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News stories and features about the people who call this area home. Our primary focus is serving readers with news in the unique towns of Canyon Lake, New Braunfels, and Gruene in the heart of the Texas Hill Country.
“Are the Canyon Lake boat ramps open?” It’s the number-one question visitors (and more than a few locals) ask each week. Boat Ramp #8 is closed Nov. 18. Boat Ramp #5 is closed due to ...
Current Conditions as of 10:10 a.m. Friday Guadalupe River @ Spring Branch (Upper): 16.8 cfs Guadalupe River @ Sattler (Lower): 65.8 cfs Guadalupe River @ New Braunfels: 91.1 cfs Canyon Lake Reservoir: 899.64 U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is ...
“Be aware!” Comal County Sheriff’s Office (CCSO) warns that scammers are posing as deputies and calling residents to demand payment for non-existing warrants and missed jury duty. Callers are using spoofed numbers but actual names ...
Thanks to Texas Parks & Wildlife, you can find everything you need to know about fishing conditions in Canyon Lake. GOOD. Water clear; 64 degrees; 9.31 feet low. Striped bass are becoming active biting on ...
Thursday Update from Comal County: Burn ban goes back into effect at 11 a.m. Saturday. Tuesday Update from Comal County: “Due to the recent precipitation in Comal County, Judge Sherman Krause has decided to lift ...
Canyon Lake’s shrinking due to drought, leaving many boat ramps unusable. Efforts are underway to fix serious problems that predate low lake levels. Many boat ramps are over 50 years old and were only intended ...
It’s official! Canyon Lake’s beloved Tye Preston Memorial Library (TPML) is now a designated Family Place Library. TPML Library Director Natalie Shults and Youth Services Librarian Betsey Leitko made the announcement at a Thursday meeting ...
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers today announced plans to replace Canyon Dam’s floodgate and warned stakeholders of lower release rates in the months ahead. Workers with the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) will work on the ...
A former Canyon Lake High School (CLHS) teacher was arrested Monday and charged with improper relationship between an educator/student. A source with immediate knowledge of the situation said Devon Hopper, 38, was arrested on campus ...
Bently Paiz, a 17-year-old New Braunfels high school graduate, will announce plans to take on incumbent Jason Hurta and run for New Braunfels City Council District 5 at today’s meeting of the Comal Young Democrats. ...
Undocumented criminal aliens and domestic violence are on the agenda for 8:30 a.m. Thursday at Commissioner Court. Under consideration for approval are a $51,000 grant to support the salary of Violence Against Women Victims Assistance ...
A panel of experts will discuss possible workarounds to promote “civilized and rational” growth in Comal County, one of the fastest growing areas in the United States, at noon Wednesday at Tye Preston Memorial Library, ...
Biggie’s back. Last week searchers located the missing 115-pound half-Great Pyrenees, half-Komondor therapy dog with curly white hair and a long bushy tail. Ten days had passed since he escaped his new home in Canyon ...
Comal County commissioners Thursday extended the current burn ban for another 90 days. Comal County’s Keetch-Byram Drought Index (KBDI) was 703 on Wednesday. The burn ban normally goes into effect when the KBDI reaches 500. ...
There were no election-day surprises in Comal County. According to unofficial results, Canyon Lake’s incumbent Pct. 4 Comal County Commissioner Jen Crownover, a Republican, was reelected for a third term with 95.29% of the vote, ...
Texas Parks and Wildlife Department (TPWD) says it will release 20,528 eight- to 11-inch rainbow trout from the A.E. Wood Fish Hatchery into the Guadalupe River just below Canyon Lake dam beginning in December. Guadalupe ...
Two Canyon Lake High School (CLHS) students today signed national letters of intent to play college sports. Track star Alencia Lentz signed with Baylor University for pole vaulting. Griffen Williams will play baseball for Blinn ...
An ongoing legal battle to prevent the nation’s largest producer of construction aggregates from turning a former Comal County ranch at FM 3009 and State Highway 46 into a 1,500-acre limestone quarry returns to Texas ...
Comal County commissioners are expected to extend the current burn ban for another 90 days at their weekly meeting Thursday. Comal is the only mostly red county on today’s Keetch-Byram Drought Index (KBDI) map, created ...
Development in unincorporated Comal County continues as commissioners are expected to approve a request to replat or subdivide a five–acre lot in front of Tye Preston Memorial Library (TPML) into four smaller lots. The agenda ...
Tuesday is Election Day for Comal County voters. Polling locations for the Nov. 8th General Election will be open from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. at 25 polling locations across Comal County. Residents can vote ...
Several events are planned in Canyon Lake this week to honor U.S. military veterans, especially the 14,000 who live in Comal County. Operation Green Light Comal County commissioners Thursday voted to turn the bell atop ...
