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’s Nightclub in Austin. There, he watched the pioneer of zydeco music Clifton Chenier perform in the 1970s. Last year, Nicholas sang vocals on a tribut...

HOUSE “It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up...

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 First Presbyterian Church. Included is a recipe titled, “To Cook Cornfield Peas,” submitted by the Honorable Joseph C. Hutcheson. At the time, Hutcheson...

HOUSE Grammar Grouch If I had to learn to read today, I would be illiterate. Like most of you, I learned to read and write a lifetime ago. I’ve been a...

Prospero and Leticia Medina, of Edinburg, and Case and Deanna Fischer, of Fredericksburg, announce the engagement of their daughter and son, Katya Med...

ALUMNI Hall of Honor The first Fredericksburg Independent School District Alumni Hall of Honor induction ceremony is set for Saturday, March 7 at 5:30...