Fredericksburg makes lots of lists: No. 2 Small Town in the South, according to Southern Living Magazine; One of the 10 Best Wine Travel Destinations in the World, according to Wine Enthusiast Magazine; and so on. Now, an organization called LendEDU, has Fredericksburg as one of the top small town...

One day last week, I was searching for an article in the bound edition of the 1955 Standard when I ran across a notice listing all of the “School Closings” that would occur across the county in the coming weeks that year. Because of the number of rural schools located in Gillespie County back then, ...

Amazing as it seems, there are still motorists hitting the road without buckling up. One can point to statistics about the effectiveness of seatbelts, or even rudimentary science (like inertia) that a body will continue to move in a car if the car stops suddenly and the passenger is not buckled in. ...

“The arts are essential to any complete national life. The state owes it to itself to sustain and encourage them…. Ill fares the race which fails to s...

Last weekend, I got to return to a place I hadn’t been in 14 years — the border town of Laredo. I grew up going to newspaper conventions in Laredo. Ev...

In just six months after consolidating the city’s fire and EMS services, response times have dropped dramatically. Last week’s front-page story about ...