Fredericksburg High School’s Agricultural Science Department will offer a new food processing class in the spring semester. The department will coordinate this with both the Future Farmers of America and Junior FFA. FFA advisor Patrick Padgett, along with ag science teachers Caleb Elrod and Joel Bus...

Preliminary totals indicate that August averaged about 5.69 inches of rain statewide, which ties with 1914 for the wettest August on record, according to figures from the State Climatologist office at Texas A&M University. John Nielsen-Gammon, professor of atmospheric sciences at Texas A&M who also ...

Citizens are invited to two upcoming hearings to learn more about and offer their input on a proposed two-cent hike in Gillespie County’s property tax rate. The first public hearing will be at 5:15 p.m. tomorrow, Sept. 1, in the upstairs district courtroom at the Gillespie County Courthouse, 101 Wes...

First Friday Art Walk Fredericksburg will be celebrated on Friday, Sept. 2, with demonstrations, art talks, receptions, visits with artists and more. ...

Harper will be celebrating its 52nd Frontier Days on Friday and Saturday, Sept. 2-3, and will offer a weekend full of family events, including a 5 p.m...