Heritage advances to TAPPS Final Four - Fredericksburg Standard

Wyatt Craven (15) of Fredericksburg Heritage goes up for the basketball with cousin Bridger Hardin (5) in the background ready to assist. — Submitted photo

Sports

February 26, 2025

Heritage advances to TAPPS Final Four

The Heritage Eagles varsity boys’ basketball season improved to 28-1 after defeating Houston Robert M. Beren Academy, 82-40, last Tuesday night at the Neel Center at Heritage.

Gillespie Life, Taste

Pot roast is a dinner table staple

Culinary Adventure Mark Wieser

February 26, 2025

We had pot roast often. Its flavor was great, but I do remember the meat being stringy. We had it on wash days because it allowed my mom time for doin...

Gillespie Life, Movies

‘Paddington’ franchise returns with new direction, locale

BY MATT WARD

February 26, 2025

Cinematic Considerations Sometimes a film can be like a warm hug for audiences and the “Paddington” films, based on the classic Michael Bond stories, ...

Gillespie Life, Outdoors

Vaya con Dios, James Carlos Blake

by Gayne C. Young

February 26, 2025

Outdoors On Edge James Carlos Blake wrote about the savagery of the human experience. He wrote about outlaws, murderers, bootleggers, smugglers, gun r...

Community, Gillespie Life

An eye for detail

By Michaela Rush Standard-Radio Post reporter

February 26, 2025

After a scheduling change his freshman year, Fredericksburg High School junior Hewston Lochte felt nervous as he was signed up for a photojournalism e...

Commentary

House unveils its voucher bill version

TEXAS PRESS ASSOCIATION STATE CAPITAL HIGHLIGHTS By Gary Borders

February 26, 2025

Texas House members filed a bevy of education bills last week, including a proposed $8 billion investment in public education and a voucher bill that ...

Commentary

Texas schools need healthy competition

By David Anderson

February 26, 2025

Guest column There has been a lake full of ink used to wr it e/c ompla in about the Texas school system in this paper, from funding to vouchers. The m...

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