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Students from six area piano studios auditioned for membership in the National Fraternity of Student Musicians (NFSM) recently at San Marcos Academy.
The NFSM is the student organization sponsored by the National Guild of Piano Teachers and the American College of Musicians.
Students qualified in five different membership levels. Receiving National Membership pins were Andrei Apostol and Sabrina Zheng.
Those achieving district membership status were Cristen Cost, Kate Fu, Cathy He, Zephan Matteson, Will Ryan and Jonathan Tucker.

A teenage boy looking for arrowheads 54 years ago helped make the Hornsby Bend biosolids plant a prime destination for area birders.
It happened in November, 1959, when Pancho Oatman, from Austin, was walking along the Colorado River in Del Valle. Instead of arrowheads, he discovered large flocks of waterfowl near the river at the sewage ponds of Hornsby Bend.
On his initial visit, Pancho saw a Bonaparte's gull and four female common goldeneye ducks. These were the first of these species reported in Travis County.

Mabel Hall is the most recent recipient of the Price Seniors Center's Living Legend Award. She was born in San Marcos in 1924 and has lived her entire life here. She was married and had two children, Donna and Dennis, two grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren.
She has also been a lifelong member of the First Christian Church where she sang in the choir, sang solos and duets and at times directed the choir. Mabel has been unfailing in her devotion to the church and her congregation.

The dynamic springs below the tranquil surface of Spring Lake are flowing now just as they have for as long as humans have been around them.

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Big changes are on the way for downtown San Marcos that have nothing to do with the massive street work that’s been under way for months.

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