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A group of Comal County residents petitioned Commissioners Court on Thursday, asking that face masks be required for county employees working in the elections office and at voting polls. According to their petition, poll workers, ...
Comal County made it clear today that it stands behind Elections Coordinator Cynthia Jaqua, who refuses to wear a mask during training for volunteer poll workers and does not practice safe social distancing. Comal County ...
Comal County reported 35 additional cases of COVID-19 today but said 13 of them are “backlogged” cases that weren’t counted before. Of the 22 new cases, 19 are confirmed and three are probable. The seven-day ...
Just days after a Comal County election judge walked out of a mandatory training session because Comal County Elections Coordinator Cynthia Jaqua refused to wear a mask, election clerks arrived to find their instructor standing ...
Comal County reported 49 additional cases of COVID-19 today but said only 11 of those cases are new. The additional 38 cases were “backlogged,” the county said in a statement. The county now has 235 ...
Texas Sen. Donna Campbell today denied any involvement in a lawsuit filed by prominent state Republicans challenging Republican Gov. Gregg Abbott’s decision to add six days to the early voting period in October. Campbell, a ...
Comal County’s positivity rate stands at 9.35% today after 12 new COVID-19 cases were confirmed by the Office of Public Health. Of the new cases, six are confirmed and six are probable. There are 225 ...
The Comal County employee charged with teaching poll workers how to keep voters safe from COVID-19 during the Nov. 3 General Election refuses to wear face masks at her training sessions. Elections Coordinator Cynthia Jaqua, ...
Comal County confirmed 53 new cases of COVID-19 today, and its seven-day positivity rate jumped to 7.27%. The majority of these cases — 32 — are reported in New Braunfels-area residents, the county said in ...
The Community Resource and Recreation Center of Canyon Lake (CRRC) reopened its doors today, both at its main headquarters on FM 2673 and at the Rec Center on Mabel Jones Drive. The facilities closed late ...
Comal County confirmed 16 new cases of COVID-19 today, eight of them in residents under the age of 30. Six of the new cases are confirmed and 10 are probable. The county now has 299 ...
A man in his 30s who lived in New Braunfels died at home of COVID-19, Comal County confirmed today. No further information is available. The total number of deceased is now 116. The county also ...
Comal County confirmed 10 new cases of COVID-19 today for a total of 313 active, confired-and-probable COVID-19 cases. Of the new cases, nine are confirmed and one is probable. Of 313 active cases, 18 are ...
Parents of Mountain Valley Elementary School (MVES) students received another email from Principal Andrea Patrick today warning that two members of the “campus community” experienced symptoms of COVID-19 while in the building and Startzville Elementary ...
The Community Resource and Recreation Center of Canyon Lake (CRRC) abruptly closed its administrative building, Food Pantry and Rec Center today after “a possible COVID exposure.” These facilities are closed until further notice. The popular ...
Comal County today reported 25 confirmed and nine probable new cases of COVID-19. The seven-day positivity rate is 6.76%. Tuesday’s positivity rate was 5.6%. Location Breakdown New Braunfels – 22 North of Canyon Lake – ...
Comal County said today that a Spring Branch man in his 80s died of COVID-19 at a San Antonio hospital, bringing the total number of virus-related deaths to 115. No date was provided in a ...
Mountain Valley Elementary School emailed parents and guardians today informing them of a lab-confirmed positive case of COVID-19. The school said it cannot divulge identifiable information about the member of its campus community who tested ...
Canyon Lake High School sent an email to parents today alerting them that another three members of its campus community tested positive for COVID-19, but said it believes any spread was mitigated through social distancing ...
Comal County reported 63 new cases of COVID-19 today but said only 27 of those are new. Texas Department of State Health Services (TDSHS) sent a large set of backlog cases, the county said in ...
Comal County reported 12 new cases of COVID-19 on Friday, two of them confirmed and 10 probable. The seven-day positivity rate for Friday is 9.50 percent. Five of the new cases are New Braunfels residents, ...
A New Braunfels man in his 70s died from COVID-19 in a San Antonio hospital on Aug. 30, Comal County said in a statement today. The county also reported 12 new confirmed cases of COVID-19. ...
New Braunfels reopened its river parks on Wednesday but the public should wear masks and observe rules for social distancing and hand washing. Gov. Greg Abbott’s June 26 orders banning river outfitters from renting tubes ...
