School students are invited to participate in the annual essay contest sponsored by the Optimist Club of Fredericksburg and Optimist International. The topic for this year’s contest is: “Who is an Everyday Hero that Brings Out the Optimism in You?” Deadline to submit an entry is Wednesday, Jan. 25, ...

Hill Country Naturalist Jim Stanley We are in the middle of the “peak fall color” season, and people frequently ask, “What causes the leaves to change color?” It turns out it is a complicated sequence of events that cause deciduous trees and shrubs to turn from various shades of green to yellow, ora...

Drinking a cold glass of cocoa was once my favorite. It was prepared and set before me with plenty of sugar — I suppose it was a bribe to keep me quiet at the table. I hadn’t asked for it, and it always seemed to have been made in a hurry because there were floating clumps of bitter cocoa powder in ...

Tickets are on sale for the third annual Daddy- Daughter Dance set for Friday, Feb. 3, 2023. The annual event is hosted by the City of Fredericksburg ...

The 2022 annual campaign of the Fredericksburg Independent School District Education Foundation is under way. The goal for this year’s campaign is two...

One of an auteur’s favorite things to center their films around is the art of cinema itself. Filmmakers started off their careers as moviegoers and th...