The other morning, I was in our local grocery store picking up the basics of life, the starting points on every grocery list ever in my life: bread and milk. As I made my familiar round, automatically tossing into my cart the same things I’ve bought every week for 30 years, for some reason I noticed...

Mickey Poole, owner of the local Comfort Inn since 2004, was seeking some new property to build a hotel and convention center in Fredericksburg. In late 2015, he came across land along the U.S. Highway 290 corridor, just past Tractor Supply, that he planned to purchase and develop. “We kept passing ...

Those of us who worked there called it “the bunker” — the old concrete and cinder block field house beneath the home side bleachers at the FHS Stadium. It was the ultimate man cave and a shrine to Gillespie County manhood. Women were not allowed inside — not that they would want to go there. Even th...

Amid all the construction underway at Fredericksburg High School is the wooden skeleton of a small building. At 580 square feet, this one-story house,...

Sometimes you wonder how differently your life might have turned out if you’d chosen another path. This came to mind when I got the chance to intervie...

In a reprise of their appearance two seasons ago, the Apollo Chamber Players will again perform here on Sunday, Oct. 16, in the second of eight 2016-1...