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Herring tacos: Mixing memories, melding culture
Gillespie Life, Taste
Herring tacos: Mixing memories, melding culture
Culinary Adventure Mark Wieser 
February 5, 2025
My dad loved herring. Here in the 1950s, as now, only canned herring was available. Often my mom would open a jar. With great anticipation, both my parents delved into them, bones and all. I could have gagged, but I came to understand that for my dad they might have brought thoughts and flavors of h...
Thrills on the cheap
Gillespie Life, Movies
Thrills on the cheap
Cinematic Considerations By Matt Ward 
February 5, 2025
If writer/director Neil Burger’s latest film was on Netflix, it would be the top film on the streaming service within a week. In a tight 100 minutes, “Bridgerton” actress Phoebe Dynevor races all over the globe in an international spy thriller. The movie minimizes the frills and heightens a relentle...
White house dogs through history
Gillespie Life, Outdoors
White house dogs through history
by Gayne C. Young 
February 5, 2025
Outdoors On Edge President Donald J. Trump doesn’t own a dog. This fact makes him only the third president in United States history not to have any pets. Neither James K. Polk nor Andrew Johnson kept pets either. The last president not to own a dog was William McKinley but he did have a cat and parr...
Panic Polka is the dance of loss
Gillespie Life
Panic Polka is the dance of loss
Phil Houseal 
January 29, 2025
You’re walking out of your house for an important appointment, when you remember you misplaced your keys/wallet/ eyeglasses/portfolio/computer mouse/o...
Gillespie Life
Texas Exes plans Thirsty Thursday, highway cleanup
January 29, 2025
The Texas Exes Fredericksburg Chapter’s will hold its monthly Thirsty Thursday at 5 p.m. Thursday, February 6 at Burger-Burger, 209 East Main. The bus...
Gillespie Life
Local A&M club offers scholarships
January 29, 2025
The Gillespie County A&M Club is offering scholarships for graduating high school seniors in Gillespie County, who are accepted to attend Texas A&M Un...
January’s Night Sky Notes: The Red Planet
Gillespie Life
January’s Night Sky Notes: The Red Planet
By Kat Troche NASA Night Sky Network 
January 29, 2025
Have you looked up at the night sky this season and noticed a bright object, sporting a reddish hue, to the left of Orion? This is non other than the ...
Buck the boxer ready for adoption
Gillespie Life
Buck the boxer ready for adoption
January 29, 2025
Buck is a one-and-a-halfyear- old, 45-pound dog, who is known at the shelter for his friendly attitude. “His affectionate nature and friendly demeanor...
Grace Center to host third Legacy Society Luncheon in February
Gillespie Life
Grace Center to host third Legacy Society Luncheon in February
January 29, 2025
The Grace Center will host its Third Annual Legacy Society Luncheon to celebrate the power of legacy and community impact from 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m. Thurs...
Enjoying some ‘soul-warming’ chicken soup
Gillespie Life, Taste
Enjoying some ‘soul-warming’ chicken soup
Culinary Adventure Mark Wieser 
January 29, 2025
Icannot recall us ever having homemade chicken soup. By the time I arrived, opening a can of Campbell’s was easier. Chicken soup is considered a comfo...
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