Spots are filling for the Sept. 6 Hill Country Child Care Providers Conference at the Gillespie County AgriLife Extension Building, 38 Business Court, Fredericksburg. The event will include concurrent sessions on Music and Movement, Nature Walk and Parachute Play and Feeding Young Children with Spec...

Lawn & Garden The diminutive but destructive chinch bug is here, and it has arrived to party on your lawn. It’s not a party that you may necessarily see, though you will notice the aftereffects. Chinch bugs are tiny insects the size of a pen tip. They suck the sap out of grass plants, but inject bac...