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The Frontier Times Museum is asking the public to help save its dressed fleas by coming to the museum’s annual Fall Super Yard Sale.

The Bandera Canyonlands Alliance, an organization dedicated to the preservation of natural resources in the Hill Country held its fall meeting at the Love Creek Preserve on Oct. 21.

The Medina Community Library staff is honored to announce the visit of New York Times bestselling author Jodi Thomas.

There is a new art exhibit at the Lakehills Area Library. Art instructor Shelly Swifts is displaying several works of art created by her and four of her students.

The Bandera Republican Party met on Thursday, Nov. 9, at the BEC Community Room, the party’s first meeting chaired under the leadership of new Party Chairman David Allen and recorded by new Party Secretary Elisa Greene.

The Texas Legislature, conceived as a part-time body to meet every other year for 140 days, is now in its record fifth session (counting the regular session). When the impeachment trial of Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is included, legislators have been in Austin pretty much the entire year, as the Texas Tribune noted. While legislators are paid just $7,200 a year in salary, per diem payments – meant to cover their expenses while in Austin – have mounted. If the fourth special session goes a full 30 days, taxpayers will have spent $4.8 million keeping lawmakers in Austin.

“I am humbled and honored to serve as the GOP Chair for the remainder of the unexpired term of our former Chairman, Mr. Conrad (Butch) Striegl.”

When you woke up this morning, did you think you could not go to church, the store or the movies because of a lack of freedom?

The Medina VFD served 484 plates of slow-cooked BBQ last Saturday to an overflow of patrons for all over Texans attending the annual Hunters’ Game Dinner.

The Bandera County Republican Women met last Thursday and hear from Cain Hager, a Belong rep who spoke on the foster care system in Bandera County.

The Bandera Lady Bulldog basketball team won their home opener by a score of 66 to 30 against the Gonzales Lady Apaches.

As the clock ran down on the Legislature’s third special session, Texas House and Senate leaders exchanged barbs over Gov. Greg Abbott’s school choice bill and border security proposals, the Austin American-Statesman reported.

The Women of Grace Lutheran Church recently completed, with God’s blessings, 78 quilts and 16 lap quilts.

Editor’s note – Readers are reminded that an arrest is not an indication of guilt. People are presumed innocent after an arrest until convicted.

The Bandera County Elections Department is reporting Tony Battle, Debbie Breen and Brett Hicks have won the city council race. 

The Bandera County Historical Commission unveiled their newe historical marker for the Bandera Water Works and the iconic “Tin Man” water tower following two years of extensive research and a detailed application process.

Gun owners of America director addresses party

The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department (TPWD) reported last week that it received confirmation of a case of chronic wasting disease (CWD) in Medina County, marking the fifth detection since 2015 in a deer-breeding facility in the county.