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Use sunlight whenever available, switch off lights when not required and adjust heating thermostat to lower temperature when you’re not home. Draw your curtains at dusk to retain heat in your home, and make sure the curtains, or any furniture, are not blocking your radiators. Dress for the weather. When […]

DEUTSCHES WEINLESEFEST UNTIL OCT. 14, CITY CENTER, NEUSTADT/WEINSTRASSE As soon as the festive season in Bad Dürkheim is over, the next major event about the liquid gold begins in Neustadt. From late September to mid-October, the German Wine Harvest Festival offers you two very special highlights in addition to the […]

Oct. 3 marks the 34th anniversary of the reunification of the Federal Republic of Germany after the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. Based on the Potsdam Agreement signed in August 1945 at the end of World War II, Germany was divided into four sectors governed by the United […]

On Sep. 11, firefighters and military personnel gathered at the Fritz Walter Stadium in Kaiserslautern to commemorate the 23rd anniversary of the September 11 terrorist attacks.

It was an animated Wednesday afternoon in U.S. Army Garrison Rheinland-Pfalz’s Emergency Operations Center. Shuffling papers, ringing phone lines and lively conversations ceased when a resounding voice yelled “ENDEX!” in the busy operations center, signaling the end of an exercise. U.S. Army Garrison Rheinland-Pfalz held a tri-annual Full-Scale Exercise, Sep. […]

The smell of roasted bratwurst and grilled pork belly sandwiches filled the air as hundreds of citizens from the towns of Rückweiler, Rohrbach and Hahnweiler mingled with Soldiers assigned to the 95th Combat Sustainment Support Battalion before an official partnership signing ceremony began at Rückweiler’s Dorfgemeinschaftshaus on Sep. 6. The […]