June 2025

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What is more quintessential than Summertime in Texas and Fredericksburg Peaches? Not much, if you ask me. Growing up in Texas, a trip during the summer always meant a trip to the Hill Country to pick the peaches right off the tree. Nowadays, multiple orchards supply these sweet fruits.

We belong to God. Jesus tells us we belong to Him, and so we also belong to the Father who sent Him. So what is so special about that? All of creation belongs to God.

Dear Neil, This oak was planted a few years ago. Initially, it was diagnosed with sun scald. Despite measures to try to help it, it just seems to be going downhill. There was new growth when it budded out this spring, but now much of that has died back.

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While the summer sun beats down on Far West Texas, pounding the horny toads into submission, Alpine High School student-athletes are rising early, not for leisure or video games, but for sled pushes, plyometric drills, and weight training.

Gov. Greg Abbott says he got everything he pushed for during the Legislature’s 89th session, which ended on June 2.