Jessica Cousineau
The San Marcos Rotary Club will host an international student.
Photo by San Marcos Rotary Club
The Rotary Club of San Marcos will host a Rotary Youth Exchange student for the 2023-2024 school year–the first exchange student the club has hosted since COVID 19.
Miller Middle School’s Dancing Diamonds held their annual spring show Wednesday, April 26. The theme was “Dance is LIFE.” Performers included the 2022-23 Elite Dancing Diamonds Team Jazz; 1st Period Class Dance Pom; 22-23 Elite Dancing Diamond Officer Contemporary; 2nd Period Class Dance Hip Hop; 5th Period Class Dance Kick; 22-23 Elite Dancing Diamonds Team Lyrical; 22-23 Elite Diamonds Team Hip Hop; 6th Period Class Dance Pom; 7th Period Class Dance Lyrical; and 22-23 Elite Dancing Diamonds Officer Jazz.
Photo by SMCISD
SPARKLING ROUTINES
Texas State University and Laredo College officials announced a formal agreement designed to ease the transfer of students from Laredo to the San Marcos campus.
Now, in our sixth year of continuous live-streaming internet broadcasting as KZSM.org, your true community radio station will be extending the many voices of our diverse, vibrant community onto a new platform.
Moe Johnson Running with Moe
I was recalling some of the highlights from watching the Boston Marathon a couple of weeks ago. Boston and New York are the largest marathons in the United States and seem to be the most recognized. Boston is different in the fact that you have to run a qualifying time to enter.
The Austin Gay Men’s Chorus will take the stage for “Ascending Colour: An AGMC Concert,” which will spotlight music arranged and composed by people of color and the LGBTQIA+ communities, on Saturday, May 6 at 8 p.m. and Sunday, May 7 at 4 p.m. at First Austin, 901 Trinity Street in Austin. Tickets are available online at atxgmc.org/.
April is National Kite Month.
Photo from Metro Creative
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Q.I saw that the library will have a kite exhibit this summer called “The Sacred Springs.” How are kites associated with the springs?
Our resident “ugly bird” the vulture might find itself in good company with the African spoonbill.
Photo from Metro Creative
By contrast, one of our local “beautiful birds,” the yellow-crowned night heron can be seen around the San Marcos River.
Photo by Jason Cook
Not all birds are beautiful.
Above, Kutter Gage Webb crosses home plate for the Rattlers first run of the game Friday. Webb finished the game with two singles and a triple in the team's 7-0 win. Below, left, Gavin Gomez makes a sliding catch in left field during the game that was hampered by severe weather. Gomez closed out the final four innings on the pitcher's mound allowing no runs.
Daily Record photos by Gerald Castillo
Dallas Calderon slides into home to score the Rattlers second run before showers delayed the game.
Daily Record photo by Gerald Castillo
San Marcos capped off the regular season in emphatic fashion as the Rattlers defeated New Braunfels, 7-0 to complete the season sweep of the Unicorns.
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