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.
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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.
First Place winners are (in no order) Vicente Perez, Billy Rodgers, Lupe Carbajal and Todd Crosby.
Photo by LBJ Museum
Second place winners are (in no order) Randall Henry, Pedro Quintero, Jesse Sanchez and Jerry DeLeon.
Photo by LBJ Museum
Third place winners are (in no order) Randall Henry, Pedro Quintero, Jesse Sanchez and Jerry DeLeon.
Photo by LBJ Museum
The Lyndon Baines Johnson Museum of San Marcos celebrated the 20th Annual Ted Breihan Open Golf Tournament recently at the Kissing Tree Golf Club on April 21.
In 1994, a year before his death from alcohol-induced cirrhosis, hepatitis C and inoperable liver cancer, Mickey Mantle gave a remorseful interview to Sports Illustrated. The New York Yankees superstar center fielder and first-ballot Hall of Fame inductee recounted his life as an alcoholic with brutal candor. Mantle admitted that because of alcohol abuse, he ended up “killing himself.”
April is both Sexual Assault and Child Abuse Awareness month. The following article is the final article of a five-week series focusing on raising awareness about sexual assault and child abuse. Locally, HCWC served 660 community members that experienced sexual assault or abuse and 639 children at Roxanne’s House, our Children’s Advocacy Center.
“An allergy season so bad you don’t need allergies to feel miserable,” blared the headline in the Wall Street Journal. My own symptoms are relatively mild, but they do exist. I feel your pain. Especially if we get in a tug-of-war and you pull an entire Costco display of apocalypse-size Kleenex down on top of both of us.
Developed by the C.H. Page Brothers architect firm, The Comal Building was designed in the Classical Revival style with Mediterranean influences and built in 1918, originally doubling as the university’s Education Building and San Marcos High School. The building served as the community’s elementary school from 1937 to 1965.
Photos provided by Texas State University
The 17-foot-high Fighting Stallions sculpture was a 1951 gift from sculptor Anna Hyatt Huntington and husband Archer Huntington of South Carolina.
The Bobcat Statue in Memorial Garden.
Photos provided by Texas State University
HASM holds Historic Spring Tour with Texas State
San Marcos Academy closed the curtain on performances of their Spring Musical, “The Wizard of Oz” with a run of four shows from April 21 - 23 in the Robinson Christian Center. “It was a whole campus affair, from students in K-12th in the production,” said Eric Cassillas, Director of Development at SMA. Directed by Marlana Perry, the musical starred student actors Selah Portis as Dorothy Gale, Mia Garza as Toto, Athena Christensen as Aunt Em, Benjamin Pennington as Uncle Henry, Parrish Pacciponte as Zeke/Cowardly Lion, Zach Christensen as Hickory and the Tin Woodsman, Finley Mangaraja as Hunk/Scarecrow, Zorah Shinto as the Wicked Witch, and Brighton Koenig as Glinda.
Photos submitted by Eric Cassillas
San Marcos Academy stages spring musical ‘The Wizard of Oz’
DarkSky Texas board members Soll Sussman and Cindy Luongo Cassidy represent Hays County Friends of the Night Sky at the Dripping Springs Heritage Festival earlier this month.
Submitted photo
DarkSky Texas recently announced its new name along with a new initiative intended to reach more Texans about ways to improve outdoor lighting to benefit ourselves, the economy, and nature.
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