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The City of Fredericksburg's Oktoberfest has been nominated in the USA Today 10Best Readers' Choice travel awards for Best Oktoberfest in the country. Oktoberfest originally began in 1810 with a huge party celebrating the marriage of Prince Ludwig of Bavaria to Princess Therese. The German festival is now recreated in many cities all across the United States. USA Today has selected 20 Oktoberfest events that have been nominated for their […]

The Kerrville Parks and Recreation Department will be hosting the fourth annual "Kerrville River Roadster Show" on Saturday, August 26, at 4 p.m. The free event will take place at the Kerrville Sports Complex, 117 Sweeper Lane, and will showcase vehicles of all sizes, types, colors and speeds. Attendees can purchase food and drinks on site and enjoy free music provided by "The Flashbacks" beginning at 4:30 p.m. Anyone interested […]

The Kerr Regional History Center will be hosting The League of Women Voters - Hill Country Texas on Saturday, August 12, at 2 p.m., for an information session led by Heather Farmer. The Presentation is a part of the touring exhibit, "Citizens at Last: The Woman Suffrage Movement in Texas," an exhibition curated by the Woman's Collection of Texas Woman's University Library and produced by Humanities Texas. Saturday's presentation will […]

Kerr County Environmental Health has announced that it will close temporarily from August 14-18 as its offices are relocated from the courthouse annex basement to a new location. County officials confirm that the new location will be Suite 100 of the county-owned building at 550 Earl Garret Street ,in Kerrville, starting on Monday, August 21. The Kerr County Environmental Health On-Site Sewage Facilities department is responsible for ensuring that all […]

Summer may be officially coming to a close, but area kids have one last opportunity to have some fun by taking part in the Kerrville "Kids Triathlon" and "Wet N Wag" on Saturday, August 12. The 27th annual "Kids Triathlon" will take place in Singing Winds Park on Saturday, August 12, beginning at 9 a.m., and all children ages pre-K to 18 are invited to participate. Pre-registration will continue through […]

On Monday, the Gillespie County Communications Center reported a "large, grass fire" which has burned roughly 45 acres near Fredericksburg. The Texas A&M Forest Service said the fire, named the Orchard Fire, has caused several street closures. Ranch Road 1631 is closed near Klaerner Road and the Palo Alto Creek. RR 1631 is closed about three miles outside of Fredericksburg. As of Monday afternoon, multiple fire departments were on the […]

The City of Kerrville has announced that effective August 1 at 12:01 a.m., Kerrville will move from Stage 1 to Stage 2 water conservation measures. The watering schedule for Stage 2 allows for landscape and lawn watering with hose-end sprinklers or automatic irrigation systems from 6-9 a.m. and 8-10 on Tuesday and Saturday for street addresses whose last digits end in an odd number, and Wednesday and Sunday for street […]

The Butt-Holdsworth Memorial Library will be hosting two family movie afternoons in August to conclude its summer family-friendly events. On Tuesday, August 1 at 2 p.m., kids can partake on a thrilling adventure to find pirate treasures and save their family home. On Tuesday, August 8 at 2 p.m., families can enjoy an epic journey with Nicholas Cage as he searches for a massive lost Freemason treasure hidden on the […]

The Kerrville Parks and Recreation Department is gearing up for the end of summer by hosting the "End of Summer Shindig" celebration on Saturday, August 5, at the Kerrville-Schreiner Park Riverfront from 3-6 p.m. The event includes free paddleboard and kayak rentals, yard games, and food trucks. The event is free and open to the public. Additionally, the Kerrville-Schreiner Park is waiving entry fees to the park for the entire […]