Gayle Schoessnow, who is on the FISD School Board, submitted this letter written by her husband’s great grandfather B. L. Enderle in 1962 noting its relevance today. According to Schoessnow, Enderle first moved to Fredericksburg in 1912 and was the County Surveyor from 19121975. An engineer by trade...

Save our Bacon I am proud to operate Hat & Heart Farm, a sixth-generation family farm rooted in Gillespie County since the earliest days of Fredericksburg. I learned to drive a tractor before I could reach the pedals and started selling at farmers markets as a teenager. Today, we steward 93 acres, r...

Texas will need to invest $174 billion over the next 50 years to keep up with water demand, according to a draft 2027 state water plan approved last week, the Austin American- Statesman reported. That is more than twice the projected cost in the previous state water plan published in 2022. The draft...

It’s time for me to say Auf Wiedersehen — and Prost!, my favorite German word — to Fredericksburg and Gillespie County. It’s been an honor to publish ...

Fredericksburg and Gillespie County have benefitted from slow-butsteady growth. We are mostly still anchored by clean industries like agriculture and ...

Conservative humorist Cullen Hightower once quipped: “there’s always somebody who is paid too much and taxed too little. And it’s always somebody else...