The Naval Junior Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (NJROTC) program at Fredericksburg High School is doing more than teaching military drill and physical fitness — it’s building the next generation of leaders through its new “Leadership in Action” guest speaker series. Launched earlier this semester,...

Deanna Fischer called my attention to six recipes for Congealed Meat Salads she found in the 1982 PTA Cookbook. She thought them strange — meat in Jell-0! There must be a story there. She was right. However, among my no fewer than 600 cookbooks, only one, “The Salads Cookbook,” (1972) had a recipe f...

Cinematic Considerations Amid lawsuits surrounding “Another Simple Favor” the film, which could have been a box office smash hit, was relegated to Amazon’s Prime Video streaming service earlier this month that doomed the big-budget female-driven dramedy to relative obscurity. The sequel to director ...

When I was young, we had several native pecan trees around the house, and behind my dad’s office on Main Street were several larger ones. Gathering th...

“Nonnas,” directed by Stephen Chbosky and starring Vince Vaughn, follows Joe, a grieving middle-aged man following the loss of his mother, who uses he...

The Kerrville Genealogical Society invites the public to its May 2025 program, featuring genealogist and historian T. Scott Atkinson, as he presents “...