A Celebration of Life will be held at Bethany Lutheran Church for Larry Ahrens, father of D’Lynn Brandenberger, on Saturday, Jan 24 at 11 a.m. with visitation at 10 a.m. and reception to follow. St. Peter Lutheran Church will hold a congregational meeting on Sunday, Jan 25 after the 11 a.m. worship ...

The deadline is approaching to enter essay contest held by the Optimists Club of Fredericksburg. The contest, is sponsored by the local club and Optimist International, is accepting entries from students in public, private and parochial schools. Young people are prompted to write about their own opi...

Texas State University J.T. Hallford, of Fredericksburg, was named to the Texas State University President’s List for the fall semester. The President’s List recognizes st udent s who earned a 3.5 grade point average while enrolled in at least 12 GPA hours. Less than 12% of students achieved this di...

The second annual Fredericksburg Book Festival brought over 1,000 people to town for a day of thoughtful discussion, reading, poetry writing and celeb...

HOUSE Some wily entrepreneur in the Old West understood marketing. This coffee bean supplier wanted to make his beans stand out among the grizzled cow...

We had never eaten shrimp before the mid-1950s. Then an older sister (Imogene) married and moved near Galveston. On one visit she fried shrimp, though...