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Six months after the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) closed Canyon Lake Dam’s service road to pedestrian traffic, there’s still no price tag or timeline for reopening the most popular tourist spot in the ...
You could head to the outlet mall in San Marcos on Black Friday — or focus on spending the time between Thanksgiving and Christmas turkeys enjoying the fun, holiday stuff that’s unique to the Canyon ...
by HilltopNewsPaper.com Canyon Lake begins the post-season schedule with a game with the Needville Blue Jays tonight in Cuero’s Gobbler Stadium. The Hawks have reached the Playoffs now in eight of their 11 years of ...
Canyon Lake anglers will have plenty of cool-weather fishing opportunities to look forward to in the coming months. Starting Nov. 30 and ending at the beginning of March, the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department will ...
November is rut season — the breeding period — for the omnipresent whitetail deer in Canyon Lake. Watch out for them in your neighborhood and on the roads! Although establishing precise dates for the rut ...
A school bus carrying Hoffman Elementary fifth-graders to a much-anticipated science field trip at Canyon Lake Gorge on Oct. 30 also drove through a red ribbon as part of a special ribbon-cutting ceremony for a ...
Canyon Lake’s largest, free community Thanksgiving Dinner is scheduled from 5:30 to 7 p.m. Thursday at Startzville Elementary, 42111 FM 3159. Last year, over 800 residents enjoyed the annual fall tradition, which is open to anyone ...
Talk about timing for Canyon Lake. Hill Country Alliance co-sponsors Texas Water Symposium, 6:30 p.m. Thursday at Texas State University’s Student Center LBJ Teaching Theater in San Marcos. The event is free and open to ...
One hundred percent of all Mountain Valley Middle School (MVMS) teachers and staff signed up for the PTA this year, earning the school a Golden Apple award. Principal Dustin Davisson accepted the honor on behalf ...
There’s still time to Raise the Woof for Canine Classmates’ Fundraiser & Build Contest. Registration deadline has been extended to Monday, Nov. 12. Participants are invited to design and build a dog house, cat condo or ...
Leave leftovers behind and head to Fischer Christmas Market from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Nov. 23 and Nov. 24. Georgeanne Groesbeck, daughter of Charlene Fischer and granddaughter of Eddie and Gertrude, said Fischer Store, 4040 ...
Election results may be in, but the anger and incivility that plague most political discussions is still out there. The League of Women Voters of the Comal Area (LWV-CA) says it’s time to stop arguing ...
Jaynellen Kerr was sitting in her office at the recreation center across from Canyon Lake Dam in July 2002, when word quickly spread that water had begun surging across the overflow spillway after a week ...
There were no surprises in Tuesday’s midterm elections in heavily Republican Comal County. Democratic challenger Dorothy Carroll failed to unseat Republican incumbent Jen Crownover, Comal County Commissioner, Pct. 4, who won with 78.26-percent of the ...
Comal County Clerk’s Office says hundreds of thousands of land records and plats are now available online. All official public records (OPR) dating to the establishment of Comal County in 1846 can be previewed and ...
A “teacherage” built in 1870 at the confluence of the Guadalupe River and Jacobs Creek in Sattler was recognized as a Texas Historic Landmark at a marker dedication on Sunday. The ceremony was sponsored by ...
Texas Parks and Wildlife Department (TPWD) biologists do not expect to see a negative impact on fish populations in Hill Country rivers as a direct result of recent flooding, but the long-term outlook depends on ...
Parishioners who attended mass at St. Thomas the Apostle Catholic Church in Canyon Lake on Sunday learned they will soon have a new parish priest following the abrupt dismissal of Rev. Edward Pavlicek on Oct. ...
The release rate from Canyon Reservoir dropped to 800 cubic feet per second (cfs) after Guadalupe-Blanco River Authority took over management of water releases from Canyon Dam at 11 a.m. today. The water level in ...
The second week of early voting has begun, and turnout remains at record levels for a midterm election. So far, Comal County residents are voting at about the same rate as 2016 – and have ...
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) reduced water releases to approximately 2,000 cubic feet per second (cfs) on Monday due to Canyon Lake’s declining elevation, Guadalupe-Blanco River Authority (GBRA) announced on its website. Due ...
Car enthusiasts helped raise $12,500 at the Dam Fine Car Show atop Canyon Dam last Sunday, moving the Dam Community Alliance closer to its goal of raising $100,000 in funds needed to reopen Canyon Lake ...
