Kathleen Skeen, left, receives her fifty-year Eastern Star membership pin from husband Winston, also a member of the Bandera chapter of the Eastern Star. Worthy Matron Nancy Trenkelbach, back, and ...

I’ve been to a few basketball games to watch the Medina High School boys play throughout the years, wondering if we would ever get back to the state basketball championship. So far, it hasn’t happened ...

The Medina FFA wool judging team braved a dramatic shift in Texas weather during a multi-day competition tour that began in 90-degree heat and ended in snow. The team traveled from South Texas to ...

“BE IT RESOLVED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: SECTION 1.Article I, Texas Constitution, is amended by adding Section 37 to read as follows: Sec.37. a)A parent has the inherent right to ...

U.S. Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas, reintroduced legislation Thursday aimed at incentivizing manufacturers to move their operations from foreign countries to the United States. The bill, known as the “BEAT ...

His mom is my mom’s younger sister. Not only that, but his mom is my godmother, and my mom is his godmother. It’s a tangled web we weave, for sure. To protect his identity, we’ll call him “Jake”, but ...

I’ve gone through many changes since moving to Bandera in 2019. Becoming a member of a political minority was a new experience for me, coming from left-leaning urban and suburban settings before. As I ...

Sometimes it’s like I just woke up one day and everything around me had suddenly changed. Don’t even recognize half the folks I see anymore when I venture out to the OST for breakfast. I usually see ...

Visitors from around the world flock to Bandera for its rustic charm and wide range of stays—from cozy bed and breakfasts to scenic guest ranches—and now, as of October 2023, a unique new option ...

“The best sermons are lived, not preached.” That’s a phrase that people have shared in faith-based conversations and it’s often been in some form of a viral meme the cowboy crowd has shared numerous ...

COURTESY PHOTOS A total of 17 youth and 12 adults, spearheaded by Ellinora, Esther and Ezra Groot and their parents Ace and Renee, pose after working together to haul trash and continue local Don’t ...

Inflation is falling in spite of repeated, embarrassing predictions by opponents of President Donald Trump’s tariffs of both parties that prices would rise in response to his tariffs on Canada, Mexico ...