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KZSM: Volunteering? Or thinking About It?
KZSM: Volunteering? Or thinking About It?
Whether you’re considering volunteering or are already giving your time to a local organization, KZSM.org can engage your creativity and expand your outreach. 03/05/2023 05:00 AM
Cpl. Donald Lee retires with city honors for service
Cpl. Donald Lee retires with city honors for service
Cpl. Donald Lee retires with city honors for service 03/05/2023 05:00 AM
Texas State stays on top at Owl Classic
Texas State stays on top at Owl Classic
Texas State softball had a run rule win and extra inning win in its pair of outings against Penn and Illinois State on the second day of the Owl Classic. 03/05/2023 05:00 AM
Getting runners mindset
Getting runners mindset
The weather is warming up and there are more races for runners to enter. It is time to shake off the cold weather missed days of running and start to concentrate on getting the times down to what you set last summer or fall. There are a number of race entrants that do a slow jog or even walk a 5K distance. They mention that they are just in the race for exercise, or to support the sponsoring organizations charity, but whether they run for fun or not every runner or walker likes to know their time. Invariably everybody seems to like setting a PR in a race whether they run or walk. Walkers will pick up the pace, or even do a jog, to set a faster time. 03/05/2023 05:00 AM
Exploring Nature
Exploring Nature: Yellowrumped Warbler
I was quite pleased that one of the first birds I spotted in the new year was a yellow-rumped warbler. 03/05/2023 05:00 AM
Answers to Go
Answers to Go
Q.My birthday is coming up! What is the history of the birthday and how do people around the world celebrate them? A. Birthdays, of course, did not begin until ancient people began to take note of nature’s cycles — the moon, sun, stars, growth of plants, etc. This is what prompted humans to create calendar systems — the need to track the cycles of life and be able to identify when someone has lived for one cycle. Pagan religions were the first to notice and track these changes. In Western culture, Christians initially did not celebrate birthdays because they associated them with paganism and “original sin.” Pagans thought that evil spirits lurked on days of major changes, like the day you turn a year older. They often lit candles to scare off evil spirits — enter the birthday candle. The ancient Greeks believed that each person had a spirit that attended his or her birth and kept watch. That spirit “had a mystic relation with the God on whose birthday the individual was born,” says the book “The Lore of Birthdays.” (DeRusha) It wasn’t until the 4th century that Christians began to celebrate birthdays because they began celebrating the birth of Jesus. In the 18th century, in Germany, Kinderfest was celebrated, and included a cake, candles and blowing them out to make a wish. This started birthdays for children. The industrial revolution made birthday celebrations more accessible as the required ingredients for a cake — sugar, flour, eggs, etc. because they were more readily available. 03/05/2023 05:00 AM
Texas State holds off App State for win
Texas State holds off App State for win
Texas State held off a late rally by Appalachian State to advance to the Sun Belt Tournament Semifinals in a 56-47 win over the Mountaineers. 03/05/2023 05:00 AM
Rattlers strike for bite at Regional Finals
Rattlers strike for bite at Regional Finals
SAN ANTONIO - Survive and advance is the name of the game in March and the San Marcos Rattlers (38-3) with their brotherhood mentality and a hard, gritty effort knocked off the San Antonio Warren Warriors 53-50 on Friday night. 03/05/2023 05:00 AM
Is AARP putting profits over the interests of its members?
Is AARP putting profits over the interests of its members?
Washington is full of groups that claim to represent the interests of the American people. Some have lots of members, which makes them formidable actors in the ongoing effort to craft public policy. 03/05/2023 05:00 AM
Corporate welfare policies
Corporate welfare policies
Thank you for the comprehensive news article published in the Record on March 2 about continuing tax incentives and rebates to corporations that are interested in relocating or expanding in Texas. Left out of the discussion is whether such corporate welfare is good public policy. Over two decades ago, Time magazine published a lengthy investigative report that demonstrated that such corporate welfare does little, if anything, for communities and school districts. Such corporations regularly fail to fully honor the agreements to hire new employees at good wages or invest in local communities at specified rates. 03/05/2023 05:00 AM
Earn this universe
Earn this universe
I was out in my front yard earlier this week, staring up at the night sky, and feeling impossibly humbled by the scale and the grandeur of the universe. 03/05/2023 05:00 AM
Wimberley Players present classical guitarist Charles Cavanaugh in concert
Wimberley Players present classical guitarist Charles Cavanaugh in concert
The Wimberley Players will present classical guitarist Charles Cavanaugh to lead off as the first performer of the 2023 season concerts. The 108-seat Wimberley Playhouse is ideally suited for solo and duet musical performances. Cavanaugh will be performing original compositions and telling the stories that inspired him. 03/05/2023 05:00 AM
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