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Hudson, Jackson chase ordinary dreams
Gillespie Life
Hudson, Jackson chase ordinary dreams
BY MATT WARD 
December 31, 2025
Cinematic Considerations How music impacts people’s lives has frequently been the foundation of movies, both in traditional Broadway adaptations and in the more recent songbook musical biopic trend. Best known for his infectious sing-along anthem “Sweet Caroline,” Neil Diamond has long been an inspi...
Fun and drug use on the Amazon
Gillespie Life
Fun and drug use on the Amazon
OUTDOORS ON EDGE By Gayne C. Young 
December 31, 2025
Iworked for a time for an outfitter in Amazônia. The company hosted fishing expeditions on a yacht that cruised up and down the Amazon River. Clients – mostly from Texas – would venture down to Brazil, check into a stateroom on the yacht, then fish from smaller boats that ventured deep into the wate...
Farewell song of Fritze family
Community, Gillespie Life
Farewell song of Fritze family
Local learns he’s living his ancestors’ dream
By Bruce Campbell Special to the Standard 
December 31, 2025
In 1845, my ancestors, the Fritzes of Dillenburg, Germany, made the decision to emigrate to the new Republic of Texas. My third great-grandparents, Georg Johann Fritze and Katarina Becker Fritze, probably learned about the opportunity in Texas from Otfried Hans Freiherr von Meusebach, who became Joh...
My sitcom: Unscripted life worth watching
Community, Gillespie Life
My sitcom: Unscripted life worth watching
My sitcom:
Phil Houseal 
December 31, 2025
HOUSE Unscripted life worth watching What if your life were a sitcom? SCENE: Breakfast table, cluttered with opened cereal boxes, butter dish, crumbs ...
Tamales are a big part of Christmas
Gillespie Life
Tamales are a big part of Christmas
Stories from the F&W Farmstead Mark Wieser & Case Fischer 
December 24, 2025
One Saturday morning in the late 1950s, I walked into my best friend’s house and found his parents busy in the kitchen making tamales. It was clearly ...
Grace Center drive continues through January 5
Gillespie Life
Grace Center drive continues through January 5
December 24, 2025
Donors have until Monday, Jan. 5, to contribute to a holiday drive benefiting The Grace Center of Fredericksburg by providing daily living essentials,...
Gillespie Life
Historical society annual meeting ahead January 24
December 24, 2025
The annual membership meeting of the Gillespie County Historical Society and Pioneer Museum will be held Saturday, Jan. 24, in the Gillespie County Hi...
Don’t be a Grinch for Christmas
Gillespie Life
Don’t be a Grinch for Christmas
OUTDOORS ON EDGE By Gayne C. Young 
December 24, 2025
My parents are dead, my kids are adults and my wife says we should save our money for upcoming vacations. In short, this means I’m looking at a pretty...
Cameron trades substance for spectacle with ‘Avatar: Fire and Ash’
Gillespie Life
Cameron trades substance for spectacle with ‘Avatar: Fire and Ash’
BY MATT WARD 
December 24, 2025
Cinematic Considerations Spectacle in cinema can be thrilling, innovative and exhilarating, especially when blown up on the biggest screens possible. ...
Theater class wins ensemble award at UIL One-Act play competition
Gillespie Life
Theater class wins ensemble award at UIL One-Act play competition
December 24, 2025
Fredericksburg Middle School placed second overall in the District 28 4A University Interscholastic League One-Act Play competition and received three...
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