Live oaks have a rough life in the Texas Hill Country. Not only do they have to survive drought, tornadoes, ice storms and oak wilt, this year some areas of Gillespie County are experiencing a caterpillar plague. This caterpillar plague consists of two species, the spring cankerworm and the oak leaf...

Jeep Collins, seated, signed hundreds of copies of his new book “ENID,” published by Dovetail, on Sunday at a public event on the Pioneer Museum grounds. The book, profiled in last week’s Standard-Radio Post, tells the story of Collins’ mother, Enid Collins, whose handbags were a fashion hit in the ...

I wish I could erase the terms “deer proof” or “deer resistant” from the English language. It is just more complicated than those terms indicate. Animals have things they really like to eat, things they will eat if available, things they only eat when desperate, and then some things they almost neve...

Early voting in the May 1 city and school board elections began Monday and continues through Tuesday, April 27. On the first day of early voting, 206 ...

The City of Fredericksburg’s annual financial report for Fiscal Year 2020 is now available for viewing. This report is for the period between Oct. 1, ...

Each year, thousands of 4-H volunteers donate their time and energy to make their communities a better place to live. Those volunteers will be among t...