challenges here in rural Texas Gillespie County is awash in rattlesnakes and alligators, metaphorically speaking. It’s both a food desert and a swamp but one wouldn’t know it from the U.S. Department of Agriculture statistics. A food desert is an area where residents...

Hindsights Sportswriters in the 1930s called basketball player Ad Dietzel the “Empire State Building of the Southwest Conference.” International journalists called him the “Eiffel Tower of the Hardwoods.” Years later, Adolph (Ad) Dietzel owned the Dietzel Motel in Fredericksburg. He lived a quiet li...

Book sale thanks This past Saturday, the Friends of the Pioneer Memorial Library annual book sale returned to its original site on the lawn at the library grounds. The Friends want to say thank you to all our hardworking volunteers and the many devoted book lovers and buyers who showed up, despite t...

Mow, mow, mow your lawn Once or twice a week; Water, water, fertilizer Repeat, repeat, repeat. Ron Stotz Fredericksburg I would like to express my gra...

The aroma of freshly brewed coffee from the corner cafe, the friendly face behind the counter at our favorite boutique, the skilled hands that built o...

More than 800 new laws are about to take effect in Texas, and they are set to bring sweeping changes to the state’s education systems, water infrastru...