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Two Comal ISD educators afraid of losing their jobs if they criticized the district publicly sent a retired physician and a spouse to Commissioners Court in their place on Thursday to warn against reopening district ...
Comal County reported its lowest level of COVID-19 spread since the end of June today, averaging just under 60 new cases per day. In a statement, the county also confirmed two new COVID-19 deaths and ...
Five Comal ISD schools located in Bexar County will now reopen to on-campus instruction on Aug. 25 along with all other schools in Comal County, Supt. Andrew Kim told parents in an email yesterday. Kim’s ...
Comal County reported 89 new cases of COVID-19 today but its positivity rate declined three points to 16.37 percent after including tests by CVS pharmacies. In a statement, the county said four of the 89 ...
A New Braunfels man in his 70s with underlying medical conditions died Friday in a New Braunfels hospital, Comal County’s 45th death from COVID-19. In a statement today, the county also reported 88 new cases ...
A man in his 90s who lived at the Heights of Bulverde died in a San Antonio hospital of COVID-19 on Wednesday, the 44th death in Comal County so far and the ninth death of ...
Comal County reported 27 new cases of COVID-19 today, its smallest daily increase since June 19. Cheryl Fraser, Comal County director of public health, said it’s too soon to tell whether today’s numbers are an ...
Five more south side Canyon Lake residents tested positive for COVID-19, Comal County said in a press release today. The county added another 52 cases and reported six new COVID-19 deaths. Comal County’s positivity rate ...
Enrollment begins Tuesday for all returning Comal ISD students. New student enrollment opens July 28. The open-enrollment process is online only. The district is using a new parent portal called Skyward, which provides parents with ...
Canyon Lake parks are overflowing with trash left behind by record numbers of tourists surging into the area in search of someplace safe, sunny and scenic to escape COVID-19 restrictions. Below the water, things are ...
Comal ISD Supt. Andrew Kim emailed parents yesterday to let them know he is upset with Bexar County’s decision to keep its schools closed until Sept. 7. Five Comal ISD campuses are located in Bexar ...
Two women in their 90s with underlying health conditions died in Comal County long-term residential facilities this week, Comal County said in a statement today. The deaths are the eighth at the Heights of Bulverde ...
Comal County confirmed five new deaths and 90 new cases of COVID-19 today. Four of those who died lived in long-term residential care facilities. The fifth, a man in his 60s from New Braunfels who ...
Forty-six new cases of COVID-19 were reported in Comal County today. There are now 1,468 cases confirmed, the county said in a statement. Of the new cases, 40 are confirmed and six are probable; 42 ...
Comal County Fair Association (CCFA) President Charles Wimberley said the board is canceling the 2020 Comal County Fair and Rodeo, scheduled from Sept. 23-27. “Much thought and discussion have occurred these past several months as ...
Unofficial results posted to mycomalcounty.com show that 10,371 registered Comal County voters showed up at the polls yesterday for the Texas primary runoff elections. They represent 9.57-percent of the county’s 108,352 registered voters. No issues ...
Comal ISD students will spend an extra 10 minutes at school this fall, giving the district four more days to work with if COVID-19 closes campuses. The new hours affect all grade levels, the district ...
Another nursing home resident has died of COVID-19, Comal County said today. In a statement, the county also reported 73 new cases of the disease for a total of 1,422. There are now 30 deaths ...
No new deaths from COVID-19 were reported by Comal County today but 67 more people have tested positive for the virus, many of them young adults and including an infant, bringing the total to 1,349. ...
Comal County said six residents, five of them elderly, died over the weekend, bringing the total of COVD-19-related deaths in the county to 29. A seventh resident, a man in his 80s who lived at ...
A woman in her 90s who lived at Kirkwood Manor in New Braunfels is Comal County’s 22nd death related to COVID-19. The patient, who had underlying medical conditions, died Friday at the nursing-and-rehabilitation facility. In ...
Comal County confirmed three new deaths related to COVID-19 today, two of them residents of area nursing homes, and said it is creating a resource center to help nursing homes deal with the growing crisis. ...
