HOUSE Have you heard that people are now setting up religions worshipping Artificial Intelligence? This should not be unexpected. After all, the various manifestations of AI present themselves as allknowing, all-seeing entities that provide every answer to every question, even existential ones. I co...

Strong winds and intermittent heavy rain did not stop the blacksmith’s hammer from swinging or the cannon from blasting as Fort Martin Scott State Historic Site came to life April 4 during its second annual Frontier Fest. The festival painted a picture of what daily life may have been like during th...

HOUSE How many of you coffee bean explorers have sailed the seas with Starbuck, scaled the Andes with Juan Valdez, and saved a marriage with Mrs. Olsen — only to return to a cup of instant? I was never a dedicated coffee drinker. I grew up in the days of Folger’s in a can, where my first tastes of t...

Thanks to generous donations from two Fredericksburg locals, the Heart of the Hills pregnancy center has moved to a modern ranch-style building at 520...

HOUSE Processes created to increase our security actually make us less secure. One tangible example is door locking. As home and office security becam...

Before Johnny Nicholas bought the old beer joint and gas station that would become Hill Top Café on U.S. 87, the blues singer was a regular at Antone’...