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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 ...
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 ...
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. ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has reappointed Comal Independent School District (Comal ISD) Superintendent Andrew Kim to the Texas School Safety Center’s (TxSSC) board of directors. The board reports to the governor, the legislature, the State ...
Comal Independent School District will offer free curbside meals for all children, ages 18 and younger, at five campuses through June. The grab-and-go curbside meal distribution program has a few changes. • Distribution time: 11:30 ...
By Comal ISD Supt. Andrew Kim Unless you were looking at the school calendar, you probably didn’t notice that today is the official last day of the 2019-20 school year. Typically this day is marked ...
Canyon Lake High School’s Senior Awards Night posted to Youtube last week, honoring students in a “virtual video” for their academic merit, community service, excellence and perseverance in the classroom, and scholarships. Principal Kristy Castilleja ...
by Rep. Kyle Biedermann Texas House District 73/Canyon Lake The 87th Texas Legislative Session begins in January and I believe it will be one of the most difficult we’ve had in decades. Covid-19 is having ...
Canyon High School students Ana Fuentes and Jessie Ortega Jr. are recipients of the 2020 Robbi and Dan Boone scholarships. The $1,000 scholarships, awarded by the Democratic Women of Comal County (DWCC), are named in ...
Canyon Lake High School’s 2020 graduates will get a chance to walk the stage after all. Comal ISD announced last week that ceremonies are scheduled for 8 p.m. June 4 at the school’s stadium, 8555 ...
While students remain home, Comal ISD nurses have been voluntarily staffing a COVID-19 triage call-center for area physicians. Today is National School Nurse Day, and Comal ISD is celebrating its 36 school nurses, who also ...
Child nutrition professionals at Startzville and Mountain Valley elementary schools helped to prepare 121,518 meals for homebound students-in-need over the last five weeks of the COVID-19 pandemic. ‘Lunch ladies and men’ are considered essential frontline ...
Comal ISD recognized its top academic seniors at Canyon Lake High School with a virtual banquet that allowed students to honor their mentors as well. This year’s 19th Annual Academic Recognition Banquet also paid tribute ...
Twenty-two year education veteran Angela Looney returns to Mountain Valley Middle School (MVMS) as principal after serving as the assistant principal and academic dean at Canyon Lake High School (CLHS) for the last two years. ...
Comal ISD said today it has formalized plans for parents to recover their students’ school supplies, artwork, musical instruments, athletic gear and medications from campuses. “Our focus is on returning your child’s items in a ...
Students can now catch a virtual bus to Comal ISD classrooms. The district has equipped school buses with wireless network devices and parked them at seven strategic locations throughout the district’s 589 square miles to ...
The Comal Independent School District earned a Best Communities for Music Education designation from the National Association for Music Merchants (NAMM) Foundation for its outstanding commitment to music education.
Good news for homebound secondary students. Comal ISD is waving grades and will move to a pass/grade review system for the missing nine weeks of the 2019-20 school year, Supt. Andrew Kim explained in an ...
by Andrew Kim Superintendent, Comal ISD Before I share with you today’s message, I want to take a moment to apologize. As you can imagine, not everyone agrees with the decisions I am making. Please ...
Comal ISD is offering free meals for all Comal ISD students from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Mondays though Fridays. Breakfast service begins on Tuesday and lasts from 7 to 8:30 a.m. Participating campuses are: ...
Canyon Lake High School’s (CLHS) SkillsUSA Law Enforcement Club, aka “Lake Law,” won 11 awards at SkillsUSA Texas District 10 Leadership and Skills Conference in Waco Jan. 31-Feb 1. These students are enrolled in Comal ...
Canyon Lake High School (CLHS) student Anise Christensen placed fourth in Rodeo Austin’s student art contest this week, an all-time best for the school. Her sculpture was one of 366 works of art submitted for ...
Canyon Lake High School Swimming Team competes in UIL district competition in San Antonio this weekend. In the water are, coached by Kim Moses, are: Mia Allison Austen Alvarez Andrew Asfeld Evan Burch Aden Butterfield ...
Canyon Lake-area students made sure wishes came true for their friends this holiday season. Comal ISD staff and student groups hosted holiday giving programs like food drives, toy drives, and blanket drives, bringing seasonal cheer, ...
Funeral services for 11-year-old Mountain Valley Middle School (MVMS) student Brendan Edwards and his mother Melissa Edwards, who were killed in a car accident on Sunday, are scheduled for Saturday, Dec. 7 at St. Thomas ...
What do you want to be when you grow up? Answering that question just got a bit easier for Comal ISD students, who in October gained access to a student-preparedness platform called Comal Compass. The ...
Startzille residents still have time to donate to Operation K9, whose service dog will attend Startzville Elementary School’s Veterans Day Remembrance & Celebration at 9 a.m. Monday at the school, 42111 FM3159. The local organization ...
by HilltopNewspaper.com Canyon Lake could not keep up with an offensive juggernaut against the Badgers Friday night, losing 56-35 in Lampasas. This would be a pick-your-poison game for the Hawk’s defense as Lampasas finished with ...
Athletes at Canyon Lake High School had the opportunity to listen to an award-winning athlete and U.S. Army veteran who knows a little something about perseverance and courage. Three-time paralympian medalist Kari Miller stopped by ...
Comal ISD Board of Trustees approved a seven-cent decrease in the district’s tax rate at its monthly meeting on Tuesday, lowering it from $1.39 to $1.32. The new rate takes effect immediately. This is the ...
Bass fishing is the latest addition to Comal Independent School District’s (Comal ISD) intramural sports program, and teams from Canyon Lake (CLHS)and Smithson Valley (SVHS) high schools competed in their first tournament on Sept. 14. ...
Today, P.J. O’Toole is a senior at Smithson Valley High School and a full back on the Rangers football team. But as a kindergartner at Bill Brown Elementary he was diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia ...
Sure, you’ve heard about the retirees who are master naturalists, master gardeners, and long-term volunteers at Tye Preston Memorial Library — but did you know Comal County has the biggest Retired Senior Volunteer Program (RSVP) ...
Comal ISD Director of Safety and Security Joe McKenna said the the district is implementing new procedures, partnerships and training designed to keep students safe this upcoming school year. They include: Classroom go-kits Lockdown alert ...
Canyon Lake High School, Startzville Elementary, Mountain Valley Elementary, Mountain Valley Middle School and Rebecca Creek Elementary earned solid “Bs” on the Texas Education Agency’s (TEA) 2019 Accountability ratings, released Thursday by Comal ISD. The ...
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Hays and Blanco counties.Here is House District 45's daily case count as of 7pm Central, August 11th, 2020 per the CDC, Texas Department of State Health Services, Hays County Health Department, and Blanco County Emergency Management.
In a statement today, Comal County’s Office of Public Health also confirmed eight other deaths related to COVID-19, and reported 88 new cases of the disease.
Canyon Lake Woman in her 80s Dies of COVID-19 | My Canyon Lake
A Canyon Lake woman in her 80s died in a San Antonio hospital Aug. 3 of COVID-19. Comal County reported eight other deaths and 88 new cases.