Sports + Recreation

Helping Your Camper Work Through Homesickness

Homesickness is a common experience, especially for first-time overnight campers. Being away from home, family routines, and familiar comforts can feel overwhelming in those first few days. As parents, it’s hard not to worry. We get it. That’s why we’re here—to walk with you, equip you, and cheer you on as you help your camper grow through this experience. With decades of experience, our team knows how to walk alongside campers through these moments and help them find their footing. How We...

Sports + Recreation

Family Style: Lessons from the Dining Hall

Around here, we love the dinner table. Not just because it’s where the food is (though that’s a perk!), but because it’s where real connection happens.If you’ve ever stepped foot in one of our dining halls at camp, you’ve seen it. Every meal, breakfast, lunch, and dinner, is spent shoulder to shoulder. No screens. No distractions. Just the sound of laughter, stomping feet on benches, and campers swapping stories about the zipline, cabin devotionals, or who's going to "win" the Alpha/Omega...

Health + Wellness

The Sound of Life

Hear in Texas helps people reconnect with the voices, sounds, and moments that matter Article by Kelly Shearing | Photography by Hear in Texas & Savage Soul Media For the team at Hear in Texas, better hearing is about much more than hearing better. It’s about the moments that happen around us every day: a spouse’s voice, birds in the backyard, laughter across the dinner table, or even the sound of the wind. Those are the moments Dr. Sally, Carlos (COO), Christy (Business Development Diva)...

Life + Culture

I Still Stand

Article by Denise Zimmerman | Photography by Denise Zimmerman & Krista Fuchs People seem to enjoy guessing my age. Fifty years. Two hundred. Five hundred. The truth is, I have lost count. People count years. I count what endured. The knots along my trunk are evidence of seasons that asked more of me than others. Long before these grasses were trimmed into beauty, I learned to hold through rain, flood, drought, and wind. Somewhere along the way I was passed over on an architect's drawing of what...

Food + Beverage

The Beretta

Article and Photography by Old City Hall Restaurant Our riff on a Manhattan,  The Beretta  is served over a big rock, blending  Still Austin  Cask Strength Bourbon with rich Antica   Italian vermouth, Calvados apple brandy, orange bitters, and garnished with an orange peel in a lowball glass. The name  Beretta  is a double entendre—a nod to both the elegance of the Italian shotgun as well as the original engineer of the City Hall building. “ Beretta & Stiles Co. ” was marked all over the...

Life + Culture

Newman & Company Gives Thanks

For Rhi Newman, gratitude is woven into the people, places, and community behind Newman & Co. Article by Kelly Shearing | Photography by Newman & Company For Rhi Newman, giving back is simply part of being a local business owner. Newman & Co.’s story is closely connected to the New Braunfels community, and for Rhi, giving back is a natural way to thank the people who have been part of that story. Several local organizations are especially close to her heart, including the Children’s Advocacy...

Arts + Culture

Thankful for the Next Act

New Braunfels Performing Arts looks ahead to a new theater, bigger opportunities and a community that helped make it possible Article by Kelly Shearing | Photography by New Braunfels Performing Arts For New Braunfels Performing Arts, a new building means more than more seats and more space. It means seeing a dream Sherry Bettersworth first had in 2012 finally take shape. Over the years, Sherry and her team have made the most of their black box theater off Wald Road. It may be small, but the...

Life + Culture

The Gift of Together

EdenHill Communities gives residents more opportunities to stay connected to the people they love Article by Kelly Shearing | Photography by EdenHill Communities At EdenHill Communities, gratitude shows up in the friendships, people, and everyday moments that make a place feel like home. For Kasey Jo, Interim Sales and Marketing Manager at EdenHill Communities, gratitude comes from knowing residents have the support they need, whatever stage of care they may be in. “When I walk up to...

Home Services

From Army Service to Skilled Trades: A Shared Path at Lonestar Air Services

From Army Service to Skilled Trades: A Shared Path at Lonestar Air ServicesTwo Army veterans discover a familiar connection while building careers in Central Texas.For many military veterans, transitioning into civilian life means more than finding a new job. It means discovering where their skills, experience, and sense of purpose fit into an entirely different environment.At Lonestar Air Services, a locally owned heating and cooling company serving New Braunfels and surrounding communities...

Home Services

Smart Glass is Clever.

You’ve probably seen the videos: someone presses a button and a glass wall goes from clear to frosted. It’s impressive, and switchable glass and privacy films are showing up in more homes and offices every year.We get asked about them often, so here’s our honest take.What the technology does wellSwitchable film sticks onto existing glass. Smart glass has the technology built into the pane itself, so it usually means new windows and a bigger budget. Either one can make a bathroom window or glass...