Billies take three out of five games at BeYOUtiful Basketball Tournament in Austin

Addison Schoessow (2) goes up and over a Laredo United South defender for the easy bucket in the FHS girls’ season opener on Nov. 3. —Standard-Radio Post/Cary Burgess

Sports

November 15, 2023

The Fredericksburg High School Battlin’ Billies girls’ basketball team played five games in three days at the BeYOUtiful Basketball Classic at Westlake High School in Austin last week.

Obituaries

Lutz Gunter Henschel

Sherrie

November 27, 2023

Lutz Gunter Henschel, 66, of Fredericksburg, died Friday, Sept. 15, 2023. A celebration of his life will be held from 5-7 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 3, at the ...

Commentary

Texas blessings are reasons to give thanks

November 22, 2023

T his season of Thanksgiving, let’s focus on the gifts life affords us, not the kind wrapped in colorful paper, but those for which we have been bless...

Commentary

FISD agreement could provide housing stipend

November 22, 2023

EDITORIALSIt’s just a memorandum of understanding, but it could lead to an improved situation for the Fredericksburg Independent School District.Last ...

Gillespie Life

The first and last White House Thanksgiving raccoon

OUTDOORS ON END By Gayne C. Young

November 22, 2023

Raccoon was once considered for the main course for Thanksgiving Dinner at the White House. The First Lady intervened and made the trash panda a pet i...

Gillespie Life

‘Powerless’

BY MATT WARD

November 22, 2023

Cinematic ConsiderationsThe fatigue is real. It’s honestly getting tiresome to have to have the same discussion after each new Marvel Cinematic Univer...

Gillespie Life

Comfort food: Mrs. Weiser’s turkey dressing

Mark Wieser & Case Fischer

November 22, 2023

CULINARY ADVENTURENothing brought more comfort and joy to major holidays in the Wieser household than the aromas associated with my mother preparing a...

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