The San Marcos Consolidated Independent School District Board of Trustees discussed the need to better inform the community before voting on the potential restructuring of the board of trustees from five single-member districts and two at-large trustees to seven single-member districts at their regularly scheduled meeting Monday.
Beverly Penn instructs her class at Texas State University
Daily Record photo by Shannon West
Top, cast succulent and critters by Gerlyn Friesenhahm. Above, Student Sarah Carter pours the investment [plaster] in the mold for lost wax casting.
Daily Record photos by Shannon West
Art uses a variety of different mediums to evoke an emotional response in the viewer. One of its forms involves fire and molten metal and is certainly not for the faint of heart. Texas State University has a metals program in their fine arts department and Distinguished Professor Emeritus Beverly Penn is teaching art students to utilize a torch in order to make precious metals even more appealing.
Wearing masks for the band, Attic Ted, is a San Marcos tradition.
Photo by Christopher Paul Cardoza
Attic Ted's Grady Roper plays the clarinet.
Photo by Rebekah Anne Porter
A local band utilizes cardboard masks to create quirky characters that have become a staple of their performances–so much so that the crowd now dons the masks as well–dancing freely with the anonymity that a face-covering affords.
The San Marcos Consolidated Independent School District board of trustees decided against hiring chaplains to perform the duties of a school counselor at the regularly scheduled meeting Monday. Senate Bill 763 was recently passed by the Texas Legislature, which according to the Texas Legislature online website, states that a school district may employ a chaplain instead of a school counselor to perform the duties required of a school counselor under this title.
The San Marcos City Council is set to receive a staff presentation and hold a public hearing today with regard to its considerations of approving both the Vision SMTX Comprehensive Plan and the Downtown Area Plan.
Experts say the current drought in Texas is the most extreme the state has seen since the 1950s.
Several city of San Marcos departments are preparing ahead of the annular solar eclipse event happening on Saturday, Oct. 14. While San Marcos is not directly in the path of the eclipse, the city anticipates increased traffic as observers travel to preferred viewing locations.
The Indigenous Cultures Institute, in partnership with the city of San Marcos, is hosting an event that honors and shares the cultural heritage of Native Americans indigenous to Texas and northern Mexico.
Get ready to dance back in time to the “groovy 70s” as the San Marcos High School Rattler alumni from this era come together for its reunion, called the “That 70’s Reunion Show,” on Saturday, Nov. 11 at the LBJ Center on the campus of Texas State University.
Just as a scene from a favorite CSI television program, equipment makes the difference in modern forensic science work at the DPS lab in Austin. Above, device for analyzing paint chips. Below, machine for checking toxic chemicals. Bottom, the gun range for test-firing weapons.
Daily Record photos by Shannon West
Crime lab chemicals are set for an examination in Austin.
Daily Record photo by Shannon West
DPS crime lab hosts tours for National Forensic Science week
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