Willow City News

The great, big state of Texas has a great, big heart. It's known as the Texas Hill Country.

Word around the Hill Country is this place does fried as well as they do frosty.

Two buxom gals are dancing atop a cedar picnic table. The mist from a giant cooling system washes over them.

“These higher difficulties of control pose an increased threat to the local fire fighting resources and the property on which they burn”

LA NINA CONDITIONS in the Eastern Pacific Ocean are being blamed for the dry weather that, together with recent freezing winter temperatures, has cured lush, waist-high summertime vegetation and produced an ... via Fredericksburg Standard Online

“I don't know if we can legally put an elected official on a leave of absence”

ALTHOUGH there were no reported injuries to humans or losses of livestock to property owners from Saturday's Willow City fire, at least two residences like this one belonging to Ward Smith were destroyed as ... via Fredericksburg Standard Online

“Everyone needs to know just how absolutely dangerous it is out there”

DENSE SMOKE hangs above a fire-blackened countryside Saturday afternoon near Willow City after a wind-driven wildfire swept across approximately 2,000 acres of rural land. via Fredericksburg Standard Online

“We just want everyone to be extremely careful.”

STANDING in waist-high grass on a Fredericksburg ranch, Gillespie County Fire Marshall Steve Olfers, left, joins landowner/real estate business owner Greg Oehler, center, and Hunter Monahan of Texas Ranch ... via Fredericksburg Standard Online