The Comal County Tax Office began mailing out 2018 property tax statements on Friday. The statements detail the taxes property owners owe based on property value determined by the Comal Appraisal District, as well as ...
Canyon Lake resident Gary McFarland spent over 40 years of his life bruising his knees on rear-mount trailer hitches protruding from the back of pickup trucks. These accidents were hard to avoid when he worked ...
Community Resource and Recreation Center of Canyon Lake (CRRC) desperately needs toilet paper and used plastic grocery bags for its Food Pantry. Maureen Schein said the food pantry team is running low on these items ...
Presidential-year election turnout always exceeds midterm turnout – but maybe not this year in Comal County. According to Comal County election officials, on Monday and Tuesday more than 10,000 in-person votes were cast — an ...
Environmental activist groups want voters to know where state and local candidates stand on issues affecting Comal County, and last week published a voter guide and candidate responses on stop3009vulcanquarry.com, a website opposing Vulcan Materials’ ...
Suicide rates among teenagers in Comal County vary between one to three per year, but when New Braunfels-based Communities in Schools implemented a Signs of Suicide program last year, the group was inundated with students ...
Statistics indicate that four children per Comal ISD elementary classroom may present characteristics of dyslexia. Receiving a diagnosis of dyslexia can be daunting for both parent and child, but tonight Comal ISD highlights success stories ...
Early voting for the Nov. 6 midterm elections begins Monday, Oct. 22 at locations throughout Comal County, County Elections Coordinator Cynthia Jacqua announced in a press release today. Registered voters in Comal County can cast ...
If you’re expecting fireworks at tonight’s candidate forum tonight at 6 p.m. at Tye Preston Memorial Library, 16311 S. Access Rd., Canyon Lake, think again. Unlike last night’s verbal firefight between Sen. Ted Cruz and ...
Canyon Reservoir has reached its maximum conservation pool and is currently at 910.95 mean sea level (msl), triggering the necessity of increased water releases at the direction of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), ...
Canyon Lake Water Service Company (CLWSC) yesterday ended Stage 1 water restrictions on Monday. The company made the announcement yesterday on its website. Water restrictons were enacted on July 4 during the long summer drought. ...
More than one supreme court made the news last week. The Texas Supreme Court on Friday denied a petition for review filed by Stop the Ordinances Please Association (STOP) to overturn New Braunfels’ disposable container ...
Startzville Elementary is located exactly halfway between Bulverde and Tye Preston Memorial libraries, which makes walking or biking to either impossible for little legs. Kimberly Nance, Startzville librarian, decided to make it easier for her ...
Canyon Lake Republican Women raised over $13,000 at their 26th Annual Fish Fry on Sept. 22 at CRRC’s Rec Center on Mabel Jones Dr. The fundraiser supports outreach efforts like purchasing dictionaries for third-graders at ...
Residents who oppose Vulcan Materials’ proposed 1,500-acre open-pit limestone quarry at FM 3009 and SH-46 have until Oct. 15 to submit their requests to be named affected parties eligible to protest the project at contested-case ...
The Rev. Chad Aaron Lawson will be officially installed as pastor of Canyon Lake Presbyterian Church at special ceremony at 4 p.m. Sunday. Officials from Mission Presbytery, the regional governing body of the Presbyterian Church ...
Long before Google there was Roxanna Deane, library director at Tye Preston Memorial Library (TPML). Back in 1968, she shared a six-tiered, book-laden lazy susan with eight other librarians clustered around the Telephone Reference Division ...
Darin Zumwalt, executive director of CRRC of Canyon Lake, says construction is now underway for a new building. Many locals have noticed the construction fencing that went up on the empty lot next to the ...
It’s not something you want to think about when you’re out on Canyon Lake or floating down the Guadalupe River, but bacteria levels on Texas beaches and waterways — also known as water-contaminated fecal material ...
Canyon Lake High School’s athletics program soared to greater glory last school year with every sport making it to playoffs or championships for the first time ever. Canyon Lake Athletic Booster Club is gearing up ...
Canyon Lake Presbyterian Church bills itself as “the little church with a big heart” but its ministry now extends to the minds of area residents. Three weeks ago, non-profit Hill Country Mental Health and Developmental ...
Kay Hoffman was active in New Braunfels Quilt Guild. After she died in 2007, her husband didn’t know what to do with some of the blocks of an unfinished quilt and asked the Quilt Bee ...
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