Leaves continue falling around town this week, so the City of Fredericksburg is still making its rounds with its vacuum truck, collecting them. The city offers this service, free of charge, twice a year, to all residential garbage customers to encourage city beautification. During this program, resi...

Hill Top Cafe will close out the year with Winterfest 2025, a weeklong celebration of live music running Friday through Wednesday, Dec. 26-31. Held annually in the days between Christmas and New Year’s, Winterfest brings nightly performances to the historic Hill Top Café stage, continuing a longstan...

Gillespie County residents cite urgency as construction looms Concerned citizens of Gillespie County held an information meeting on Wednesday, Dec. 17 with senior representatives of federal, state, county and city elected officials to update them on the environmental concerns of a planned 1,100-acre...

Celebrate the beginning of a new year and the start of America’s semiquincentennial (America 250) with a First Day Hike at a Texas State Park. This an...

Dec. 13-20, 2025 Fredericksburg • Monday, Dec. 15 – 8:22 a.m., Texas 16 South, fire/ CO alarm. • Monday, Dec. 15 – 5:37 p.m., U.S. 290 West, general i...

The Gillespie County Sheriff’s Office responded to 357 calls for service for the week of Dec. 15-21. They made 192 traffic stops and issued 141 warnin...