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Roque “Rocky” Prado Sr.
Roque “Rocky” Prado Sr.
Roque “Rocky” Prado Sr., 89, of San Marcos, Texas, died on Friday, September 10, 2021. Services took place at St. John the Evangelist Catholic Church in San Marcos on Thursday, September 16 at noon, followed by interment at Memory Lawn Memorial Park in Martindale, Texas. Arrangements were under the direction of Thomason Funeral Home. For more information and to sign the online registry, please visit thomasonfuneralhome.com. 09/19/2021 05:00 AM
William F. Ross
William F. Ross
William Franklin Ross, 76, of Driftwood, Texas, died on Wednesday, September 15, 2021. Services are pending. Arrangements are under the direction of Thomason Funeral Home. For more information and to sign the online registry, please visit thomasonfuneralhome.com. 09/19/2021 05:00 AM
Bird to the Wise
Bird to the Wise
It was one of those perfect San Marcos Saturdays: cool and cloudless, with a light breeze stirring through the trees. At 7 a.m., a small crowd gathered in the Meadows Center parking lot — families with children, pairs and trios of college students, older couples and groups of friends. Some of them had field guides, some had binoculars; all were gathered to hear Texas State graduate Stephen Ramirez talk about birds. 09/19/2021 05:00 AM
Belgian Mums thrill with fall performance
Belgian Mums thrill with fall performance
After a long, brutally hot summer, two tropical storms and a hurricane, one could use a little perk up and no plant brings cheer like the chrysanthemum. Cooler temperatures partnered with a few mum containers with flowers numbering in the thousands will boost your spirits like few other plants. 09/19/2021 05:00 AM
Hays County Master Gardeners hosts annual plant and tree sale
Hays County Master Gardeners hosts annual plant and tree sale
Hays County Master Gardeners will hold its annual Fall Plant and Tree Sale online and in-person this year. The HCMGA members are putting their expertise to work to bring their finest plantings and transplants from their own home gardens. Texas Superstar, Texas native and adapted perennials, grasses, shrubs, trees and succulents will be for sale. 09/19/2021 05:00 AM
Analysis: Population changes the recipe for Texas’ political soup
Analysis: Population changes the recipe for Texas’ political soup
Political people often compare Texas election maps to a state-shaped bowl of tomato soup with blueberries sprinkled in it. Most of the state in those post-election illustrations is Republican red, with smaller areas — the big cities and, increasingly, their suburbs — colored Democratic blue. 09/19/2021 05:00 AM
Letter to the Editor
Letter to the Editor
Nearly 100 years ago, in Jacobson v. Massachusetts, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled 7-2 that vaccine mandates were constitutional. Justice John Marshall Harlan explained that “Real liberty for all could not exist under the operation of a principle which recognizes the right of each individual person to use his own [liberty in a way that results in injury to others].” 09/19/2021 05:00 AM
Are you bathing too frequently?
Are you bathing too frequently?
When I worked at my late uncle’s junkyard during junior high school, one of the regular customers (a crusty coot who resembled a cantankerous Roy Rogers sidekick wannabe) assured us that he luxuriated in a steaming bathtub each and every night. 09/19/2021 05:00 AM
Exploring Nature
EXPLORING NATURE: HORNSBY BEND
Don’t turn up your nose at sewage pond birding. 09/19/2021 05:00 AM
Commentary: Texas State owns up to ‘embarrassing’ loss to Incarnate Word
Commentary: Texas State owns up to ‘embarrassing’ loss to Incarnate Word
09/19/2021 12:20 AM
Texas State stunned at home by Incarnate Word, 42-38
Texas State stunned at home by Incarnate Word, 42-38
09/19/2021 12:19 AM
Bears win big over Mustangs at home, 45-0
Bears win big over Mustangs at home, 45-0
09/18/2021 01:26 PM
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