National Wine Day is May 25 and local wineries are giving back to education by donating a portion of proceeds to support the Fredericksburg ISD Education Foundation. Participating wineries supporting the “Pour for More” event that day include: • Lost Draw Wines; • Grape Creek Vineyards; • William Ch...

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...

The National Museum of the Pacific War hosted its annual Operation Pacific Assault robotics contest on Saturday, May 3. Eight local teams were tasked ...

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...