The ninth biennial quilt show for the Vereins Quilt Guild of Fredericksburg will take place on Friday and Saturday, Sept. 2-3. The show, titled “Take My Breath Away”, will take place from 9 a.m.-6 p.m. on Friday and 9 a.m.-4 p.m. on Saturday. The show will take place at the Fredericksburg United Met...

County commissioners are proposing a nearly two-cent hike in Gillespie’s property tax rate as they prepare the county’s 2016-2017 budget. Being proposed is a .0195-cent increase from the current ad valorem property tax rate of $0.4147 per $100 valuation to $0.4342 per $100 valuation. Two public hear...

A request for open board meetings, a question about cyber terrorism and more highlighted the 68th Annual Central Texas Electric Cooperative (CTEC) annual membership meeting last week. Held Tuesday, Aug. 16 in the Fredericksburg High School Auditorium, the meeting drew more than 200 CTEC member-owner...

Member-owners of Central Texas Electric Cooperative (CTEC) were given an update on the organization’s past year — financially and operationally — at t...

Gillespie County has received an above average amount of rain in the past week, which has brought greener grass and much cooler temperatures. A year a...

Saturday, Aug. 27, will mark the 108th anniversary of President Lyndon B. Johnson’s birth and the Stonewall parks bearing his name are inviting the pu...