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The Texas Division of Emergency Management (TDEM) urges all Texans impacted by this week’s severe storms to self-report property damage using TDEM’s iSTAT damage survey.

This spring, the League of Women Voters of Hays County is reaching out to eligible youth voters in Hays County between 18 and 25 years of age to register to vote and to learn more about the importance and process of voting.

Texas State University has earned a STARS Silver rating in recognition of its sustainability achievements from the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education (AASHE). STARS, the Sustainability Tracking, Assessment & Rating System measures and encourages sustainability in all aspects of higher education.

The San Marcos Police Department is asking the public for any leads in identifying a person suspected to be involved in a hit-and-run collision that injured a man.

The Texas Senate on Friday unveiled its priority school safety bill that would create a safety and security department housed in the Texas Education Agency. And the legislation would give the education commissioner more direct power to compel school districts to establish safety protocols for active-shooter situations.

Hays County remains gripped by excessive drought, but lawmakers have offered little in the way of proposals to quench the mounting problem. To the west, the Trinity Aquifer and the private wells it feeds are going dry. To the east, the San Marcos river flows at its lowest recorded level since 1997.

Though not the longest of races, the Fill the Sack 5K in San Marcos is leaps and bounds ahead when it comes to raising funds for School Fuel that works to feed the children of this community.

The San Marcos Police Department and the Kyle Police Department, through a joint investigation, announced the arrest of an 18-year-old man in connection to a fatal fentanyl overdose case involving a minor.

Texas House Speaker Dade Phelan’s main property tax proposal unveiled Thursday calls for $17 billion in cuts and a stricter cap on how much school district taxes can go up each year — setting up a stark divide between the Texas Legislature’s two chambers on how to provide tax relief to property owners this session.

The U.S. Department of Transportation has named Texas State University one of 34 University Transportation Centers (UTC) to enable the next generation of transportation professionals to make roads, bridges, rail, shipping and airspace safer, more innovative and more efficient.

The stage lights dimmed at San Marcos Consolidated Independent School District’s Crockett Elementary School and suddenly the audience wasn’t in San Marcos anymore. Magically, family and friends were transported to first, a house in Kansas, and then by way of a tornado, to the legendary land of Oz.

DEAR ABBY: I live with my longtime boyfriend, “George,” and his 88-yearold father, “Frank.” Frank is not your average 88-yearold. He does almost everything anyone in their 60s would do. However, he’s used to us having dinner for him at the same time every night because he’s very regimented about everything.