Mayer named winner of GCHS essay contest Quinci Mayer has been n amed the winner of the 2024 Flora Wertheim Scholarship for her winning essay, “The Roots of ‘Welcome’ (die Wurzeln des “Willkommens”): How Fredericksburg’s Welcoming Spirit Made the Town Prosper.” Mayer will attend Texas A&M University...

Crosswind Aviation is offering a summer aviation camp, which provides students ages 15-18 years old a chance to explore becoming a pilot for recreation or as a pathway to a career in aviation. Camp Ceiling and Visibility Unrestricted (CAVU) students receive seven hours of flight time and flight trai...

A Fredericksburg High School cadet was awarded numerous medals at the Hill Country Chapter of the Military Order of the World Wars (MOWW) monthly meeting on Tuesday, May 14. Cadet Ilyann Javier, of FHS, was selected to be the NJROTC unit’s Senior Enlisted Cadet for the 202425 school year, according ...

Elf is a one-year-old, 27-pound good boy with impeccable manners and friendly demeanor, according to Kaityln Blumrich of the Hill Country SPCA. “This ...

FULL HOUSE Can you act your way to happiness? Or to any mood? Is all the world a stage, as Bill Shakespeare posited, and we are just playing make beli...

Hospitality Hostess seeking tech savvy replacement The more social and connected people have become in the digital age has, ironically, made it harder...