College students seeking teacher certification are invited to apply for grants being offered by the Gillespie County Retired Teachers Association. These $1,000 grants will be awarded to selected Gillespie County residents who are actively pursuing teacher certification, either locally or outside Gil...

Forging Futures Education Fund continues to accept scholarship applications from Gillespie County residents. Application deadline is March 15, 2026. The fund offers grants and scholarships based on academic achievement and financial need to students planning to attend accredited institutions that of...

Recently, I had to embark on something I haven’t done, nor had the desire to do, for three decades — travel. More specifically, I had to undertake a cross-country car trip. In my youth, traveling coast to coast and border to border was in my blood. In fact, I couldn’t wait to get off the farm to see...

Tex-Mex was still Texas’ bestkept secret at the beginning of the 1960s. It remained largely unknown outside San Antonio and South Texas, and even thos...

Writer/director Scott Cooper takes a second stab at a musical drama after his award-winning 2009 film, “Crazy Heart,” based on Hank Thompson’s life, w...

The Devils River is no longer accessible via Lake Amistad. My wife, Cheryl, and I discovered this last weekend during a visit to the Lone Star State’s...