Comal ISD will launch an online forum next week to help parents decide between on-campus instruction or remote learning for the upcoming school year. In an email today, Supt. Andrew Kim said the district will ...
COVID-19 tightened its grip on Comal County this week with six deaths and 103 new cases confirmed today. Five of those who died lived at the Heights of Bulverde nursing home. The sixth, a man ...
Neighboring Guadalupe County confirmed 44 new cases of COVID-19 today and said there are at least 43 patients hospitalized with the virus at Guadalupe Regional Medical Center (GRMC) in Seguin. Not all of these patients ...
Comal County’s COVID-19 case count jumped to 989 this morning, with 82 new and confirmed cases reported on Tuesday. That number is expected to rise as Office of Public Health, which has been short-staffed since ...
Comal ISD Supt. Andrew Kim said today the University Interscholastic League (UIL) is canceling summer workouts, rehearsals, practices and instruction scheduled between July 3-12 over concerns that increased social interactions over the July 4 holiday ...
All Canyon Lake parks, boat ramps and outdoor recreation facilities are open for the July 4 holiday weekend. Tubing services cannot rent tubes but visitors can bring their own then pay to park and access ...
A hospitalized New Braunfels man in his 70s with a confirmed case of COVID-19 and underlying medical conditions died over the weekend, Comal County’s Office of Public Health said today. The county also confirmed 124 ...
Citing an alarming rise in COVID-19 cases, Comal County Judge Sherman Krause today signed an “unwelcome” order requiring all businesses in the county to develop safety plans that include wearing of face coverings for all ...
Comal County on Tuesday reported 56 new confirmed and probable cases of COVID-19 for a total of 654, bringing its positivity rate to 10.28 percent. Of the 56 cases, 55 are confirmed and one is ...
COVID-19 hasn’t canceled early voting in Comal County, which began Monday for the July 14 primary election runoffs. The Comal County Elections Office is providing hand sanitizer, disposable styluses and finger coverings for voters; sanitize ...
The Lodge at Turkey Cove has canceled its annual Fourth of July fireworks show, leaving Canyon Lake without any options for official celebrations. On Sunday, it confirmed the recent spike in COVID-19 cases left it ...
Comal County today, June 27, reported 46 new confirmed and probable cases of COVID-19, for a total of 598. Its positivity rate – the percentage of tests with a positive result – is now 9.72%, ...
Hays County on Friday expanded an order it issued just days ago to include a ban on outdoor gatherings of more than 100 people in unincorporated parts of the county. Hays County Judge Ruben Becerra’s ...
New Braunfels closed its river parks along the Comal and Guadalupe rivers today and postponed the city’s Fourth of July fireworks display in Landa Park. The closures only affect areas inside city limits. The announcement ...
Gov. Greg Abbott closed bars and tubing outfitters in an executive order this morning, but Canyon Lake’s county-operated boat ramps and parks will remain open. Comal County Judge Sherman Krause has not ordered any further ...
Comal County on Friday reported 48 new confirmed and probable cases of COVID-19. This brings the total number of cases in the county to 552, the county said in a statement. Comal County’s positivity rate ...
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) pleaded with the public today to help keep its 25 lake projects — including Canyon Lake — safe and trash-free. Without recreationalists’ cooperation, USACE’s Tim Miller, Forth Worth chief ...
Comal County’s Office of Public Health said in a statement today it is working to support The Heights of Bulverde, a nursing home specializing in assisted living, which has 23 COVID-19 cases. Eleven of the ...
As thousands of extra visitors surge into Canyon Lake this summer, leaving so much trash behind that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) is warning it may have to close more parks or trails, ...
Canyon Lake non-profit Operation Float a Soldier (OFAS), which provides boating, jet ski and fishing-and-lake activities for thousands of active and retired military personnel injured in the line of duty or suffering from post-traumatic stress ...
Comal County on Wednesday reported 52 new confirmed and probable cases of COVID-19 for a total of 471 and a positivity rate of 8.65 percent. Of the 52 cases, 42 are confirmed and 10 are ...
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