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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 dookie caper My assignment seemed simple enough. I was to climb a six-foot high chainlink fence under cover of darkness. Once over the fence, I’d have to cover about 20 yards to a sewage truck, crawl underneath said truck and place a magnetic GPS tracking device somewhere along its frame. Piece of cake.

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.

For the first time since 2007, the Bandera Bulldogs are bi-district champions.

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.

What is your motivation when you pray?

While Republicans rail against “wokeness” as one of their frantic appeals to attract voters, they fail to see the hypocrisy and outright danger in what they push forward in policy priorities and actions – a “sleep’ agenda.

Former President Donald Trump continues to lead incumbent President Joe Biden in the most important battleground states in the latest Morning Consult- Bloomberg poll taken Oct. 30 to Nov. 3 with an overall 47 percent to 41 percent margin.

Terry Sue Hubble Mc-Donald, of Kerrville, was born in Hondo Texas on Sept. 5, 1946 to H W “Buddy” and Nora Ann Bendele Hubble. She went to be with her Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ on Nov. 1, 2023.

Margie Lee Bratton, 86 of Bandera passed away on Nov. 5, 2023. She was born in Comfort, Texas to Edwin and Dollie Schoenert on Sept. 27, 1937. She married Bernie Bratton on Jan. 10, 1959.

“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 Bobcats concluded their regular season on Friday, Nov. 3, versus the Panthers from Nueces Canyon.

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.