San Felipe News

Hello fellow Texans and friends of Texas. Today is Saturday, July 23, 2011. On July 23, 1798, Jane Herbert Wilkinson Long, called the "Mother of Texas," was born in Maryland.

Photo by Warren Pattison via Swamplot Galleria: more traffic on the way You know what the Galleria area needs? More traffic.

By CHAD THOMAS Business Editor When the door swings open at his shop, an inviting smell of leather wafts out and Jose Lucio greets visitors with a smile, speaking in a reverent tone and sentences peppered with "sir" and "ma'am." His voice bears a hint of an East Texas country drawl masked by a charming foreign accent that could only come from a ...

The Sons of the Republic of Texas will sponsor a ceremony at 11 a.m. Saturday, Sept.

While there is major buzz about hurricanes in the Atlantic Basin, the reality is that a) Houston is nowhere near the storms in question and b) it is unlikely that any place in the U.S. will be affected by Earl and Fiona.