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BULLETIN PHOTO/Bill Pack Families and students in the Bandera Independent School District line up in their cars on a bus loop outside of Bandera High School on March 30 to pick up a Chromebook laptop computer that the district has loaned to families who need them so students can complete online class assignments they have been given during the extended leave from school caused by the coronavirus. The district had allocated 196 Chromebooks as it planned for a third distribution effort on Monday, April 6.
Read moreTen area students were recently selected as recipients of the Bandera Electric Cooperative Scholarships, an award of $2,500 for the 2020-2021 school year, the Bandera-based, member-owned utility said.
Read moreThe sound of soft country music, low lights and the hum of sewing machines fill the air each day at the Wildhorse Saloon as a handful of Winter Texans from the Skyline Ranch RV Park produce handmade, cloth face masks for essential services personnel in Bandera County.
Read moreIn the midst of the coronavirus outbreak, rabies has reappeared in Bandera County, authorities said last week.
Read moreBULLETIN PHOTO/Tracy Thayer Helping Hand Executive Director Jesse Parks pulls out an Easy Street Shoe box from a batch of shoes that are on sale in the Helping Hand Thrift Store at 1116 12th St. in Bandera. The center’s thrift and food pantry remain open to help residents who need crisis assistance during the coronavirus outbreak and beyond. The thrift store, which generates funds to support Helping Hand programs, is not taking donations because of the outbreak but welcomes anyone who is healthy to come see what’s on the shelves .
Read moreHill Country Daily Bread Ministries said it is preparing for a dramatic increase in the number of families and individuals who will apply for emergency food and basic resource assistance as a result of economic hardships associated with the COVID-19 outbreak.
Read moreBandera County remained free of any confirmed coronavirus cases for another week and from any additional restrictions on the movement of residents and the operation of businesses other than those imposed almost two weeks ago by Texas Gov. Greg Abbott as the caseload of the deadly virus grew.
Read moreBandera Nursing & Rehabilitation center resident Vicki Torres, in foreground in photo at left, looks out the window at her granddaughter Mackenzie and other families who had come to visit her but had to do so outside the facility because of new safeguards implemented in nursing centers because of the coronavirus outbreak. In photo above, resident George Huth uses a tablet computer the center has to keep in contact with his sister during the health emergency. Rehab officials said they are taking extra steps to keep residents and their families in touch during the difficult times created by the coronavirus. COURTESY PHOTOS
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