Doug Hubbard, who compiled “Favorite Recipes of Famous Texans” in 1988, was not an outsider to Fredericksburg. By the mid-1970s, he was serving as Executive Director of the Admiral Nimitz Center here and later was associated for years with leadership at the Nimitz Museum, now the National Museum of ...

Cinematic Considerations Like the “Wuthering Heights” protagonist, Catherine Earnshaw, writer/director Emerald Fennell throws caution to the wind with a singular, dark, audacious take on Emily Brontë’s classic novel. Fennell remolds the narrative and subverts audience expectations in opening sequenc...

Bonnie Stewart will retire as the Harper Independent School District Superintendent after 30 years with the school system. She announced here retirement, which will be on Dec. 31, 2026 at the Harper ISD board meeting last week. No hiring decisions about the next superintendent have been made. “While...

Ayear ago, Deanna Fischer gave me a reprint of “The First Texas Cook Book,” originally published in 1883 by the Houston’s Ladies Association of the Fi...

Cinematic Considerations Few recent international Oscar nominees arrive with as much fanfare as “The Secret Agent,” a film that’s a Best Picture conte...

Twelve Fredericksburg High School art students competed in a regional arts and writing competion and two will advance to nationals. FHS artists Elizab...