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FISD Education Foundation gives over $65k
Education, Gillespie Life
FISD Education Foundation gives over $65k
August 20, 2025
The Fredericksburg Independent School District Education Foundation announced distribution of $67,376 of grants on Friday, Aug. 15. Teachers across the district applied for grants for specific projects throughout the spring, before applications were reviewed by campus principals and then the foundat...
Education, Gillespie Life
Young Masters now accepting applicants
August 20, 2025
Applications for the 2026 class of Young Masters, a joint initiative by the Texas Commission on the Arts and Texas Cultural Trusts, that provides Texas student artists in grades 8-11 with financial help to pursue advanced study in visual and literary arts, music, theater, dance, folk and media arts,...
Quiche Lorraine: Wartime favorite finds new life
Gillespie Life, Taste
Quiche Lorraine: Wartime favorite finds new life
Culinary Adventure Mark Wieser 
August 20, 2025
We never had quiche in the 1950s. Its existence had never appeared in my dad’s weekly Saturday Evening Post or Collier’s, but a recipe might have appeared in my mom’s monthly copies of Better Homes and Gardens or Ladies’ Home Journal. Although she clipped recipes from the San Antonio Light, I found ...
Sweeney, Hauser shine in modern Western ‘Americana’
Gillespie Life, Movies
Sweeney, Hauser shine in modern Western ‘Americana’
BY MATT WARD 
August 20, 2025
Cinematic Considerations The modern-day anthology “Americana,” which evokes both the Coen brothers and Quentin Tarantino, should have had fervent box ...
Gayne shares the Legend of the Clearwater Beach ‘Monster’
Gillespie Life, Outdoors
Gayne shares the Legend of the Clearwater Beach ‘Monster’
by Gayne C. Young 
August 20, 2025
Outdoors On Edge Very strange things were afoot in Clearwater Beach, Florida in the late 1940s. The discovery made along the small coastal town just a...
Fifteen girls vying for court crowns
Community, Gillespie Life
Fifteen girls vying for court crowns
August 20, 2025
In order to showcase the talents and personalities of contestants for this year’s Gillespie County Fair Court, the contest committee has made changes ...
Zahara ‘thriving’ after tail amputation
Gillespie Life
Zahara ‘thriving’ after tail amputation
August 13, 2025
Zahara, a two-year-old Russian Blue mix, is available for adoption now at the Hill Country SPCA, 2981 Texas 16 South. Animal care specialists made not...
Buster in need of home
Gillespie Life
Buster in need of home
August 13, 2025
Buster, a one-year-old Border Collie mix, has been awaiting adoption at the City of Fredericksburg Animal Shelter for the past three months. “He gets ...
Phil on aphorisms like ‘Peaches, peaches, hole in your breeches’
Gillespie Life
Phil on aphorisms like ‘Peaches, peaches, hole in your breeches’
Phil Houseal 
August 13, 2025
An ominous adage delivered in a pleasing rhyme like “My nose itches. I smell peaches. Someone’s coming with a hole in his britches.” could portend doo...
Gillespie Life
Science Mill hosts ‘Sips & STEM’ workshop
August 13, 2025
The Science Mill will host “Sips & STEM: Shibori Dyeing Workshop” for adults from 4:306 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 16, at the museum in Johnson City. The new...
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