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The Bandera County Republican Women recently announced that Darcy Hasty was chosen as the next President of the Bandera County Republican Women.

The internationally acclaimed vocal group, The Swingles, will be bringing their signature a cappella sound to the stage at Champion Auditorium when they open Boerne Performing Arts’ twelfth season on Jan. 27.

Surface Water Staff from the Bandera County River Authority and Groundwater District collected water samples from sites along the Medina River, Medina Lake, Sabinal River and their tributaries to assess levels of E. coli bacteria on Dec. 20.

Please join the Board of your library in wishing the very best to Mauri Guillen Fagan as she leaves us for another leadership position in Bandera. You are invited to stop by the Library on Thursday, Jan. 11, from 1-3 p.m. to celebrate her accomplishments and contributions to the Library and bid her farewell.

The League of Women Voters of the Hill Country Texas will meet on Saturday, Jan. 13 at the Doyle Center located at 110 West Barnett in Kerrville.

The deadline to register to vote in the Texas Democratic and Republican primary elections is Feb. 5. Voters on March 5 will choose their nominees for president, U.S. Senator, all 38 U.S. House members from Texas, and a number of other state and local offices, from the Texas Supreme Court to district attorneys, sheriffs and county commissioners.

It’s been 20 years since the Eye Reckon Freedom Ride left Bandera to blaze a historic trail to Calgary, Canada.

I tend to be a rule follower, but I don’t like it when rules don’t make sense or seem fair. Who gets to decide what makes sense or what is “fair”?

Last year about this time, I resolved to start off the year on a positive note, but, alas. “How dare you!”... to quote young Greta. Ms. Jodie Sinclair has again turned her award-winning journalistic skills to manipulating emotions and employing the Saul Alinsky tactic of accusing her opposition of her own party initiatives. Beginning with a WWII story lauding the heroic sacrifice of our parents and grandparents to attract our patriotic emotions, she contorts into a fabricated description of a dystopian world that her Leftist followers are actualy bringing to fruition incrementally, even as the “boiling frog” analogy.

What a courageous group of Marines at Tarawa. Willing to give everything to keep Americans free and end the war. It instills deep appreciation and deep sadness at the same time. I’m sure it was a difficult thing to film. You warn in your letter to the editor, that the enemy we face is now from within in the person of Donald Trump. I am a bit amazed by your foreknowledge of Trumps agenda. Authoritarian rule through the Executive branch, neutralizing the power of the Supreme Court and Congress, essentially disrupting our checks and balances? Or has that been happening or attempted already? I agree, it is time to honor those young men by doing our job.

In loving memory of Jack Edward Dunn, a devoted son, husband, father, and friend who passed away on Dec. 17, 2023, in Kerrville, Texas and left a legacy of love, adventure, and service. Born in Odessa, Texas on Dec. 4, 1958, to Jimmie W. Dunn and Mary Frances Dunn, Jack’s journey through life was marked by diverse experiences and unwavering dedication to those for whom he cared.

James Russel Garza passed away Dec. 15, 2023, at home in Pipe Creek, Texas. He was born on Feb. 23, 1958, in Carrizo Springs. Texas. He grew in Crystal City, Texas, where he developed lifelong friends through football, playing trumpet in the marching and jazz band and being a mischievous altar boy.

Lloyd Gilbert Hickman, age 94 years and 7 months, of Bandera, Texas was called home by his Lord and Savior on Dec. 31, 2023, in San Antonio, Texas.

Sterling Quinn Gotthardt age 71 of Bandera, Texas passed away peacefully and went to be with our Lord on Jan. 2, 2024. He was born on Feb. 20, 1952, to Bill and Betty Gotthardt.

Beverly Ann Gordon Aldridge was born on July 23, 1949, in Little Rock Arkansas to Howard and Louise Gordon. They moved to Harlingen, Texas where she lived with her parents and brother Tom Gordon and sister Helen Simpson.

Myra Beth (Thurman) Golemon, 74, of San Antonio, passed away Dec. 23, 2023, in Live Oak. She was born in Kerrville, on Feb. 3, 1949, to Vernon W. Thurman and Florence Lydia Woerner. She married James Stephen “Steve” Golemon on Feb. 3, 1968, in Kerrville, TX.

Kerry Lee Snider of Bandera, Texas, Born Aug. 9 1955, in Worcester, Massachusetts. She passed away Dec. 29, 2023. 

Limitless Land Group, LLC, has been ordered to cease developing lots or units for sale until the outcome of a March trial that will determine if the company, who owns Riverwalk RV Resort in Bandera, is in violation of Bandera County’s platting requirements.