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Quiche Lorraine: Wartime favorite finds new life
Gillespie Life, Taste
Quiche Lorraine: Wartime favorite finds new life
Culinary Adventure Mark Wieser 
August 20, 2025
We never had quiche in the 1950s. Its existence had never appeared in my dad’s weekly Saturday Evening Post or Collier’s, but a recipe might have appeared in my mom’s monthly copies of Better Homes and Gardens or Ladies’ Home Journal. Although she clipped recipes from the San Antonio Light, I found ...
Sweeney, Hauser shine in modern Western ‘Americana’
Gillespie Life, Movies
Sweeney, Hauser shine in modern Western ‘Americana’
BY MATT WARD 
August 20, 2025
Cinematic Considerations The modern-day anthology “Americana,” which evokes both the Coen brothers and Quentin Tarantino, should have had fervent box office potential for adult audiences who will flock to theaters this fall for heavier dramatic fare. After acquiring first-time director Tony Tost’s W...
Gayne shares the Legend of the Clearwater Beach ‘Monster’
Gillespie Life, Outdoors
Gayne shares the Legend of the Clearwater Beach ‘Monster’
by Gayne C. Young 
August 20, 2025
Outdoors On Edge Very strange things were afoot in Clearwater Beach, Florida in the late 1940s. The discovery made along the small coastal town just after World War II, would terrorize locals, fascinate the nation, and take nearly four decades to fully comprehend. Our story began in 1948, when indiv...
Fifteen girls vying for court crowns
Community, Gillespie Life
Fifteen girls vying for court crowns
August 20, 2025
In order to showcase the talents and personalities of contestants for this year’s Gillespie County Fair Court, the contest committee has made changes ...
Zahara ‘thriving’ after tail amputation
Gillespie Life
Zahara ‘thriving’ after tail amputation
August 13, 2025
Zahara, a two-year-old Russian Blue mix, is available for adoption now at the Hill Country SPCA, 2981 Texas 16 South. Animal care specialists made not...
Buster in need of home
Gillespie Life
Buster in need of home
August 13, 2025
Buster, a one-year-old Border Collie mix, has been awaiting adoption at the City of Fredericksburg Animal Shelter for the past three months. “He gets ...
Phil on aphorisms like ‘Peaches, peaches, hole in your breeches’
Gillespie Life
Phil on aphorisms like ‘Peaches, peaches, hole in your breeches’
Phil Houseal 
August 13, 2025
An ominous adage delivered in a pleasing rhyme like “My nose itches. I smell peaches. Someone’s coming with a hole in his britches.” could portend doo...
Gillespie Life
Science Mill hosts ‘Sips & STEM’ workshop
August 13, 2025
The Science Mill will host “Sips & STEM: Shibori Dyeing Workshop” for adults from 4:306 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 16, at the museum in Johnson City. The new...
Gillespie Life
Two Gillespie students graduate from UT Austin
August 13, 2025
The University of Texas at Austin celebrated the accomplishments of more than 9,000 spring graduates during commencement ceremonies for its 142nd grad...
Gillespie Life
Final summer farmer’s market set for Thursday
August 13, 2025
The final summer Fredericksburg Farmer’s Market (FFM) is scheduled for Thursday, Aug. 14 at Marktplatz. Shoppers can meet farmers, ranchers, chefs, ar...
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