FEMA aid to storm, flood survivors passes $12M in Austin region
So far, $12.3 million in individual assistance has been allocated from FEMA to people impacted by floods, storms and tornadoes in the Austin metro region. More than $7.6 million of that has been...
View ArticleNonprofit offers course on mediating parent, child disputes
The San Marcos-based Central Texas Dispute Resolution Center is offering a 30-hour series of classes for professional mediators on conflicts between parents and their children Sept. 9-18.
View ArticleERCOT asks residents to conserve energy during peak hours today
The Electric Reliability Council of Texas, grid operator for most of Texas, has announced an Energy Emergency Alert and is asking electric consumers to limit or reduce electric use where possible...
View ArticleMadison named interim Pflugerville economic development director
Former Greater San Marcos Partnership president Amy Madison has been named interim executive director of the Pflugerville Community Development Corp., the economic development agent for the prosperous...
View ArticleSix die in wrecks during bloody week on Hays, Caldwell highways
A man died Friday morning when his motorcycle was struck by a passenger car on southbound Interstate 35 in Kyle. A day earlier, five people including a child were killed in a sports-utility vehicle...
View ArticleSan Marcos council moves to clip Airport Commission’s wings
Facing calls from within to either disband or restructure the San Marcos Airport Commission, city council members took the first step Tuesday toward stripping the appointed body of most of its...
View ArticleCaldwell County ‘turkey shoot’ benefits Luling Kiwanis scholarships
The Kiwanis Club of Luling is hosting a Turkey Shoot competition beginning at 10 a.m. Saturday, Aug. 22 at Kiwanis Ranch, 260 Rudolph Road between Luling and Stairtown in Caldwell County.
View ArticleHays County ‘actively reviewing’ FEMA’s sweeping expansion of floodplain maps
Newly redrawn floodplain maps for the Blanco River basin in Hays County substantially expand the number of properties on which federal and state agencies say it is unwise to rebuild homes and...
View ArticleLast day to register for FEMA assistance is Aug. 27
The deadline is Thursday, Aug. 27 — tomorrow — for individuals to register for assistance from the Federal Emergency Management Agency for the string of floods, storms and tornadoes that afflicted the...
View ArticleEight Hays, Caldwell companies win 2015 Governor’s Small Business Awards
Hays and Caldwell county recipients of the 2015 Governor’s Small Business Awards were announced Wednesday as part of the Governor’s Small Business Forum, hosted in San Marcos by the Greater San Marcos...
View ArticleFour-county coalition officially launches Blanco River Regional Recovery Team
Four counties – Blanco, Caldwell, Guadalupe and Hays – have joined forces to coordinate the long-term recovery efforts from the Memorial Weekend flood and storms in conjunction with their affected...
View ArticleFuture of Cape’s Dam, Thompson’s Islands on San Marcos council agenda
Wading into a battle that has divided the San Marcos River’s most passionate defenders, the San Marcos City Council is scheduled to begin deliberation tonight on whether to dismantle Cape’s Dam.
View ArticleState to extend no-interest loans to veterans rebuilding from Blanco flood
Military veterans whose homes were damaged by the Memorial Day weekend flood and other natural disasters this summer will be eligible to apply for no-interest home improvement loans under a relief...
View ArticleRedrawing battle lines, Buda signs water deal with Kyle, San Marcos
Mere months away from projected water shortages, the Buda City Council approved an agreement this week to buy 1,120 acre-feet a year — one million gallons a day — of surplus water from the cities of...
View ArticleNew law won’t necessarily stop Electro Purification drilling
A bill that passed late in the legislative session gave some residents and officials hope that they can kill a controversial water-pumping project in western Hays County. But there's no guarantee that...
View ArticleBlanco River Regional Recovery Team to begin assessing flood survivors’ unmet...
World Renew, a Christian nonprofit organization that has assisted disaster response and rehabilitation efforts around the world, will open field offices in Hays and Blanco counties to assess flood...
View ArticleLetter: Destroying Cape’s Dam = Destroying critical habitat
MOLLY CUMMINGS, an University of Texas biology professor, writes that the San Marcos City Council should not rely on a Texas State University biology professor’s findings that removing historic Cape’s...
View ArticleCommentary: Don’t let professor’s sloppy work obscure the facts about Cape’s...
THOMAS HARDY, the Meadow Center’s chief science officer, says there is ‘no credible scientific evidence’ that removing Cape’s Dam will harm wildlife in the San Marcos River as a University of Texas...
View ArticleLetter: No one is ‘omniscient’ about best option for Cape’s Dam
In a rebuttal to commentary we published last week, University of Texas biology professor MOLLY CUMMINGS writes that the San Marcos City Council should “take advantage of the wealth of local scientists...
View ArticleLetter: Removing Cape’s Dam ‘a risky gamble’
ALFRED L. McALISTER, a UT School of Public Health professor, writes that ‘prompt action is needed to prevent injury in the highly dangerous water around the breaches in Capes Dam’
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