Ozona Bank helps to keep stars bright in area skies

“It's important to me, because I love seeing the stars at night,” Jenifer Reed, branch operations manager at Ozona Bank San Marcos, said. “I mean, they say the stars at night are big and bright, deep in the heart of Texas. Well, it wouldn't be if we didn't keep the lights down.”

Ozona Bank is the first business in San Marcos to receive the “Be a Star: Nature, Neighbor and Night Sky Friendly Award” from the International Dark-Sky Association-Texas and Hays County Friends of the Night Sky.

To do so, Ozona Bank changed out the lights and fixtures to attempt to limit light pollution, something they have also done at their branch in Wimberley.