Registration is underway for the 3rd Annual WOW 5K, sponsored by Sattler’s WOW Gym. Check-in for walkers and runners begins 7 a.m. Nov. 19 at Mountain Valley Middle School, 1165 Sattler Rd., Canyon Lake. The ...
Comal ISD’s new Supterintendent Dr. John Chapman will introduce himself to parents and guardians of Canyon Lake students at a Feeder Pattern Meeting from 9:30-11 a.m. Thursday at Canyon Lake High School, 8555 FM 32, ...
Some 40.9% of registered Comal County voters cast ballots in the Nov. 8 General Election as of Friday, when early voting ended. On Nov. 4 (Friday) 5,687 residents headed to the polls. According to other ...
Many Canyon Lake residents voted early at St. Francis by the Lake Episcopal Church and while they were there, many also cast their bids at the church’s charity fundraiser next door, a silent auction of ...
Canyon Lake photographer Jerry Sargent’s photograph, ‘Window on a Canyon Lake Sunset,’ placed third in the Hill Country Alliance’s (HCA) 2022 Hill Country Photo Contest. HCA announced the winners today. Sargent’s image will appear in ...
Early voting for the Nov. 8, 2022 General Election ends Friday. According to unofficial early-voting election information posted on the Texas Secretary of State’s website at 7 p.m. today, 39,089 Comal County residents have voted ...
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) will close its popular Overlook Park from Nov. 7 through Dec. 23. The entire day-use-only park will close, including areas for pedestrian and vehicle traffic. USACE Public Affairs ...
Fierce competition is expected Saturday as chili teams gather for the Backbone Chili Cook-Off at Devil’s Backbone Tavern, 4041 FM 32, Fischer. Teams will cook chili on-site and from scratch, and organizers hope the public ...
Volunteers scoured the area around Summit Vacation & Resort near Canyon Lake today looking for ‘Biggie,’ a 115-pound white, shaggy therapy dog who escaped from his new home Oct. 25. The missing dog is half ...
by Joshua Humerickhouse General Manager, House of CBD, Canyon Lake NEW HOURS!!! Effective Tuesday, Nov. 8, we will be open Tuesday through Sunday 9 a.m. – 7 p.m. We will return to our normal hours ...
Close to 20,000 Comal County residents showed up at the polls during the first four days of early voting. Some 4,232 people voted Thursday. Mail-in ballots received totaled 269. Friday’s numbers are not available. Early ...
Injured and sick wildlife are the reason Wildlife Rescue & Rehabilitation’s (WRR) 24-hour hotline exists. The Kendalia rescue is the authoritative source for people in unincorporated Comal County who panic when they see an animal ...
A 58-year-old Spring Branch man arrested Friday by New Braunfels police for sex trafficking a juvenile victim was arrested again today by U.S. Marshals for allegedly sex trafficking a second teen. Marc Stephen Jamison was ...
Volunteers are needed for Keep Canyon Lake Beautiful’s annual Post Halloween Cleanup in Sattler from 9 to 11 a.m. Monday. Meet at the Water Oriented Recreation District (WORD) office in Sattler/Canyon Lake, 1928 FM 2673 ...
Tickets are still available for Yoga in the Gorge’s Nov. 13 and Nov. 20 classes. Kelly Beck and instructors from The Village Studio will lead participants in a 45-minute class. The $5 registration fee includes ...
Comal County Republican Party Chair Sue Piner isn’t worried about election integrity during early voting. “Since Comal is over 70% red and all but one of our voting locations is run by a Republican election ...
New Braunfels resident Kaitlin Tanke, 33, was nursing her newborn daughter two years ago when she noticed a suspicious lump in her breast. Ten months later a scan and exam revealed incurable metastatic breast cancer. ...
Canyon Lake is rocky, hilly, divided by a lake, spread out and (so far) lacking cookie-cutter subdivisions that make it easy for trick-or-treaters to score bucketfuls of candy on Halloween. However that same terrain creates ...
Comal County’s Fire Marshal said the Keetch-Byram Drought Index (KBDI) reached 722 today, 222 points higher than the 500-point threshold needed to trigger a burn ban. To make the situation even worse, the Canyon Lake ...
The 2022 Canyon Lake Noon Lions Fall Shrimpfest is scheduled from 10:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Saturday at the CRRC Rec Center, 125 Mabel Jones Dr. The public can either ‘dine in’ or ‘drive thru’ ...
Canyon Lake Guadalupe Trail and Stilling Basin parking lots closed today for maintenance work and will not reopen until Nov. 21, although that date is not firm. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Canyon Lake Manager ...
In 2017 U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) Natural Resource Specialist Samuell Price noticed a clump of vegetation at Cranes Mill Park while he was inspecting the fishing pier. The water plant was growing around ...
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