This column will eventually be about my mom. But it starts with my first and worst phobia: fear of water. As a kid I was terrified of swimming. Looking back, this fear was not irrational. I grew up in Iowa, a good 2,000 miles from any sizeable body of water. There was no swimming pool in my hometown...

A new Gillespie County Fair Queen and her court will be crowned on Friday night as part of the 129th Gillespie County Fair. Ten girls are vying for the title of 2018 Gillespie County Fair Queen. The pageant to crown the new queen and duchesses gets underway at 7 p.m. on Friday night in front of the ...

Jack Bane, the grandson of Fredericksburg residents Jerry and Marsha Bane, isn’t your everyday 18-year-old. The young man graduated as salutatorian at his Corpus Christi high school out of his class of 400, but that wasn’t his only accomplishment. In July, Bane flew up to Oshkosh, Wisconsin all by h...

“Go outside and get the stink blown off.” Those loving words passed through my mama’s lips every time we kids got underfoot and on her nerves growing ...

Girls interested in competing in the 2018 Gillespie County Fair Queen Pageant are reminded that the deadline for submitting completed applications is ...

Harper Independent School District has announced its policy for providing free and reduced-price meals for children served under the income eligibilit...