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Eleven people at Canyon Lake High School (CLHS) have tested positive for COVID-19 since at least Oct. 13 and someone at Mountain Valley Middle School (MVMS) recently tested positive for the virus, Principal Angela Looney ...
Comal ISD says it welcomes the return of 3,000 students for in-person learning on Wednesday, but Comal County health authority Dr. Dorothy Overman, a consultant, isn’t welcoming the school district’s new rules for quarantine. Comal ...
Free flu shots will be available for all Comal ISD students on Friday, Oct. 23. To register, visit comalisd.org/flu/. Sign up for a clinic is not required but will help the district plan to have ...
Canyon Lake High School Hawks’ Friday night homecoming game against the Taylor ISD Ducks is canceled due to COVID-19, Cory Martelli with Canyon Lake Broadcasting said today. The game was canceled due to a positive ...
Thanks to special funding from U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), standard breakfast-and-lunch meals at Comal ISD are now free. The district announced the change in an email to parents Tuesday. The USDA program covers meals ...
Two days after she was hired to provide Comal ISD with a “fresh perspective” on health issues like COVID-19, Dr. Erin Wright resigned as the district’s medical consultant, citing a social-media campaign that discredited her ...
Comal ISD hired a new medical consultant to provide a “fresh perspective” on protecting 25,000 students and 3,000 faculty and employees during the COVID-19 pandemic. The district announced today that Dr. Erin Wright will replace ...
Comal ISD’s Board of Trustees lowered the district’s tax rate by four cents on Tuesday, making it the lowest tax rate since 1990. The new property tax rate is $1.2757. It goes into effect immediately. ...
Canyon High School (CLS) students Aaden Thomas and Josh Gideon captured eighth place at the Texas High School Bass Association’s Hill Country Division tournament at Lake Buchanan on Sept. 26. They weren’t the only students ...
Comal ISD was named a “District of Distinction” by the Texas Art Education Association (TAEA), the district said today. This places the district among 18 districts to receive the honor two year in a row ...
Mountain Valley Elementary School emailed parents and guardians today informing them of a lab-confirmed positive case of COVID-19. The school said it cannot divulge identifiable information about the member of its campus community who tested ...
South Texas Youth Soccer has named Canyon Lake High School (CLHS) senior Joshua “Josh” Sczech its Boys Scholar Athlete of the Year for 2020. The 17-year-old soccer star has a 3.68 GPA. He received a ...
Canyon Lake High School sent an email to parents today alerting them that another three members of its campus community tested positive for COVID-19, but said it believes any spread was mitigated through social distancing ...
Parents and students of color who showed up at Thursday night’s Comal ISD board of trustees meeting to talk about diversity said they were forced instead to stand at the back of the room by ...
Comal ISD reported 17 current positive cases, 110 symptomatic cases and 104 “exposures” to positive cases of COVID-19 on its dashboard today. DISTRICTWIDE AS OF SEPT. 4: Current positive cases, district-wide: 17 Current symptomatic cases, ...
Diversity isn’t on the agenda, but at least a dozen Comal ISD parents plan to speak out about racism during public comments at the September board of trustees meeting 6 p.m. Thursday in the administration ...
Comal ISD reported 11 current positive cases, 130 symptomatic cases and 83 “exposures” to positive cases of COVID-19 on its dashboard Friday. There are now three active cases of coronavirus in Support Services staff. Two ...
There are now 12 positive cases of the virus in Comal ISD’s “campus communities,” according to the district’s COVID-19 Active Management dashboard. Today, the district reported 12 “current positive cases district-wise,” 118 “current symptomatic cases ...
Comal ISD Board of Trustees President David Drastata was the top story on TV news Friday. Reporter Henry Ramos opened San Antonio KENS 5 TV’s 10 p.m. show with a report about a controversial email ...
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 ...
Canyon Lake Broadcasting will livestream Friday’s ‘Battle of the Backbone’ between the Canyon Lake High School Hawks and the Wimberley High School Texans starting at 6:30 p.m. on Youtube. Click here to watch the away ...
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. ...
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’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 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, ...
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 ...
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 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. ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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New Braunfels' Morena Hockley's 'Carnevil' makes the San Antonio Express!
Creative San Antonio craft designer and family decorate home into Halloween nightmare
Halloween is a fun-filled fright fest for Morena Hockley and her family. Hockley inherited her passion for Halloween from her mother, from Italy, and her father, a southerner who couldn't celebrate Halloween in his strict religious home.At 4PM the heat index at McAllen, in Deep South Texas, was 104 deg F 🥵 while the wind chill at Dalhart, in the Panhandle of Texas, was 4 deg F 🥶! That's a 100 degree apparent temperature spread! (map courtesy mesonet.org)
Welcome to the republic of Texas...:-)