Our local Fredericksburg Farmer’s Market season is underway, and buyers can do a favor for their health and support local growers in the process. Fredericksburg Farmer’s Market kicked off its year, and Marktplatz will again be abuzz with trade in the best, cleanest fare that our pennies can purchase...

TEXAS PRESS ASSOCIATION STATE CAPITAL HIGHLIGHTS Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton made it official last week, announcing he will challenge U.S. Sen. John Cornyn in next March’s Republican primary. The fireworks already have begun, the Austin Amer ican- Statesman reported, with Cornyn calling his ri...

Hindsights By his own estimation, Alfred Petsch of Fredericksburg knew about 150 English words when at age 16 he enrolled at Southwest Texas State Normal School in San Marcos. He failed every subject his first year. “But the teachers were good to me,” he said, “and helped me, keeping after me to imp...

T here have been two announcements of new resort-type facilities that will bookend the town on its east and west ends. People invariably share them on...

TEXAS PRESS ASSOCIATION STATE CAPITAL HIGHLIGHTS Gov. Greg Abbott continues to push his top legislative priority, a universal school choice plan that ...

Childhood today is completely different from the 1990s and before. Where we rode bikes and played outside and read books, children now consume hours u...