The travel industry has had its ups and downs for the past several years. With COVID- 19 related shutdowns and economic instability, many people are viewing vacations differently than they once did. Cheryl Sowder is a travel advisor who lives in Harper and owns her own franchise with Cruise Planners...

MY 2 CENTS About this time each year, I remember my parents planting a garden. My father would till the soil. Mom would inventory seed packets and shop for starter potatoes and plastic cartons of herb plants. I would always tag along when she went to the nursery, loving its loamy aroma and colorful ...

Applications for the Texas Travel Industry Recovery Grant (TTIR) program, administered through the Texas Economic Development & Tourism Office, opened Feb. 1 for a new application category. The TTIR Program provides reimbursement grants of up to $20,000 for the recovery of Texas businesses in the to...

After completing her residency in internal medicine at Charity Hospital in New Orleans in 1989, Dr. Ruthie Harper spent a decade working as the direct...

Leadership Gillespie County (LGC) continued its program with a March 1 session focused on state government. The 2023 class participated in its seventh...

For the Lenten season, my pastor is delivering a series of messages, using renovation as a metaphor. In his first sermon, he reminded us that renovati...