The smoking and drying of meats and other perishable foods reaches back beyond written history across the Americas, so much so that when French explorers sailed into the pre-colonial Caribbean, they found locals preserving food with smoke on grates called “boucains.” Thus, in French, these obviously...

         

Some called me a saint. Most called me an idiot. Both labels were bestowed upon me when I explained that I’d be spending my Christmas break driving 10 Boy Scouts from Troop 137, ranging in age from 13 to 15 years old, 1,500 miles to the Minnesota-Canadian border to sleep outside in subzero temperatu...

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Local and area schools are set to return to school in January. All school systems in Fredericksburg and Gillespie County will remain closed through th...

Thirty-five Gillespie County youth participated in the Fall 2018 District 10 4-H Roundup Dec. 7-8 in Kerrville. And as a result of their placings, sev...