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An online COVID-19 testing site map to help Texans locate test collection sites within their community has been launched by the Texas Division of Emergency Management and Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, the governor’s office said in a news release last month.
Read moreThe Bandera County Republican Women will hold a meeting on Thursday, May 7, but it will be online, not in person, and will give participants an opportunity to hear Texas Republican Party Chairman James Dickey talk about what’s being done to keep the state in Republican hands in the upcoming election.
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Chikin Coop customers enjoy meals and drinks at tables set up just outside the establishment’s property lines along Main Street in Bandera on Saturday, May 2, the second day restaurants were allowed to serve customers inside their doors since strict limitations were imposed on business activities more than a month ago in the fight against the coronavirus. Bandera Mayor Suzanne Schauman, whose family owns the bar, said since the tavern makes more money off alcohol than food, it still has to sell food on a to-go basis. But allowances in state regulations made tables just beyond the bar’s property lines acceptable for customers to use. BULLETIN PHOTO/Bill Pack
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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 moreControls on public activity and on access to public areas continued to tighten up this week as state and local officials sought better ways to limit the spread of the deadly coronavirus.
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BULLETIN PHOTO/Bill Pack Cheri Nyenhuis, seated left, and Mary Holvey, seated right, are among the sewing group at the Skyline Ranch RV Park working on safety masks last week to protect people from infection during the coronavirus outbreak. The group of Winter Texans made more than 600 masks for delivery to different groups since February. Please see story on Page 7.
Read moreA divided Bandera City Council voted on Monday, April 6, to bring an experienced hand in city operations back to council on an interim basis to complete the term of a councilman who resigned last month after deciding to relocate with his nonprofit agency to the Austin area.
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