By Stephanie Parker’

Name an event in past or present history and Bandera, remarkably, can usually boast a tie to it. From Princess Diana to the Challenger spacecraft to the events of 9/11, Bandera County residents have been personally involved at some level.

Stephanie Parker

It took 27 years for Bandera to publish its first newspaper, The Bandera Bugle, established Dec. 3, 1880, by Phil J Stephenson and WD Ward. The two-story rock Bugle building washed away in the flood of 1900.