While scientists race to develop a COVID-19 vaccine, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott is urging everyone to get a flu shot.
Texans need to do their part to keep moving forward the state’s recovery from the pandemic, the governor said. Last week, he also eased restrictions placed on businesses in most of Texas.
In a new public service announcement, Abbott reminded Texans that flu season already has arrived.
Editor’s note: This is a special reprint of the events occured on August 30, 1970.
The people came by the thousands Saturday for the dedication of the Lyndon B. Johnson State Park located across the Pedernales River from the L.B.J. Ranch and birthplace of Former President Lyndon B. Johnson.
A mass of people estimated at from 6,000 to 8,000 hear Lt.
Buttons were once a big business in Stonewall, Texas. And if you think buttons aren’t important, just try keeping your britches up without one.
Button makers used seashells, bone, paper mache and wood to make buttons until plastics took over the whole world in the 20th century.
In 1945 B. B. Bohls and his wife Lydia Lindig Bohls founded Capitol Plastic Art Company in Austin.
The early settlement of the German Hill Country was no orderly process but was often confused, arbitrary and disorganized. The accomplishment was as much a product of spur-of-the-moment decisions and seat-of-the-pants improvisation as forethought, coordination and long-term strategic planning. That Fredericksburg is on Barons Creek, and not someplace on the San Saba River, is as much a twist of fate as anything else.
After Texas became an independent country in 1836, there were millions of ...
The line of slow-moving cars, brake lights glowing, was backed up all the way to Grapetown Cemetery. It was a sight I’d come to expect on I-10 between Boerne and San Antonio but not in Bankersmith, Texas, population 0.
Bankersmith sits about halfway between Fredericksburg and Comfort on the Old San Antonio Road.
1. Divide perennial flowers such as hosta, oriental poppies, lilly, daylily, ornamental grasses, and bearded iris.
2. Add fall color.
3. Replace annual flowers.
4. Repot houseplants.
5. Wage war on weeds.
6. Plant perennials and shrubs
7. Water evergreens.
8. Harvest herbs.
9. Consider fertilizer.
10. Harvest any remaining root vegetables.
And if you have cucumbers, tomatoes, or okra that has gotten past their prime, consider saving them for seed.
Fredericksburg-The Education Department at the National Museum of the Pacific War (NMPW) was just named Connect2Texas’ Outstanding New Program for Distance Learning in our region. Connect2Texas is a network of Texas-based educational content providers including museums, authors and cultural, historical and scientific organizations. These providers utilize interactive videoconferencing to deliver live programs and professional development to school children and educators across the globe.
Fredericksburg took it hard when workers demolished the original Vereins Kirche in 1897 and almost immediately made plans to build a new one, exactly like the old one, out of the traffic flow, not 200 feet from where the original Vereins Kirche stood in the middle of Main Street.
The present has always mingled with the past in Fredericksburg.
Let’s search together for capital ideas
Ed Sterling wrote this column for almost three decades, so let’s open by celebrating his contributions to the Texas Press Association and its members. Ed was the calm, steady voice keeping us informed and interested.
I am honored to have been asked by Mike Hodges, TPA executive director, and Donnis Baggett, executive vice president, to continue the important work of keeping Texans up to date on what’s happening in Austin.
The following column is one that I first wrote several years ago, during another hot, dry summer. Unfortunately, our climate conditions have not changed, nor have the ways to save water, so it seemed appropriate to run it again today.
By now most all the native grasses have gone dormant, many forbs and some shrubs are beginning to wilt and a few are dropping leaves.
