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Coronavirus Coverage
My Canyon Lake created this dedicated page to help local residents stay updated on the coronavirus outbreak in our area. We will focus on providing information about the local response to COVID-19 by localizing important data, getting answers from public officials and experts, and hearing your concerns as we go through this critical time together.
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Four New Braunfels residents have tested positive for COVID-19, Comal County said in a statement on Wednesday. Three of the cases are in their 40s and one is in their 50s. All are self-isolating. This ...
Canyon Lake High School’s Senior Awards Night posted to Youtube last week, honoring students in a “virtual video” for their academic merit, community service, excellence and perseverance in the classroom, and scholarships. Principal Kristy Castilleja ...
So far residents of Comal County nursing homes have avoided COVID-19, the county reported on Tuesday. In a statement, officials confirmed that 1,414 of the 1,465 residents tested last week by first responders were negative ...
“Are the Canyon Lake boat ramps open?” It’s the number-one question visitors (and more than a few locals) ask each week. May 26: Canyon Lake is 96.6-percent full at 907.42 feet. COVID-19 Updates All Comal ...
Comal County on Wednesday confirmed three new cases of COVID-19, for a total of 81. The cases are a Schertz resident in their 30s and two New Braunfels residents in their 30s and 40s. All ...
by Rep. Kyle Biedermann Texas House District 73/Canyon Lake The 87th Texas Legislative Session begins in January and I believe it will be one of the most difficult we’ve had in decades. Covid-19 is having ...
Comal County on Tuesday confirmed six new cases of COVID-19, for a total of 78. The cases are a Spring Branch-area resident in their 30s, a Bulverde-area resident in their 40s, two north-side Canyon Lake ...
Community Resource and Recreation Center of Canyon Lake (CRRC) has received a $25,000 grant from the San Antonio Area Foundation that it will use to support families directly impacted by COVID-19. Development Director Maureen Schein ...
National Safe Boating Week ends this Friday, just in time for Memorial Day, the official start to Canyon Lake’s summer boating season. Although this is the year for warning boaters about the importance of social ...
The League of Women Voters of the Comal Area (LWV-CA) says the coronavirus can’t separate its members from their core mission of empowering voters and defending democracy. The advocacy group met online on May 13 ...
Comal County reported its 72nd case of COVID-19 on Monday. The case is a resident from central Comal County in their 60s who is hospitalized in New Braunfels, the county said in a statement. With ...
Comal County reported on Monday that another resident from the north side of Canyon Lake tested positive for COVID-19. The person is self-isolating. Twelve people from north of Canyon Lake have now tested positive for ...
An employee at H-E-B’s store at 651 S. Walnut in New Braunfels has tested positive for COVID-19. In a statement on its website, H-E-B said the “partner” was last in its store on May 5. ...
Two new cases of COVID-19 were confirmed on the north side of Canyon Lake today, May 15, bringing the total number of cases there to 11. One of the individuals is in their 40s and ...
An infectious disease specialist who helped fight the spread of HIV in Africa as well as H1N1, West Nile, Zika and chikungunya will now lead Comal County’s efforts to stop coronavirus. Dr. Anikumar “Anil” Mangla ...
Community Resource and Recreation Center of Canyon Lake’s (CRRC) Recreation Center will reopen Monday without a full schedule posted and at only 25-percent capacity. Class sizes will be limited. New rules: All equipment must be ...
Comal County confirmed three new cases of COVID-19 on Monday. In a statement issued Tuesday, the Office of Public Health said all three individuals are in their 40s and are self-isolating at home. They live ...
Comal County started its work week with good news from the Office of Public Health: There were no new cases of COVID-19 reported over the weekend. With six deaths and 48 recoveries, the county has ...
Three new cases of COVID-19 have been confirmed on the north side of Canyon Lake. In a statement on Thursday, Comal County said two of the people live in the same household. The fourth case ...
Elections Coordinator Cynthia Jaqua told Comal County Commissioners Court on Thursday the Canyon Lake community will be happy to learn that early voting for the July primary runoff election will take place at the Community ...
by Cheryl Ursin, Features Editor On April 17, Comal County’s Office of Public Health hired its first full-time epidemiologist, Connie Alaniz, and is currently in the process of hiring a second. Here, Alaniz answered questions ...
While students remain home, Comal ISD nurses have been voluntarily staffing a COVID-19 triage call-center for area physicians. Today is National School Nurse Day, and Comal ISD is celebrating its 36 school nurses, who also ...
Joint Base San Antonio (JBSA)’s two Canyon Lake parks, Hancock Cove and Sunnyside, reopened on May 1. Porshe Devol, assistant manager lodging/office for JBSA Recreation Park at Canyon Lake, said there are no immediate plans ...
