Hill Country band returns for reunion show Texas is renowned for its genre-bending songwriters and bands who defy the rules of the music business. The Cosmic Dust Devils have done their part to carry on that tradition by doing things their own way for 24 years. The rootsy rock band played stages thr...

The Texas Hill Country Cowboy Gathering begins Thursday, Nov. 2, with a 6 p.m. paella dinner and five-performer show at the InSight Gallery in downtown Fredericksburg. The event then continues with eight shows of cowboy poetry, Western swing and Western folk music Friday and Saturday, Nov. 3-4, at t...

The De La Cruz family can’t be sure when the madness started. One thing they are certain of is that scaring neighborhood children started on Halloween. Leandro De La Cruz Sr. said their “home haunt” began 20 years ago when his son, Leandro De La Cruz Jr. and his brother-in-law, Alfred Duque, hid und...

There are great teachers who feel the pull toward education from an early age, and there are great teachers who find their role almost on accident, on...

The Pride of the Texas Hill Country, the Fredericksburg High School Band program, played a double header last Saturday in contests. In the morning, Sa...