Columns

Many people seem to agree that spending time in nature is good for them.

Here at the Patrick Heath Public Library, we love celebrating Texas and Texas writers.

While gas prices nationwide dropped below $4 per gallon average last week, the state boasts the lowest prices in the country at an average of $3.49 — 50 cents below the national average, according to AAA Texas.

Q: I’m concerned about how our daughter treats her husband.

Michelle Hortsman, the Boerne Art League’s artist of the month, has loved art and creativity of all kinds since she was a young child. Although she does paint and draw, her main area of work is in scratchboard engraving.

The mid-term election on Tuesday, Nov. 8, will be here before you know it. If you will be out of town on Election Day and during early voting (I’m talking to you, you young folks headed away to college soon), now’s the time to apply to vote by mail (sometimes also called “absentee voting”).

Let’s have a drum roll … This is your final Friday “Coffee with Keith” column.

Any day now, students will be heading off to college – and parents will be getting out their checkbooks.

Editor’s note: This is a reprinted column from Jack Purcell’s “On the Journey” archives. It originally appeared in The Star in 2013.

Long before the days of Mario, Luigi and Donkey Kong, youngsters harkened to the likes of Fibber McGee and Molly, Dick Tracy and the Lone Ranger. Such were the stuff of the “Golden Age of Radio,” the era spanning from the 1930s through the 1950s.

Estate planning is not a one-and-done type of deal. It should continuously evolve along with your life circumstances.