Hays County residents and visitors can now access crime and arrest data for all of Hays County on one platform hosted called Citizens Connect. The system, by Tyler Technologies, boasts being the first in Texas to have all law enforcement agencies in the same county sharing data on a single Citizens Connect platform.
For seven days, people will be meeting at 8:30 a.m. at the Hays County Historic Courthouse in San Marcos to bring together their power of prayer in the goal of seeking the return of rain to this community. Area churches and others have been gathering periodically in the community over the last several weeks to pray for rain to alleviate some of the intense drought and heat affecting the city, the county and the state. Among churches recently participating here are PromiseLand, Sinai Pentecostal Church, First Baptist Church San Marcos, First Baptist Church NBC and San Marcos Community Church. Rain is forecast as a possibility this afternoon and through the evening as part of a tropical system coming out of the Gulf of Mexico.
Photos provided by Mark Carillo
PRAYERS FOR RAIN
Acclaimed playwright Carlos Morton will be the subject of a career tribute during the 21st annual Black and Latino Playwrights Celebration Aug. 28-Sept. 3 at Texas State University.
At least 41 people have died in stifling, uncooled prisons of either heart-related or unknown causes during Texas’ relentless and record-breaking heat wave this summer, according to a Texas Tribune analysis.
DEAR ABBY: My daughter is the youngest kid in the neighborhood, and a girl up the street treats her horribly. She calls her a baby, tells her she’s not a person and sends her home when everybody plays at her house.
Top left, Cathy Ramsey, Western Hays County project coordinator for the Save Our Springs Alliance, stands by her 20,000-gallon rainwater cistern in Dripping Springs. Top right, Robert Mace, executive director of the Meadows Center for Water and the Environment at Texas State University, points out features in San Marcos Springs. Above/right, David Baker, founder/director of the Wimberley Watershed Association, has seen Jacob’s Well stop flowing six times; he’s never seen the water as low as it is now.
Photos by Dylan Baddour/Inside Climate News
Almost every other day, Charlie Flatten gets a call about another local water well gone dry.
Sn Marcos High School physics teacher David Joiner instructs students in a new business research course.
Photo by SMCISD
San Marcos High School begins the 2023-2024 school year with a new Business Research course, where students will be the first and only high schoolers in the country to work with the esteemed Harvard Case Study Method.
Editor's Note: This is Part Two in a series looking at conservation measures for land and water resources in Hays County.
For the fifth year, veteran KZSM DJ Metal Mark Moniz presents a massive celebration of heavy metal music encompassing three nights, three venues, and 18 bands.
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