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KZSM — The community record player

Vinyl recordings are making a comeback, but at KZSM, they never went away. Every Monday night from 10 p.m. to midnight, Rob Roark hosts “Vinyl Confessions,” keeping two turntables spinning to play “nothing but legitimate vinyl.” “In this fastpaced digital world of snippets of music on the go,” he observes, “there is a newfound appreciation of a pressed vinyl disc. Generations old and new can come together over music wrapped in a sleeve of art from a different era; when a needle vibrates in that groove at 33 1/3 or 45 revolutions per minute, sounds will be amplified, and broadcast worldwide.”

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The City of San Marcos invited residents to the Price Center on Thursday for a final open house and draft review of the plan, an 168-page living document and framework to guide growth in San Marcos over the next 20 years. The City of San Marcos also presented its draft Downtown Area Plan on Thursday.  Above, a city staff member presents a board illustrating the Preferred Scenario Map at the Price Center, 222 W San Antonio Street for the final SMTX Vision Comprehensive Plan Open House on Thursday. Below, attendees chat at the SMTX Vision Comprehensive Plan Open House.  Daily Record photos by Zoe Gottlieb

PLANNING AHEAD: City invites feedback on Vision SMTX Comprehensive Plan Rewrite

After two years, the City of San Marcos has published its draft Vision SMTX Comprehensive Plan Rewrite.

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Hays County recently acquired Purgatory Creek Nature Preserve (pictured above) in an effort to permanently protect and preserve the 1,068-acre conservation easement from future development.  Photo courtesy of Hays County

Hays County acquires Purgatory Creek Nature Preserve

Hays County recently acquired Purgatory Creek Nature Preserve in an effort to permanently protect and preserve the 1,068-acre conservation easement from future development.

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The San Marcos Main Street Program will honor businesses and  volunteers for their excellence and contributions to downtown San Marcos in 2022 during  the 8th Annual Love Downtown Award ceremony. Above, Main Street Program awarded Zelicks Icehouse with the Business of the Year award during the 7th annual Love Downtown Awards in 2022. Daily Record file photo

San Marcos Main Street calls for 8th Annual Love Downtown Award nominations

Downtown businesses and volunteers can now be nominated for the 8th Annual Love Downtown Award ceremony.

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Nineteen friends of Gil Fulmer showed up in cold and wet weather in December for the dedication of a planting of a Bur Oak tree at the San Marcos Public Library in his memory.  Gil died in March 2022 at the age of 77. Photo courtesy of Hill Country Freethinkers Association

Hill Country Freethinkers Association donates tree to San Marcos Public Library

Nineteen friends of Gil Fulmer showed up in cold and wet weather in December for a dedication of the planting of a Bur Oak tree at the San Marcos Public Library in his memory.  Gil died in March 20

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