Canyon Lake boat ramps operated by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) reopened today just hours after the Corps announced it would begin a phased reopening of the recreation areas it closed due to ...
A resident in their 40s who lives on the north side of Canyon Lake is one of two new confirmed cases of COVID-19, Comal County said in a statement this morning. A New Braunfels resident ...
Tempers rose over the weekend as overcrowding and lack of social-distancing at boat ramps operated by Comal County — especially at boat ramps #1 and #5 — resulted in angry phone calls to law enforcement ...
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) is expected to announce on Wednesday, May 6 plans to begin a phased reopening of its Canyon Lake boat ramps, parks and camping facilities. Social distancing and other ...
Comal County on Monday confirmed its 59th case of COVID-19, a New Braunfels resident in their 20s who is self-isolating. In a statement on Tuesday, the county also confirmed a 42nd recovery and the discharge ...
Child nutrition professionals at Startzville and Mountain Valley elementary schools helped to prepare 121,518 meals for homebound students-in-need over the last five weeks of the COVID-19 pandemic. ‘Lunch ladies and men’ are considered essential frontline ...
Comal County on Monday confirmed two more residents have recovered from COVID-19. No new cases were reported over the weekend, it said in a press release issued today. This brings the total of number of ...
Comal County reported three new cases of COVID-19 on Friday, May 1 and said in a press release it will begin antibody testing through a third-party lab on Monday. Two of the residents are hospitalized ...
Comal County’s Office of Public Health on Thursday confirmed its 55th case of COVID-19, a Bulverde resident in their 40s who is self-isolating. With 36 recovered patients and six deaths, the county has 13 active ...
Comal County’s Office of Public Health confirmed two new cases of COVID-19 on Wednesday, bringing the total to 54. Both patients, who are in their 20s and 50s, live in New Braunfels and are self-isolating. ...
Comal County Judge Sherman Krause said on Wednesday he will follow Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s blueprint for reopening the state by allowing the county’s Stay Home/Stay Safe order to expire tomorrow, April 30. Area retail ...
Three more cases of COVID-19 were confirmed in Comal County on April 27, bringing the total number of cases reported to 52. The patients, who are in their 20s, 30s and 50s are from New ...
Comal ISD said today it has formalized plans for parents to recover their students’ school supplies, artwork, musical instruments, athletic gear and medications from campuses. “Our focus is on returning your child’s items in a ...
Comal County’s Office of Public Health on Thursday confirmed the recovery of one COVID-19 patient, bringing the total to 35, and zero new cases. With six deaths, seven cases remain active among county residents, two ...
Free COVID-19 testing is scheduled from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Thursday, April 30 at Canyon High School, 1510 I-35, New Braunfels, TX 78130. Registration opens on Tuesday, April 28. Some 50 to 60 tests ...
COVID-19 testing is now just a phone call away in Comal County. A drive-through testing center operated by private physicians, the county, City of New Braunfels and other agencies has opened its phone line to ...
A new Braunfels resident in their 40s is the 48th case of COVID-19 in Comal County. The patient is self-isolating, the county said in a press release issued on April 23. Wednesday’s Statistics As of ...
Two new cases of COVID-19 were reported in Comal County on Tuesday, April 22. Both patients live in households with previously confirmed cases of the illness. Both are new Braunfels residents in their 40s and ...
Students can now catch a virtual bus to Comal ISD classrooms. The district has equipped school buses with wireless network devices and parked them at seven strategic locations throughout the district’s 589 square miles to ...
Comal County confirmed two new COVID-19 cases Tuesday, both in households with two previously confirmed COVID-19 patients, but Precinct 4 (Canyon Lake area) Commissioner Jen Crownover said the trend is nonetheless positive. “These are the ...
Breaking news out of Comal County this afternoon: “The mulch is back!” On its Facebook page, the county said there were no new reports of COVID-19 over the weekend — “but there is one exciting ...
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With six deaths, the county now has 14 active COVID-19 cases, three of them hospitalized after a previously confirmed home-isolated case was admitted to the hospital.
Four New Braunfels Residents Test Positive for COVID-19 | My Canyon Lake
Four New Braunfels residents have tested positive for COVID-19, Comal County said in a statement on Wednesday bringing the total number of cases to 87.Principal Kristy Castilleja commended them for their grit during the COVID-19 outbreak, which forced them out of the classroom and into the digital realm during their last year in Comal ISD. “I want to recognize the loss that you as the class of 2020 has felt,” she said in the prerecorded video. “These are different and difficult times and you have endured quite a bit over these last couple months."
CLHS Students Honored Virtually, on Youtube, at Senior Awards Night | My Canyon Lake
CLHS' Senior Awards Night honored students online for their academic merit, community service, excellence, perseverance in the classroom and scholarshipsAre the Boat Ramps Open?
