The Fredericksburg High School Band qualified for the UIL 4A State Marching Band Contest for the second year in a row. “The Pride of the Texas Hill Country” ranked No. 1 in two of three music categories and No. 1 in both visual categories at the UIL 4A Area D Marching Contest on Saturday, Oct. 25 at...

Fredericksburg Elementary School fourth-grade teacher Ja’Nay Settles Wise received a grant from the Fredericksburg Independent School District Education Foundation to go toward a “Hatching and caring for chickens in the classroom” for her students. “This program will give our students a hands-on way...

Tex-Mex was still Texas’ bestkept secret at the beginning of the 1960s. It remained largely unknown outside San Antonio and South Texas, and even those of us who grew up not far away didn’t realize what we were missing. My first real exposure to it came in Seguin, where I fell in love with salsa and...

Entries continue to be accepted for Fredericksburg’s annual Light the Night Christmas Parade, presented by H-E-B, set for Friday, Dec. 5. Entry is fre...

The annual donation campaign of the Fredericksburg ISD Education Foundation is under way and gives donors an opportunity to support teachers across al...

We had three wood-burning stoves to heat our home in the ’50s. My mom built a fire in the kitchen stove before milking three cows and making breakfast...