EDITORIALS When shoppers spend money at a local store, it is a huge benefit to our economy. When money is exchanged locally — on or off Main Street — owned by “Jill,” she uses that money to pay her employees. That employee uses her income to pay her landlord, who uses the rent money to pay his maint...

LOOKING BACK AT ... Hindsights Buffalo Cave, near Johnson City in Blanco County, has been a place of mystery since cattlemen first discovered its dark entrance while grazing herds along the Pedernales River in the 1800s. Only a small number of people have been inside. For everyone else the undergrou...

‘Drinkery Row’ a reality I was encouraged to see another accurate assessment of reality in Ken Cooke’s editorial last week in the Standard . Ken points out the concerns of the Estensons, long-time owners of some of Fredericksburg’s most popular business establishments. Though discussed from their po...

GUEST COLUMNIST America could use a good food fight this Thanksgiving. Every day in our country, factions grow and battle lines harden. Americans are ...

Bypass width A lot of ink has been dedicated to this controversial “bypass” for Highway 290 in Gillespie County. No doubt one is needed. I drive on an...

vate quality over quantity. 7. Family. Even ones with dysfunction brought us into this world and shaped us to be stronger. For most of us, this is the...