The Optimist Club of Fredericksburg and Optimist International are sponsoring an oratorical contest, and area students are invited to participate. All students in public, private and parochial schools, and those who are home schooled are invited to enter the Optimist Club Oratorical Contest. The Ora...

Sheila Bingham’s “Reflections of Nature” art show will be at the Fredericksburg Art Guild for the month of April with an opening reception from 4-7 p.m. Friday, April 3. Her artwork captures the beauty of the natural world through vibrant flowers, Hill Country landscapes and glowing sunsets. A Frede...

HOUSE How many of you coffee bean explorers have sailed the seas with Starbuck, scaled the Andes with Juan Valdez, and saved a marriage with Mrs. Olsen — only to return to a cup of instant? I was never a dedicated coffee drinker. I grew up in the days of Folger’s in a can, where my first tastes of t...

My maternal grandfather, Rudy Lange (a.k.a. “Opa”), was an entrepreneur. He completed 10th grade at St. Mary’s High School in Fredericksburg before st...

HOUSE Amost pivotal change in culture happened in our lifetimes. Yet I would bet most of you haven’t recognized it. This simple conversion changed at ...

Mrs. A.C. Schwethelm’s Cheese and Pineapple Salad appeared in “Cooking in Comfort, Vol. 1,” a cookbook compiled by members of the Comfort Historical S...