logo
Submissions Log In Subscribe e-Edition
Google Play App Store
  • News
  • Business
  • Sports
  • Gillespie Life
  • Commentary
  • Obituaries
  • Classifieds
  • Public Notices
    • Place a Notice
    • View All Public Notices
  • Photos
  • Special Sections
    • News
    • Business
    • Sports
    • Gillespie Life
    • Commentary
    • Obituaries
    • Classifieds
    • Public Notices
      • Place a Notice
      • View All Public Notices
    • Photos
    • Special Sections
SPRING BREAK AT PIONEER MUSEUM
Terry Theis, a downtown street musician from Harper, played some squeeze box tunes during the living history activities at Pioneer Museum on Thursday, March 14. The Pioneer Museum saw more than 3,000 visitors throughout the spring break week. - Standard-Radio Post/Christine Granados
Community, Gillespie Life, News, Scene
March 20, 2024
SPRING BREAK AT PIONEER MUSEUM
Diego Hernandez, 2, of Sugarland, spent nearly 30 minutes playing with rubber band guns last week at the Pioneer Museum’s annual spring break program. His mother, Jaime Hernandez, right, said her other children had been looking forward to their trip to the museum  since they last visited three years ago. She and her husband Juan also brought Marianna, 5, Teresa, 8, Lucy, 10, and Giovanni, 12, who are not pictured, to explore the living history activities. Standard-Radio Post/Christine Granados

Diego Hernandez, 2, of Sugarland, spent nearly 30 minutes playing with rubber band guns last week at the Pioneer Museum’s annual spring break program. His mother, Jaime Hernandez, right, said her other children had been looking forward to their trip to the museum since they last visited three years ago. She and her husband Juan also brought Marianna, 5, Teresa, 8, Lucy, 10, and Giovanni, 12, who are not pictured, to explore the living history activities. Standard-Radio Post/Christine Granados

Paloma Sanchez, 3, from Austin, takes a squeezebox lesson from Terry Theis, a downtown street musician from Harper, who was playing the Kantsch. Sitting to Sanchez’ left just out of the frame is her grandmother, Francis, who was visiting from Paraguay. Strumming the guitar is Lee Haile.  In the background, Boerne resident Owen, 3, with his mother and father Gabri and Paul Burgeson, plays with a blowing horn. His grandmother, Tracy Burgeson from Colorado, to the right, claps to the beat of the music.

P...

Subscribe to the online newsletter:

* indicates required
ePaper
google_play
app_store
It might also interest you...
Gillespie resident dies in plane crash
Main, News
PLANE CRASH
Gillespie resident dies in plane crash
January 7, 2026
Emergency responders were dispatched to a small-plane crash on Wednesday, Dec. 31, in northern Gillespie County, near Keese-Sagebiel Road. Richard (Ra...
News
CITY COUNCIL
Chamber and CVB ask for extra funding
Food and Wine Fest receives additional $31K
By Annie Bresee Standard-Radio Post reporter 
January 7, 2026
The Fredericksburg City Council received proposals from the Fredericksburg Chamber of Commerce and the Fredericksburg Convention and Visitor Bureau as...
News
COUNTY COMMISSIONERS
Gillespie moves forward with flood siren grant
By Annie Bresee Standard-Radio Post reporter 
January 7, 2026
The Gillespie County Comissioners Court met for a special meeting on Wednesday, Dec. 31, to discuss a state grant to install flash flood warning siren...
News
WEATHER
Fires, hail, flooding and drought highlight wild year of weather
By Cary Burgess Standard-Radio Post meteorologist 
January 7, 2026
The year 2025 will go down as a wild year from start to finish with severe drought book-ending the year at the beginning and end of the year. January ...
Community shows up big for museum grounds workday
News
COMMUNITY CLEAN-UP
Community shows up big for museum grounds workday
January 7, 2026
The Gillespie County Historical Society (GCHS) and Pioneer Museum kicked off the New Year with a campus workday. GCHS board members, staff and volunte...
News
Daddy-Daughter Dance tickets still on sale
January 7, 2026
Ticket are on sale for the sixth annual Daddy-Daughter Dance. The dance is scheduled for Friday, Feb. 6, from 6:308:30 p.m., at Lady Bird Johnson Muni...

Subscribe to the online newsletter:

* indicates required
ePaper
google_play
app_store
ePaper
google_play
app_store

Fredericksburg Standard
P.O. Box 1639
Fredericksburg, TX 78624-4228
830-997-2155

8:00 AM - 5:00 PM M-F

This site complies with ADA requirements

Copyright © Fredericksburg Standard

  • Advertisers
  • Contact
  • Copyright Policy
  • Privacy Accessibility Policy