Capital Highlights: State’s jobless rate still double record low
The state’s unemployment rate dropped to 6.8% in January, down a tick from December’s 6.9% rate but double the record low of 3.4% in May 2019.
The state’s unemployment rate dropped to 6.8% in January, down a tick from December’s 6.9% rate but double the record low of 3.4% in May 2019.
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GALVESTON (AP) — An arrest warrant was issued for a woman who refused to wear a mask at a Texas bank, saying to a police officer: “What are you going to do, arrest me?”
The Hays County Local Health Department reported 46 additional recoveries, 90 new lab-confirmed cases, three new hospitalizations and two hospital discharges on Monday.
The San Marcos Police Department arrested a San Antonio man for the murder of a San Marcos woman on Friday.
One year ago, Hays County recorded its first presumptive positive COVID-19 case.
Earlier this week Texas’ COVID-19 mask mandate became a monumental footnote in the state's 175- year history.
Ollie Wilburn Hargis Giles was born in San Marcos on Aug. 5, 1933, the only child to parents L.C. Hargis and Enola Hollins (daughter of George Mose and Etta Lee Hollins). Though born during the Great Depression, Giles would say that she had a happy childhood surrounded by a family and community who loved her and whom she also loved.
Over $500 million in relief funds from the American Rescue Plan is coming to Central Texas governments, including $18 million for San Marcos.
Sheriff Gary Cutler announced that the Hays County Sheriff’s Office Citizens Academy is now accepting applications for the 2021 class, tentatively starting April 8. Applications are due March 15.
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