High school sports’ status up in the air

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News Staff, on April 7, 2020

In accordance with the executive order issued by Governor Greg Abbott mandating schools remain temporarily closed through Monday, May 4, due to COVID-19 (coronavirus), the University Interscholastic League (UIL) is further modifying contingency plans and extending its previously announced timeline for

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50 YEARS AGO in the Standard

February 25, 2026

FEBRUARY 25, 1976 Members of Youth Organization United, and their friends heard a black minister in his 80s talk to them and all that had gathered for...

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Sisterhood for good raises $6,500 for food pantry

February 25, 2026

The Fredericksburg chapter of Sisterhood for Good raised $6,500 for the Fredericksburg Food Pantry during its annual Dessert Dash event. During the ev...

Preparing hearts for Easter: The Two Debtors

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LENTEN DEVOTIONALS FROM HOLY GHOST LUTHERAN

Preparing hearts for Easter: The Two Debtors

By Doyle Moellering

February 25, 2026

Jesus said: “A certain creditor had two debtors; one owed five hundred denarii, and the other fifty. When they could not pay, he canceled the debts fo...

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DOSS NEWS

By Betty Hahn

February 25, 2026

Our community was saddened to hear of the passing of Clifford Spaeth. Sympathy to his wife, Karen Geistweidt Spaeth, daughters and their families. His...

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Create Healthy opens scholarship applications

February 25, 2026

High school seniors, college students encouraged to apply by March 31 Create Healthy has opened applications for its 2026 Student Scholarship Program,...

Gillespie Life, Taste

Indulge with Governor Allen Shivers’ Tipsy Pudding

Stories from the F&W Farmstead Mark Wieser & Case Fischer

February 25, 2026

Doug Hubbard, who compiled “Favorite Recipes of Famous Texans” in 1988, was not an outsider to Fredericksburg. By the mid-1970s, he was serving as Exe...

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