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The2026GillespieCountyYouthLivestock Show Auction raised $1,515,266.84 at time of publication.
The four-day event saw exhibitors from various Gillespie...
January 14, 2026
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The Fredericksburg Book Festival is returning for its second year on Saturday, Jan. 17, 2026, from 9 a.m.-5 p.m.
“With such great attenda...
January 14, 2026
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Adam Guzman, age 3, casts a line at Saturday’s Kid Fish event, hosted by the City of Fredericksburg’s Parks Department. He got a little help fro...
January 14, 2026
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GATHERING
January 14, 2026
The annual community MLK Jr. Service, hosted by the Gillespie County Ministerial Association, is scheduled for for 12 p.m. Monday, Jan. 19 at the Chri...
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January 14, 2026
Fredericksburg Music Club will host Grammy-nominees The Grammy-nominated Texas Guitar Quartet (TxGQ) will perform Sunday, Jan. 18, in a postholiday pr...
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January 14, 2026
Publishing company’s ‘utility player’ Geistweidt retires Fredericksburg lost an important steward of the town’s history on Friday when Sherrie Geistwe...
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January 14, 2026
Methodist Hospital – Hill Country welcomed Kerrville native Evie Garrett, whose mission of kindness has brought comfort to pediatric patients across t...
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January 14, 2026
‘TEXAS Before the Lone Star’ will be distributed to schools Texas’s rich and diverse history began long before the iconic Battle of the Alamo. While t...
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January 14, 2026
The Kerrville Genealogical Society will hold a general meeting on Wednesday, January 21 at 2 p.m. in the auditorium of the Guadalupe River Basin Natur...
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January 14, 2026
A group of Texas archeologists uncovered the longlost mission of Mission Nuestra Señora del Espíritu Santo in Jackson County. The Texas Tech Universit...
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January 14, 2026
Javi Andrade — Texas House District 19 candidate for the Democratic Party’s nomination in the March 4 primary election — will be the guest speaker for...
Sports
January 14, 2026
The Harper Ladyhorns outlasted District 29-2A rival Johnson City, 37-32, last Friday at Johnson City High School. “I thought the girls played hard and...
Sports
January 14, 2026
Rilyn Grona had 16 points and 10 pass deflections while Micaella Petty scored 16 points to lead Texas Girls Coaches Association (TGCA) Class 4A No. 11...
Sports
January 14, 2026
The Fredericksburg High School varsity boys’ basketball team came up short handed on the bench and the scoreboard in their non-district road contest a...
Sports
Navy All-American Bowl reminds leaders of coaching brotherhood
January 14, 2026
Harper High School Athletic Director and Head Football Coach Chad Zenner coached in front of four million viewers on NBC Sports and Peacock last Satur...
Sports
January 14, 2026
The Fredericksburg High School varsity girls soccer team won three out of its four matches at the Hill Country Winter Classic Soccer Tournament last T...
Sports
July to December: From horse racing to cross country champs
January 7, 2026
Last week, we recapped the first six months of 2025 and the sports stories that made headlines the first part of the year. The second half of the year...
Sports
December 31, 2025
Harper High School Varsity Football Head Coach Chad Zenner has been selected as one of 16 high school coaches nationwide to coach in the upcoming Navy...
Gillespie Life
January 14, 2026
We had never eaten shrimp before the mid-1950s. Then an older sister (Imogene) married and moved near Galveston. On one visit she fried shrimp, though...
Gillespie Life
January 14, 2026
Cinematic Considerations What drives a person to step onstage and tell jokes for the very first time becomes a key plot device in co-writer/director B...
Gillespie Life
COLLEGE BRIEFS
January 14, 2026
South Plains College Ethan Garrett of Harper, was named to the South Plains College Fall 2025 president’s list. Garrett was among more than 400 studen...
Business
Local juice shop was built on faith, family, organic integrity
January 14, 2026
When Michael and Monica Falconer set out to open a juice bar in Fredericksburg, they received two pieces of advice from former owners of local smoothi...
Business
January 14, 2026
It’s Our Business Often, I go into my archives to find articles or books that I haven’t looked at in a while as a refresher. In the archive is a colle...
Business
Family-owned restaurant group to launch dinner service in February, eyes upscale concept
January 7, 2026
After nearly five years on Main Street, Nury’s Hospitality Group has closed one location but is moving forward with plans to expand its dinner offerin...
