Funding has been recommended for an Indigenous Cultures Center for Hays County. Above, the Indigenous Cultures Institute holds a prayer rally for the cultures center on Oct. 11. Daily Record photo by Madi Telschow
Funding for an Indigenous Cultures Center for Hays County received a recommendation from the Parks and Open Spaces Advisory Commission.
The City of San Marcos’s 2021 Downtown Design Project received two 2021 Planning Achievement Awards from the American Planning Association. Pictured above, back row. Anna Essington, Amanda Hernandez, Katy Riddle, Amanda Mushinski, Linda Coker, Craig Garrison, Cesly Burrell, Julia Cleary and Alison Break. Front row, Mayor Jane Hughson, Andrea Villalobos, Chance Sparks, William Agnew and Susan Walker. Photo courtesy of the City of San Marcos
The City of San Marcos’s 2021 Downtown Design Project received two 2021 Planning Achievement Awards from the American Planning Association.
Managing Editor Nick Castillo, known as “Saint Nick,” reads a copy of the Daily Record, while elves Colton Ashabranner and Alyssa Gonzales prepare gifts donated during our toy drive. Daily Record photo by Lance Winter
The San Marcos Daily Record and San Marcos CISD Christmas Toy Drive is underway and continues until Dec. 8.
LONDON (AP) — Britain became the latest country Saturday to report cases of the new potentially more contagious omicron variant of the coronavirus as governments around the world sought to shore up their defenses by slapping restrictions on travel from nations in southern Africa.
Federal health regulators say an experimental COVID-19 pill from Merck is effective against the virus, but they will seek input from outside experts on risks of birth defects and other potential problems during pregnancy.
Among the many people who didn’t cut their hair in 2020 because of COVID-19, San Marcos resident Peter Baen let his hair grow and grow. It grew to the point where people started offering to pay for his haircut. Out of those offers came an idea. Why not raise money for the Rotary Club of San Marcos by auctioning off the right to choose Baen’s new hair style?
My journey, looking toward Christmas, takes me to the Salvation Army’s iconic Red Kettles Campaign for Hays County. Each year we are given the opportunity to share our time and efforts in staffing one of the kettle locations. Ringing the bell as a volunteer is an investment not only to help those in need, but also in myself as a responsible adult — a “pay it forward” for the many blessings I have received.
Commander, Ortega, Reyna, Brown, Howard, Commander, Blanks and Martin
Galveston’s Moody Gardens pyramid and hotel. Photos by Bernadette Adams
Maurice T. Suttles VFW Post 3413 received 50 goody bags from HEB Store No. 2. Kayla Reyna and Rudy Ortega delivered the goody bags for “Operation Appreciation” to Commander Stephanie Brown and Quartermaster Aaron Brown for the post’s veterans on Veterans Day.
Keep a weather eye this season. You never know what kinds of birds you might see. Photo from Metro Creative
Around my place, a goldenfronted woodpecker is showing up to peck at a hanging suet block. But another bird watcher near me has reported a more unusual visitor.
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