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CHRISTMAS CONCERT
Gillespie Life
CHRISTMAS CONCERT
December 17, 2025
Top, The Fredericksburg High School Band Christmas Concert on Monday, Dec. 8 featured bucket percussionists Beau Brooks, Anthony Word, Sebastian Nery, Sophie Gonzalez and Karley Luciano keeping the beat. – Photo by Margie Hohmann Kyah Walker sang “All I Want for Christmas is You” at the the FHS band...
Friends of the Nature Center invites families to Story Walk at trail
Gillespie Life
Friends of the Nature Center invites families to Story Walk at trail
December 17, 2025
Friends of Fredericksburg Nature Center (FFNC) is offering a Story Walk along the Handicap Access Nature Trail at Lady Bird Johnson Municipal Park. Fifteen boards along the trail tell the story of “Wind Watchers.” Families can read the storybook while walking outside in nature. The featured book, “W...
What’s in a name? Humanizing the inanimate object
Community, Gillespie Life
What’s in a name? Humanizing the inanimate object
What’s in a name?
Phil Houseal 
December 17, 2025
HOUSE Humanizing the inanimate object Do you name your bread machine? I have just been made aware that there is a whole sub-section of humanity that names inanimate objects in their lives. It is not an affliction; it is a life hack. In a previous column, I posited how we dehumanize our opponents in ...
Adult education classes conclude for fall semester
Education, Gillespie Life
Adult education classes conclude for fall semester
December 3, 2025
The Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI) will conclude its fall 2025 semester with two classes this week, both held at Fredericksburg United Metho...
The first and last raccoon in the White House
Gillespie Life
The first and last raccoon in the White House
OUTDOORS ON EDGE By Gayne C. Young 
November 26, 2025
Raccoon was once considered for the main course for Thanksgiving Dinner at the White House. The First Lady intervened and made the trash panda a pet i...
Winter warmth means Chicken & Ham pot pie
Gillespie Life
Winter warmth means Chicken & Ham pot pie
By Mark Wieser 
November 26, 2025
In 1883, an anonymous recipe for Chicken and Ham Pie turned up in the First Presbyterian Church Cookbook in Houston. Deanna suggested I look into it, ...
Board honors educator in ‘mission moment’
Gillespie Life
Board honors educator in ‘mission moment’
By Michaela Rush Standard-Radio Post reporter 
November 26, 2025
Fredericksburg Elementary School math teacher Sarah Howard was surprised by student Carla Gallegos, a fifth grader at FES, with the Mission Moment hon...
ZONTA DONATION
Gillespie Life
ZONTA DONATION
November 26, 2025
The Beta Zeta Chapter of the Delta Kappa Gamma Society International presented a check for $885.41 to the Fredericksburg Zonta Club for the Dolly Part...
‘Wicked: For Good’ loses its magic, wonder
Gillespie Life
‘Wicked: For Good’ loses its magic, wonder
BY MATT WARD 
November 26, 2025
Cinematic Considerations Whatever good will director Jon M. Chu built with his Oscar-nominated 2024 musical “Wicked” is destroyed by his poor decision...
Greatness shows itself anywhere like greasy posts
Community, Gillespie Life
Greatness shows itself anywhere like greasy posts
Phil Houseal 
November 26, 2025
HOUSE One of our favorite family excursions while raising our combined DNA was attending the Texas Folklife Festival. Held every summer on the grounds...
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