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Exploring Nature: Contest Winner

We have a winner! Suzanne H. Leighton, of San Marcos, has submitted the winning poem in my poetry contest. As you may recall, the only requisites were the poem should be reasonably short, about birds and/or nature and should rhyme. I had a hard time choosing a winner from all the excellent submissions. 02/27/2022 05:00 AM

Oui chérie

Mardi Gras is a period of revelry that takes place on the Tuesday prior to the start of the Christian season of Lent. Mardi Gras, French for “Fat Tuesday,” is celebrated in various regions of the world, but perhaps nowhere are celebrations as festive as in New Orleans, where the French-Creole culture mingles with the parades, brass bands, tossed beads, and all around good fun and great food. 02/27/2022 05:00 AM

TXST Dance presents STREAM in Motion 7.0

TXST Dance presents STREAM in Motion 7.0

Texas State University’s Division of Dance presents STREAM in Motion 7.0 in the Harrison Performing Arts Center on Feb. 28 and March 1 at 9 a.m. 02/27/2022 05:00 AM

Trees are never finished

Trees are never finished: An overview of three San Marcos galleries celebrating the life’s work of Bill Hutson

Editor’s note: This is part of an ongoing series of features celebrating the life and artwork of San Marcos-born artist Bill Hutson. 02/27/2022 05:00 AM

Rockin Playin the Blues Salvia: All About the bees, birds and butterflies

Rockin Playin the Blues Salvia: All About the bees, birds and butterflies

There is not a gardener I meet who doesn’t crave plants that are all about blooms, birds and butterflies. Shoot add bees to it and you would have a surefire award winner. The Dallas Arboretum has one of the superior plant trials in the country and they gave the award for most Pollinator Friendly Perennial to Rockin’ Playin’ the Blues salvia. 02/27/2022 05:00 AM

Coping with an abusive relationship

Coping with an abusive relationship

The following article is the final part of a four-week series focusing on raising awareness about dating violence. February is Dating Violence Awareness month, and we hope to educate our community on this very important issue. One-inthree young people will experience dating violence in their lifetime. Locally, the Hays-Caldwell Women’s Center has been serving victims of domestic and dating violence, sexual assault, and child abuse since 1978. Last year, HCWC served 2,055 victims of abuse (face-to-face) primarily from Hays and Caldwell Counties. 02/27/2022 05:00 AM

Analysis: Putin’s war imperils global security arrangements

Analysis: Putin’s war imperils global security arrangements

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — It was the tale of two Vladimirs — one noble, grim and stubbornly open to peace; the other angry, threatening and bellicose — on a day that seemed to presage the demise of the security architecture, consensus and arrangements that have kept Europe and the world, for the most part, stable and secure for three-quarters of a century. 02/27/2022 05:00 AM

Hays County records 334 recoveries from COVID-19, 131 new cases Friday

Hays County records 334 recoveries from COVID-19, 131 new cases Friday

02/26/2022 04:50 PM

Russian troops zero in on Kyiv as 150,000 Ukrainians flee

Russian troops zero in on Kyiv as 150,000 Ukrainians flee

02/26/2022 04:43 PM

Fleeing to the border: Over 150,000 Ukrainians seek refuge

Fleeing to the border: Over 150,000 Ukrainians seek refuge

02/26/2022 04:42 PM

Prayers and despair: Ukrainians in the US decry invasion

Prayers and despair: Ukrainians in the US decry invasion

02/26/2022 04:39 PM

‘Cats claw their way past Troy, set for Sun Belt tournament as No. 1 seed

‘Cats claw their way past Troy, set for Sun Belt tournament as No. 1 seed

02/26/2022 04:35 PM

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