Youth from Gillespie County FFA and 4-H clubs will have 764 animal projects and 11 ag mechanical projects at this year’s Gillespie County Youth Livestock Show/Auction, which runs Wednesday through Saturday (Jan. 1-4). The 344 exhibitors will show livestock at the Gillespie County Fair Grounds Show B...

The Fredericksburg Chorale and Fredericksburg United Methodist Church Chancel Choir, directed by Don Doss, performed Handel’s “Messiah” for a full house at the Fredericksburg United Methodist Church on Tuesday, Dec. 17. — Standard-Radio Post/Michaela Rush Gwen Fullbrook, Idell Looney and Martha Fost...

Dennis Smith, park superintendent at the Lyndon B. Johnson State Park and Historic Site, celebrates the annual lighting of the Christmas tree with children who attended on Sunday, Dec. 15. The tree lighting was begun by President Johnson and Lady Bird Johnson on Dec. 23, 1970. Santa Claus made an en...

Emergency services will need to rise with population Fredericksburg’s growing pains, and how to manage them, were top of mind this week during the joi...

Salazar succeeds Hagee as leader after 36 years with U.S. Army The Admiral Nimitz Foundation (ANF) introduced its new CEO/ President, Brigadier Genera...

As in Fredericksburg itself, development took center stage at Tuesdays City Council meeting as members had to decide on three voluntary annexations an...