Harper stays steady in latest TEA scores With the recent release of 2024 and 2025’s Texas Education Agency A-F accountability ratings, Fredericksburg Independent School District’s rating improved from 2023’s C score to a B in 2024 and 2025, while Harper ISD maintained its B rating. Accountability ra...

Fireworks illuminated the Texas A&M Forest Service’s single engine airtanker at Gillespie County Airport on Saturday night. The City of Fredericksburg’s Fourth of July fireworks display was postponed to Labor Day weekend, when rain hit Gillespie County on July 4. – Photo by Erin Carter Judy, Lillian...

Edward Rode dumped battered fish into Ryan Goy’s deep fryer as Dayle Heiner, checked on the doneness of his catch. The Doss Volunteer Fire Department’s 40th annual fish fry utilized 22 deep fryers to feed an estimated 2,000 people on Saturday. See more photos on D1. – Standard-Radio Post/Christine G...

Yrzee Zoomin Wagon (3) ridden by Jose R. Herbert, trailed Pura Calidad (2), ridden by Victor Manuel Urieta, Jr., as the leaders approached the finish ...

John Klaerner, the winner of the centerfire competition, gets hoisted in the air by his Grapetown Shooting Club teammates. Klaerner edged out Dane Moe...

Blaine Hahn was announced as Fredericksburg Independent School District’s newest di re c t or of transp ortation on Monday, Aug. 4. A Gillespie County...