City to showcase programs, services at 'SMTX 2023' event
Thu, 05/04/2023 - 12:00am
The city of San Marcos will host its annual citywide update, SMTX 2023 on May 9.
The city of San Marcos will host its annual citywide update, SMTX 2023 on May 9.
In a process that has taken many months, members of the San Marcos City Council finally heard the particulars of a renegotiated meet and confer agreement between it and the San Marcos Police Officers Association.
District Attorney Kelly Higgins speaks at a press conference announcing a new charge of murder added to the case pending against an alleged fentanyl dealer.
Daily Record photo by Shannon West
Jaquell Desean Ray
Hays County Sheriff's Office hosted a joint press conference with the District Attorney’s Office and the Drug Enforcement Agency’s Fentanyl Task Force at the county’s Public Safety Building Wednesday to provide an update of the investigation into the death of 15-year-old male from a fentanyl overdose on April 11. Police said they have arrested and charged an 18-year-old with both felony murder and delivery of a controlled dangerous substance.
Early voting has finished with 4.5% of registered voters having cast a ballot. Election Day is Saturday, May 6.
Daily Record photo by Dalton Sweat
Local elections have been ramping up, and this is the community’s chance to weigh in on San Marcos Consolidated Independent School District Trustee members and bonds.
School districts across Texas face a demand to hire more state-credentialed teachers to teach popular advanced academic courses. Texas State University’s College of Education aims to help address that need with the new fully online Master of Education in Secondary Education — Teaching Advanced Academics Concentration.
This week marked the deadline for first-year college applicants to many universities to decide about whether and where to enroll. It can be a very difficult choice involving a range of financial, educational, and emotional factors. Through high school, options are much more limited for most young people. Beyond that point, however, a vast number of paths emerge – full-time work, technical training programs, colleges and universities, and much more. Let’s look at what recent high school and college graduates are doing.
First Republic Bank has become the second large regional bank with assets over $200 billion to fail in just a few weeks. Like Silicon Valley Bank, which was seized by the government on March 10, First Republic catered to a wealthy clientele, which helped it grow deposits rapidly but may have also contributed to its undoing. The bank's business model left it susceptible to a sudden rise in interest rates.
The Rattlers celebrate scoring a run against Cibolo Steele in one of their last home games.
Daily Record photo by Gerald Castillo
Playoff baseball is upon us once more as the San Marcos Rattlers look to win their first playoff game since 2018 as they square off with the San Antonio Churchill Chargers It’s been an historic season for the Rattlers who bounced back from a 1817-1 record last season to a 22-9-1 record this year, which included winning the district championship for the first time since 2010.
Lizzy Fritzler signs her National Letter of Intent surrounded by her parents Abby and Joel Fritzler
Photo by Kaidence Thompson
This past Wednesday, Lizzy Fritzler, a senior at Hill Country Christian School, committed to the University of Health Sciences and Pharmacy in St. Louis, Missouri, to be a member of their track and field team, throwing both shotput and discus. Lizzy will be studying pharmacology and plans to get her Doctor of Pharmacy degree.
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