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  • Don’t ‘bank’ on COLA

    Living overseas can be expensive. However, things like the Cost of Living Allowance, or COLA, are designed to help offset expenses occurred from the local economy. But officials stress that Airmen should not view COLA as a reliable source of income, and encourage them to save it where possible for

  • Lifestyles: Ramstein hosts 14th farmers market Sunday

    For the 14th year, the Rheinland-Pfalz Agricultural Chamber from Kaiserslautern and the city of Ramstein-Miesenbach will sponsor the big farmers' market Sunday, when Germans celebrate Thanksgiving. The market features farmers presenting their products, an animal show, historical tractors' display,

  • Lifestyles: Neustadt celebrates annual wine harvest fest

    Harvest time in Germany is also wine fest time. One of the highlights of the wine fest season is the annual German Wine Harvest Fest being celebrated in Neustadt along the German Wine Street today through Oct. 11.The German Wine Harvest Fest is considered as the vintners' Thanksgiving. For more than

  • Lifestyles: German-American Day celebrated Oct. 6

    The people in Germany and the United States have important mutual, familyand cultural ties.The German-American Day taking place on Oct. 6 of each year is a day ofcommemoration in the USA. It is to remind us of Oct. 6, 1683, when 13 Germanfamilies arrived near Philadelphia and founded German-town,

  • When you steal-- you steal from us all

    There are many thrills in this world -- bungee jumping, skydiving or parachuting just to name a few. Unfortunately, some of our Kaiserslautern Military Community citizens find other ways to get a thrill ... through shoplifting. When these people shoplift at our KMC Center and succeed, they gain the

  • MXG prepares for upcoming ORI

    Sept. 10 marked the last of the 86th Maintenance Group's ability to survive and operate classes here, prior to Team Ramstein's upcoming Operational Readiness Inspection.As other squadrons across the base don chemical gear and take cover, the 86th MXG must do the same while also carrying on with

  • Lifestyles: Morbach fest highlights plums

    The annual "Latwerch fest," or plum butter fest, will take place 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Sunday in Morbach. Visitors will be able to taste and purchase different types of fruit butter: plum butter, diet butter, apple, pear and mirabelle butter. Hella Ullinger and her helpers prepared the fruit butter

  • Lifestyles: Landstuhl hosts annual city festival

    Landstuhl will celebrate its traditional city fest today through Sunday. The annual event, sponsored by the sales promotion association of the city of Landstuhl, will feature a musical program, car show, children's activities, food specialties and Sunday shopping. A variety of 16 bands, two music

  • Lifestyles: Wurstmarkt returns to Bad Dürkheim

    Bad Dürkheim along the German Wine Street will start its traditional "Wurstmarkt," known as the world's biggest wine fest, today. For the 594th time, the event will take place on the fest grounds, next to the "Dürkheimer Fass," the world's biggest wine barrel, which actually houses a restaurant. If

  • Extra fuel rations available on case-by-case basis

    Members of Team Ramstein who find themselves in a bind with their fuel rations may be allotted additional fuel rations with prior approval from their unit commander.Two types of fuel ration increases exist -- long-term and temporary. An example for the temporary extended fuel ration is to assist