AMrs. Chester Faltin submitted her Broccoli Ring recipe to the 1982 edition of “A Book of Favorite Recipes” compiled by the members of the Comfort Historical Society. When looking into it, I discovered there were actually two Chester Faltins connected with Comfort. One had married Gerda Elizabeth La...

Cinematic Considerations For many cinephiles, Paul Thomas Anderson — the mind behind “Boogie Nights” and “The Master” as well as his masterpiece oil drama “There Will Be Blood” — was the greatest living filmmaker never to win an Academy Award. That all changed Sunday evening when PTA, as the veteran...

The Optimist Club of Fredericksburg and Optimist International are sponsoring an oratorical contest, and area students are invited to participate. All students in public, private and parochial schools, and those who are home schooled are invited to enter the Optimist Club Oratorical Contest. The Ora...

Originality in modern filmmaking is often talked about as if it’s disappearing, or worse yet, that a “singular vision” by a filmmaker other than a tra...

The Fredericksburg branch of the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI) of Texas Tech University (TTU) has two classes this week. For more informati...

Elizabeth Dulaney, of Fredericksburg, was elected to the Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi in February. Dulaney, an industrial engineering student at Cle...