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Hanging out at The Tower
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Hanging out at The Tower
Hindsights Michael Barr 
October 14, 2020
Ever wonder how teenagers kept up with each other in the days before cell phones and instant communication? If you were a teenager in Fredericksburg in the 1960s and ’70s, cruising Main on Saturday night, you made a swing through the parking lot at The Tower Drive-In. Everyone showed up there sooner...
Accusations rock AG’s office
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Accusations rock AG’s office
News Staff 
October 14, 2020
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is battling back against seven top aides who accuse him of bribery and abuse of office. The aides delivered the accusations in a letter to the agency’s human resources director. The Austin American-Statesman and KVUE-TV obtained and first published the letter. The H...
50 YEARS AGO in the Standard
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50 YEARS AGO in the Standard
October 14, 2020
Over 200 members attended the Gillespie County Farm Bureau’s annual county convention Thursday evening at the American Legion Hall. A detailed soil survey of nearly 10,000 acres of land in and around the City of Fredericksburg has been completed. A copy of the Soil Handbook for the Soil Survey was p...
Get out and vote, no matter the motivation
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Get out and vote, no matter the motivation
News Staff 
October 14, 2020
It appears that fears about the novel coronavirus are not going to deter voters. On Tuesday morning (and the previous day, from states which began ear...
Things will get better. Yes, we know this
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Things will get better. Yes, we know this
October 14, 2020
Today marks three years since 2020 began, and who knows if it will ever end. I don’t have to say it, but since March, things have been the furthest fr...
Hearing from both sides
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Hearing from both sides
News Staff 
October 7, 2020
Cathy Collier Gillespie County Democratic Party Chair It didn’t have to be like this. Children separated from their grandparents; students learning re...
State revenue picture will be a challenge
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State revenue picture will be a challenge
News Staff 
October 7, 2020
Any estimate of projected state revenues this year will be subject to uncertainty. As sure as it seemed an economic thaw was coming to the state, we h...
Early voting starts October 13
Commentary
Early voting starts October 13
Highlights By Chris Cobler 
October 7, 2020
Gov. Greg Abbott’s executive order and a Texas Supreme Court decision changed some counties’ plans for handling mail-in ballots for the Nov. 3 electio...
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Commentary
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
News Staff 
October 7, 2020
Taxes Ken Cooke is appalled by the report that, according to The New York Times , President Trump paid minimal taxes the last few years. I’d like to o...
Recognizing a paper’s value in ‘cancel’ era
Commentary
Recognizing a paper’s value in ‘cancel’ era
Texas Type 
October 7, 2020
Last night, two of our reporters covered meetings by the Fredericksburg Independent School District Board of Trustees and the Fredericksburg City Coun...
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