FULL HOUSE ’Tis the season for that unsettling rite of spring that comes to all multi-generational households: the music recital. To this day, I remember my first piano recital at age 8. It was in the Methodist church basement in my small hometown. I squirmed in my metal folding chair, hair oiled, f...

When a Gillespie County Communications Center dispatcher picked up a 911 call on Saturday, Feb. 24, she knew it was serious. “The labored breathing and her voice (tipped me off),” said Stacy Martin, a 12-year veteran dispatcher. “You could hear the panic in her voice, and you could hear the wheezing...

Expeditions don’t always go as planned. Or maybe that only happens to me on my expeditions. In my many years of writing about the outdoors, I’ve had plans changed and canceled, seen hosts get ill, bail, or ghost me, and had laws that weren’t usually enforced — enforced on me. Because of this and man...

A program of works ranging from “Ave Maria” and “Nearer My God To Thee” to “Shenandoah” and “Drunken Sailor” will mark a concert featuring the male vo...

Eighteen Fredericksburg High School students in the 2024 iOpener class will host a free day camp on Saturday, April 20. The annual youth leadership cl...

The Gillespie County A&M Club’s annual Aggie Muster is set for Sunday, April 21. The annual tradition will pay tribute “to those who have gone before ...