A local student was one of the 25 students selected to participate in a leadership program at West Texas A&M University. Ridley Strackbein, a senior animal science major and 2023 Fredericksburg High School graduate will be part of the 2025-26 Dyke and Terry Rogers Leadership Education and Developmen...

Pioneer Museum and the Gillespie County Historical Society have announced the recipient of the 2025 Flora Wertheim Scholarship. Mary Elizabeth Schultz, a 2025 graduate of Ambleside School, won the scholarship with her essay, “If I Were a Churchmouse.” The essay highlights St. Mary’s Catholic Church ...

Browsi ng through my sixth edition of the “Fredericksburg PTA’s Cookbook,” I came across a recipe for corn fritters submitted by Miss Blanche Mercer Babb. While corn fritters were of interest, the fact that the recipe was submitted by Miss Babb caught my attention. In 1947, entering the first grade ...

Texas Type No, I’m not going on vacation yet. But I will be at Marktplatz on Saturday with the rest of my fellow Rotary Club members for our fourth an...

Bills got attention, but much was left on the table to be addressed again Water is on everyone’s mind with lots of development and a finite natural re...

It is no surprise, but the small, Hill Country towns of Fredericksburg and Wimberley were among the top 100 “micro-retirement” destinations in a recen...