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At the March 28 Commissioners’ Court, Sheriff Dan Butts and EMS Director Shannon Griffin presented their department reports for the month of February. Butts reported that the Sheriff’s Office responded to 517 calls for service and traveled 18,549 miles.

On March 28, the Bandera County Commissioners’ Court heard the presentation of the Bandera County audit for fiscal year ending September 30, 2023, by Keith Neffendorf of Neffendorf & Blocker, P.C.

At the March 28 Bandera County Commissioners’ Court regular meeting, the court and Wayne Gondeck of DRG Architects opened the sealed estimates of five construction contractors bidding on the project to build a new county annex building.

CARF International, the Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities, announced that Peterson Health has been accredited for a period of three years for its comprehensive inpatient rehabilitation and stroke specialty programs.

Texas Parks and Wildlife Department (TPWD) and Texas Animal Health Commission (TAHC) reported they recently received confirmation of two cases of Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) in a Real County deer breeding facility, marking the first detections in the county.

Last Friday, The Arthur Nagel Clinic hosted a luncheon to kick off their annual upcoming April 13 Bunny Run on Saturday, April 13.

State agencies and regulators were heavily criticized at a Texas legislative hearing for failing to communicate during the deadly Panhandle wildfires, the Texas Tribune reported.

That’s not farfetched! Americans love Mafia bosses.

Anyone who has been around Bandera for any length of time will certainly have stories and memories associated with the Medina River. For us oldtimers it was the ultimate entertainment available while we were going through our younger years. And it was free!!!

Medina Track and Field had a good day at the District 31-A Track Meet on Thursday, April 4th in Leakey, Texas. The top four finishers in the varsity division qualified for the Area Meet to be held in Tilden, Texas, on Thursday, April 11th.

Enough already. The eclipse of April 8 has been smothered with coverage by both mass and social media. Americans — some who flail at things that go “bump” in the night — yearned for even more darkness! They carved out time from busy schedules and squeezed funds from their budgets to make their way to a slice of the globe where the solar eclipse darkened the day for some four minutes — give or take a few seconds.

Since the beginning of this year, measles cases have been reported in eleven states spanning both coasts and heartland. The situation warrants enough concern that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued a warning to doctors about renewed measles risk.

Anita Pearl (Reed) McMinn of Medina, Texas passed away on March 31, 2024, Easter. She was born to Andrew B. Reed and Tressie Edna (Seale) Reed on June 14, 1927, one of 5 children. 

Apparently about several tracts totalling around 400 acres were purchased on Hwy. 1340 across the road from Camp Stewart, by an out of town developer and were being cleared, trees burned and roads built including down into the Guadalupe River. Ron Duke, of the Kerr County Water Alliance (KCWA-contact page on website), reported this major river and land violation to me and others on March 21st. This is a new citizen's group formed to observe and protect our county's water resources. As you know, groundwater (aquifers) and the river comprise the bulk of our Kerr County water supplies and they are connected - groundwater produces the springs, which in turn produce most area creek and river flows.

The Bandera County Republican Party held its Precinct and County Conventions on Saturday, March 23, 2024 at the Pipe Creek Community Center.