The National Museum of the Pacific War hosted its annual Operation Pacific Assault robotics contest on Saturday, May 3. Eight local teams were tasked with building and programming a robot to accomplish tasks on a mission field related to the Pacific theater of World War II. Field missions included m...

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 the pecans when asked was a chore but shelling them was even worse. In the ’50s, one never thought of buying pecans. Native pecans were everywhere, whil...

“Nonnas,” directed by Stephen Chbosky and starring Vince Vaughn, follows Joe, a grieving middle-aged man following the loss of his mother, who uses her life insurance policy to buy a restaurant in Staten Island. Rather than hiring professional chefs to cook the food, he honors his mother by finding ...

That was the headline in the Fredericksburg Standard 100 years ago, announcing the arrival of the 2nd Division of the U.S. Army from Fort Sam Houston....

Don’t you hate when columnists write lists of disjointed observations? Me too, so you can skip this one. Still here? Okay, here we go ... If your town...

Dash is an 11-monthold 30-pound dog looking for a forever family, after spending the past eight months in the shelter at the Hill Country SPCA. “Dash ...