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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 ...
Comal ISD Board of Trustees President David Drastata apologized tonight for calling COVID-19 the ‘China virus’ in an Aug. 17 email to Canyon Athletic Booster Club parents. The apology was posted to the club’s website ...
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 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 clarified all things COVID-19 on Friday, posting an addendum to the Student-Parent Handbook 2020-21 on its website. Salwa Lanford, a communications specialist for the district, said the document recaps district policies and procedures ...
Comal County added five new and three probable cases of COVID-19 on Monday, but its positivity rate fell slightly, to 15.59 percent from 15.67 percent on Friday. Of the eight new cases, five are confirmed ...
Comal ISD’s COVID-19 Active Case Management dashboard went live on Aug. 10. MyCanyonLake.com will provide daily updates for parents. Unlike Comal County’s COVID-19 dashboard, this page only reflects current cases and no date-range is provided. DISTRICTWIDE AS ...
Comal County parents can now track COVID-19 cases in area child care facilities. On Thursday, Texas Health and Human Services Began posted a spreadsheet showing self-reported COVID-19 cases in licensed child care centers, school-age programs, ...
Tubers who are paying higher prices just to park along the Guadalupe River in Canyon Lake won’t have any better luck over in San Marcos, where river parks remain closed, along with Blanco Shoals Natural ...
COVID-19 claimed the lives of two more Comal County seniors earlier this month, the county said in a statement today. Another nine county residents tested positive. Comal County’s positivity rate is now 15.67%, a slight increase ...
Comal ISD’s COVID-19 Active Case Management dashboard went live on Aug. 10. MyCanyonLake.com will provide daily updates for parents. Unlike Comal County’s COVID-19 dashboard, this page only reflects current cases and no date-range is provided. DISTRICTWIDE AS ...
Comal ISD’s COVID-19 Active Case Management dashboard went live on Aug. 10. MyCanyonLake.com will provide daily updates for parents. Unlike Comal County’s COVID-19 dashboard, this page only reflects current cases and no date-range is provided. DISTRICTWIDE AS ...
Comal County’s COVID-19 death toll rose by five today after the Office of Public Health confirmed reports from area nursing homes. Deaths reported to the county on Aug. 17 include: A man in his 90s ...
On Friday, Comal ISD was forced to clarify its mask policy on Facebook after a series of videos it shared online confused parents about the ABCs of COVID-19 prevention. “To clarify, students will not be ...
Comal County reported 72 new cases of COVID-19 on Monday, Aug. 17, four of them in residents who live south of Canyon Lake and five who live north of the lake. The county’s positivity rate, ...
Comal ISD’s COVID-19 Active Case Management dashboard went live on Aug. 10. MyCanyonLake.com will provide daily updates for parents. Unlike Comal County’s COVID-19 dashboard, this page only reflects current cases and no date-range is provided. ...
Comal County reported 59 new cases of COVID-19 today, and its positivity rate — the percentage of tests with a positive result –also rose to 15.75-percent, up from 15.49-percent on Thursday. Two of the residents ...
Texas Education Agency is providing Comal ISD with disposable masks and other personal protection equipment (PPE) for the upcoming school year. Comal ISD Executive Director of Communications Steve Stanford confirmed on Tuesday that the Texas ...
Comal County reported one new COVID-19 death, 17 new cases and a slight increase in its positivity rate today. A New Braunfels man in his 70s died at Colonial Manor in New Braunfels on Wednesday, ...
Comal County’s COVID-19 case count rose by 82 today, and the positivity rate — the percentage of tests with a positive result — also increased from 15.05 percent on Tuesday to 15.44. Of the new ...
COVID-19 didn’t cancel the Fourth Annual Family Fest at the CRRC’s Rec Center. There won’t be dozens of vendors, health professionals and stylists waiting to provide free back-to-schools services for Canyon Lake school kids. Or ...
A Canyon Lake woman in her 80s died in a San Antonio hospital on Aug. 3 of COVID-19. In a statement today, Comal County’s Office of Public Health also confirmed eight other deaths related to ...
Comal ISD Executive Director of Communications Steve Stanford confirmed today that a Canyon High School student who attended band camp on Thursday, Aug. 6 has tested positive for COVID-19. The student is ‘self-isolating’ and band ...
A New Braunfels woman in her 50s and a Colonial Manor nursing home resident in his 60s died in New Braunfels hospitals of COVID-19 on Aug. 6. In a statement issued today, Comal County also ...
Comal County’s Office of Public Health (OPH) reminds parents now is the time to vaccinate children who will be returning to school later this month. OPH offers back-to-school vaccines as well as a wide range ...
Comal County added 46 new cases of COVID-19 on Friday, four of them in Canyon Lake, for a total of 2,359. The county ‘s positivity rate is now 15.48%, up from 15.24% on Thursday and ...
A San Antonio judge today granted a temporary restraining order (TRO) that prevents Living Health Holistic Healing Center in New Braunfels from marketing and selling unapproved COVID-19 test kits. A hearing is scheduled for 9 ...
Comal County reported 26 new cases of COVID-19 today but its positivity rate is down to 15.24-percent, a significant drop from the 16.60-percent reported on Wednesday. There are now 424 confirmed and probable cases in ...
Parents of Comal ISD students must decide by Aug. 11 whether to send their children back to schools on Aug. 25 or opt for online education. The district opened its Instructional Delivery Option (IDO) through ...
Mountain Valley Middle School’s Boys Speed and Strength Camp kicks off next week. The camp is voluntary. Students must have a physical on file or bring one with them on the first day of camp. ...
A New Braunfels woman in her 60s died of COVID-19 on Monday after she discharged herself from a New Braunfels hospital. In a statement on Wednesday, Comal County said hers is the 60th death from ...
by Olivia Weisinger and Shannon Drichta Comal ISD parents (Editor’s note: Co-author Olivia Weisinger served on Comal ISD’s Student Health Advisory Committee for the 2019-20 school year. Her business, Rev Up Recess, designs functional play ...
Comal County reported three deaths and 74 new cases of COVID-19 on Tuesday, 17 of them in residents younger than 30. Its positivity rate – the percentage of tests with a positive result – is ...
Comal County today confirmed two more deaths related to COVID-19, and 13 new cases of the virus in county residents. A man in his 70s from Kirkwood Manor died at the facility on July 25. ...
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