Cinematic Considerations After having come out of nowhere to win a best supporting actor Oscar in 2023 for “Everything Everywhere All At Once,” Ke Huy Quan is the kind of movie star Hollywood should be celebrating and building films around. When approached for his latest project, “Love Hurts,” Quan ...

Outdoors On Edge He was born into a family of sharecroppers and orphaned by the age of eight, yet faced every hardship as it came to go on to become the first man to reach the North Pole. His name was Matthew Henson and like most men of color who came of age in the late 1800s, recognition of his tru...

World’s record bid to Len Weinheimer for GC Steer $50,000 paid at Houston Livestock Show In 1975, the Weinheimer brothers took grand champion honors at the San Antonio and Houston livestock shows. This is the story and headline from the March 5, 1975 edition of the Fredericksburg Standard. $50,000! ...

Applications for the Flora Wertheim Scholarship, offered by the Gillespie County Historical Society, are now open for high school seniors in Gillespie...

The first annual William Kerr chess tournament was held on Monday, Jan. 27 at Java Ranch Coffee House. First place went to Tommy Hays and second place...

Sam Houston State University in Huntsville announced that four Gillespie County students were included on the fall 2024 Dean’s List of Academic Honors...