The 2025 Meat Goat and Lamb futurities were held Saturday, Aug. 9 at the Gillespie County Fair Grounds Show Barn. Meat goat futurity committee members included Brad Roeder, chairman; Roy Sanders, co-chair; Tim Louton, Christy Louton, Blaine Hahn, Patrick Padgett and Lori Titsworth. Lamb futurity com...

Hill Country Weather with Dr Doppler The weather pattern across the Hill Country favors periodic rain chances Wednesday through Friday. The culprit will be a weak cold front that washes out across Texas during the remainder of the week. Several disturbances will also bring us showers and thunderstor...

The Gillespie County Commissioners Court held a special meeting to hire Hazard Dynamics, an on-call engineering firm, and approve fire marshal inspection fees and annual budget items. The court unamimously approved hiring Erik Archibald of Hazard Dynamics, an engineering consulting firm specializing...

Pests creep closer The New World Screwworms have been a hot topic in the agriculture world. While the pest is still in Mexico, it is making its way to...

Yrzee Zoomin Wagon (3) ridden by Jose R. Herbert, trailed Pura Calidad (2), ridden by Victor Manuel Urieta, Jr., as the leaders approached the finish ...

City of Fredericksburg and Gillespie County officials brought to light an inequitable distribution of funding resources related to fire and EMS, anima...