WE WANT YOUR LETTERS because we value your opinion on issues in Fredericksburg and Gillespie County. Letter writers are asked to submit their name, home address and daytime telephone or cell phone number so we can contact you to verify you want your opinion published. Anonymous letters will not be r...

Voters’ experience Kudos galore go to Anissa Herrera, county elections administrator, for making sure Gillespie County early voting goes off smoothly without a hitch. It took us less than 10 minutes to park our car in the CURBSIDE voting area, be given our choice of ballots by Will, a masked young v...

While the winner of the 2020 World Series is still up in the air (as of press time the Dodgers lead the series 3-2,) one real winner this baseball season will be ESPN Radio broadcaster Jessica Mendoza.   Mendoza is acting as a radio game analyst for ESPN Radio, the first female to do so for a World ...

Masks. They are itchy. They are inconvenient. They are annoying. But what’s more annoying? Watching family members with COVID-19 struggle for breath. ...

OCTOBER 21, 1970 A new Homecoming Queen will be crowned Friday evening during halftime festivities at the Fredericksburg High School Battlin’ Billies-...

Over the past two weeks, we at our business have gotten a chance to give a retirement salute to two of the very best at their jobs in our community ne...