Comal ISD reported 17 current positive cases, 110 symptomatic cases and 104 “exposures” to positive cases of COVID-19 on its dashboard today. DISTRICTWIDE AS OF SEPT. 4: Current positive cases, district-wide: 17 Current symptomatic cases, ...
Comal County reported 45 new cases of COVID-19 and two deaths today. In a statement, the county said a woman in her 70s from New Braunfels died in a New Braunfels hospital on Aug. 26. ...
Comal County reported 21 new cases of COVID-19 on Friday. The seven-day positivity stands at 11.19%. Of the new cases, 20 are confirmed and one is probable. Twenty of the cases were reported in New ...
Comal ISD reported 11 current positive cases, 130 symptomatic cases and 83 “exposures” to positive cases of COVID-19 on its dashboard Friday. There are now three active cases of coronavirus in Support Services staff. Two ...
There are now 12 positive cases of the virus in Comal ISD’s “campus communities,” according to the district’s COVID-19 Active Management dashboard. Today, the district reported 12 “current positive cases district-wise,” 118 “current symptomatic cases ...
Comal County announced 24 more COVID-19 deaths today but blamed the sudden increase on underreporting. The county now has 290 active confirmed and probable COVID-19 cases. The seven day positivity rate for Thursday is 16.27%. ...
Comal County reported 19 new cases of COVID-19 today. Thirteen are confirmed and six are probable. Fourteen of the residents who tested positive live in New Braunfels, one lives in the Garden Ridge area, three ...
Mountain Valley Elementary School informed parents today that someone on campus was in close contact with a person who tested positive for COVID-19. The email did not divulge any further information. Comal ISD does not ...
Mountain Valley Elementary School said in an email to parents today that three members of its “campus community” experienced COVID-19 symptoms while in the building and were isolated before leaving campus. Pieper Ranch Middle School ...
Comal County’s COVID-19 case count rose to 3,005 today after the Office of Public Health reported 36 new cases. In a statement, the county also said it will no longer report the daily positivity rate, ...
Mountain Valley Elementary School parents were notified on Monday that two members of the “campus community” experienced symptoms of COVID-19 while in the building and left school. In an email, Principal Andrea Patrick said Comal ...
Comal County confirmed two new deaths related to COVID-19 today, for a total of 87, and reported 24 new cases of the disease. Public Health also announced a new metric for reporting the positivity rate, ...
Comal Independent School District’s (Comal ISD) Canyon High School (CHS) notified faculty and staff this morning that a member of its “campus community” tested positive for COVID-19. In an email, administrators said no further details ...
Comal County reported 37 new cases of COVID-19 today, four of them in Canyon Lake. The positivity rate is now 14.87%, a slight increase from Thursday’s rate of 14.75%. Of the 37 new cases, 31 ...
Comal ISD’s COVID-19 Active Case Management dashboard went live on Aug. 10. MyCanyonLake.com will provide daily updates for parents and guardians. Unlike Comal County’s COVID-19 dashboard, this page only reflects current cases and no date-range is provided. ...
Comal ISD’s Bill Brown Elementary School emailed parents Thursday that three more members of its “campus community” experienced COVID-19 symptoms while in the building and were isolated until they could leave the campus. It’s the ...
Four residents of the Colonial Manner Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in New Braunfels died of COVID-19 between Aug. 5 and Aug. 15, Comal County said in a statement today. The death of two females in ...
Comal ISD’s COVID-19 Active Case Management dashboard went live on Aug. 10. MyCanyonLake.com will provide daily updates for parents and guardians. Unlike Comal County’s COVID-19 dashboard, this page only reflects current cases and no date-range is provided. ...
Within two days of reopening on Aug. 25, seven Comal ISD school principals emailed parents to warn them their children might have been exposed to COVID-19. The emails do not disclose whether the individuals who ...
Comal County reported only six new cases of COVID-19 today, three of them in individuals under the age of 20. Four of them are confirmed and two are probable. Four of the residents who contracted ...
Morena Hockley’s two sons play on Canyon High School’s (CHS) soccer team but she doesn’t belong to Canyon Athletic Booster Club and didn’t see an Aug. 17 email from president David Drastata warning parents that ...