Editor’s note: The inaugural Fredericksburg Book Festival will host 11 well known and accomplished adult and children’s authors – all from Texas – on Saturday, Jan. 18, 2025, and the Fredericksburg Standard-Radio Post will introduce each one in the coming months. The day of the event will be filled ...

Ihave never eaten shoofly pie — molasses pie, yes. In fact, the shoofly pie recipe is identical to the molasses pie recipe submitted to the first Fredericksburg PTA Cookbook (1917), by Elizabeth Moursund, wife of our former District Judge, Alfred Moursund. Molasses may have been a stranger to Meuseb...

Gillespie County wineries won top honors at the inaugural Vine 2 Wine™ International Wine Competition on Oct. 19-21 at the Fort Worth Stock Show & Rodeo (FWSSR). Hilmy Cellars, Becker Vineyards, McPherson Cellars and Texas Wine Collective were recognized in premium and best of Texas awards, while mu...

Outdoors On Edge Walter Dalrymple Maitland Bell, better known as Karamojo Bell and world-renowned for being the most successful ivory hunter of all ti...

The tan shipping container next to the playground at Fredericksburg Primary School is the product of a shared dream between a grandmother and grandson...

Lucy, a long-haired calico, and her brother Casey, a silver tabby, are the perfect pair. The two kittens are just 6 weeks old, but already have big pe...