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Students from the Gary Job Corps Carpentry Trade are building a patio to assist the veterans with a BBQ area to show appreciation for our veterans. AMVETS will soon be celebrating their 10-year anniversary, and are advocates for veterans, such as VA claim filing assistance, employment, Veterans Court, and counseling. They collect items and send them to the troops in oversea assignments, in addition to assisting local veterans. AMVETS of Texas proudly provides support to veterans in America, open to all current and past veterans. Pictured are Gary Carpentry students, Gary Job Corps Instructor Paul Touchstone and Ben Arismendez, AMVET Provost Marshall. For further information American Veterans (AMVETS), Central Texas Post 115, 401 Veteran Drive, Kyle, Texas, 78640. pm@amvets115.org, https://amvets115.org, Post: 512-256-5683. Photo provided by Gary Job Corps

Gary Job Corps helps AMVETS

Fri, 05/05/2023 - 12:00am

Gary Job Corps helps AMVETS

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The City of San Marcos will host its annual Mini & Me Tea on Saturday from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. May 6 at the Pauline Espinosa Community Hall.
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The city is hosting an event to pay homage to the important women in young girls' lives that shape them into the adults that they will one day become. The event is a morning tea from 10 a.m to 1 p.m. on Saturday May 6 at the Pauline Espinosa Community Hall located at 170 Charles Austin Drive. The cost is $6 per person and will include activities, snacks and a keepsake photo. Registration closes at noon on May 5. The link to register online is sanmarcostx.gov/ activesmtx. For more information on other youth events go to sanmarcostx. gov/youth.

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Live Music Listing

Fri, 05/05/2023 - 12:00am

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MBB, WBB, WGolf score perfect on APR

Fri, 05/05/2023 - 12:00am

Men’s basketball, women’s basketball and women’s golf each had a perfect Academic Progress Rate (APR) while all 14 Texas State Athletics programs scored above 945 in the NCAA Division I 202122 APR multiyear rate as the NCAA released its recent data on Tuesday.

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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.

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Proposed meet and confer agreement offers areas of compromise, mutual benefit

Thu, 05/04/2023 - 12:00am

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.

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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.
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Alleged fentanyl dealer charged with murder in overdose death

Thu, 05/04/2023 - 12:00am

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.

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Early voting has finished with 4.5% of registered voters having cast a ballot. Election Day is Saturday, May 6.
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Early voting ends with 4.5% of register voters casting ballot

Thu, 05/04/2023 - 12:00am

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.

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Texas State College of Education meets teacher credentialing needs with its new online program

Thu, 05/04/2023 - 12:00am

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.

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THE ECONOMIST: THe economy of school

Thu, 05/04/2023 - 12:00am

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.