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World-ranked swimmer headed the FHS swim team
Sports
World-ranked swimmer headed the FHS swim team
By Johan Villatoro Special to the Standard-Radio Post 
July 2, 2025
A former world-ranked swimmer who dedicated his life to teaching science and coaching high school swimming retired this year. James Lorys, 62, placed eighth at the 1980 U.S. Olympic Trials in the 1,500-meter freestyle and was ranked 10th in the world. He swam at the University of Iowa, where he stud...
Local cadet rises to challenge at NJROTC leadership camp
Education, Gillespie Life
Local cadet rises to challenge at NJROTC leadership camp
By Major Devin Mullen 
July 2, 2025
Over four demanding days at Texas A&M University – Kingsville, Fredericksburg High School Navy Junior Reserve Officers Training Corps (NJROTC) Cadet Morgan Leedy proved that leadership, citizenship, service and personal discipline aren’t just words — they’re a way of life. Representing her hometown,...
Pfannkuchen arrived same time as Meusebach
Gillespie Life, Taste
Pfannkuchen arrived same time as Meusebach
Culinary Adventure Mark Wieser 
July 2, 2025
Pfannkuchen are among my favorite breakfast foods. We called them Pfann-akuchen. My mom’s were rather thick but rightly about the size of a saucer. When we still had a wood-burning kitchen stove, she poured the batter right on the stove top. In 1952, we got an electric range, and those stove-top pan...
All gas, no brakes: ‘F1’ puts audiences behind wheel
Gillespie Life, Movies
All gas, no brakes: ‘F1’ puts audiences behind wheel
BY MATT WARD 
July 2, 2025
Cinematic Considerations Director Joseph Kosinski, best known for his massively popular nostalgia sequel “Top Gun: Maverick,” returns to the world of ...
Tales from the trails: Texas Game Warden Field Notes
Gillespie Life, Outdoors
Tales from the trails: Texas Game Warden Field Notes
July 2, 2025
Texas Game Warden Field Notes was published by the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department on Feb. 10, 2025. Venom and vice A Milam County game warden rec...
Hee-hawing around town
Community, Gillespie Life
Hee-hawing around town
By Michaela Rush Standard-Radio Post reporter 
July 2, 2025
Asmall crowd gathered around the Old Fair Park soccer field Sunday, June 29, to ooh and ahh as they watched a striped zebra, who was on the pitch enjo...
Commentary
Screwworm response welcomed for ranchers
July 2, 2025
Governor’s task force hopes to head off livestock threat Arenewed threat looms over Gillespie County’s agricultural community — one that hasn’t been s...
Commentary
Keep young minds sharp this summer
July 2, 2025
The most critical time of year for students is not the period for six weeks tests or the stress-inducing, end-of-year STAAR test. Rather, it is summer...
Vouchers could change homeschool landscape
Commentary
Vouchers could change homeschool landscape
TEXAS PRESS ASSOCIATION STATE CAPITAL HIGHLIGHTS By Gary Borders 
July 2, 2025
The passage of the state’s first voucher program means homeschool families in Texas will soon be eligible for up to $2,000 to use toward educational c...
What I love about our small town
Commentary
What I love about our small town
Guest Column By Mary Lynn Johnson 
July 2, 2025
(Editor’s note: The following was adapted from a letter written to a friend.) Know what I like about small towns in America? Their unique sameness. Co...
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