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The walls of Adam Wagner’s history classroom at San Marcos High School reflect his innovative contributions to student learning—the expected historical posters and world maps and the unexpected cycling helmets and bicycle racing bibs.

In 1995, when local music legend, attorney, and entrepreneur Lucky Tomblin produced the Sacred Springs Powwow in San Marcos, Native Americans in Texas knew they had a home where the culture of the First People of the Americas was welcomed, celebrated and valued. Fifteen years later, the powwow’s standard was raised again by the Indigenous Cultures Institute, when representatives from the nonprofit visited Tomblin and his wife Becky and asked permission to reinstate the Sacred Springs Powwow as an annual event. Now in its thirteenth year, the powwow is scheduled for October 7 and 8 at the Meadows Center for Water and the Environment.

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University educators give class to help with aging

For the 11th consecutive year, Bluebonnet Electric Cooperative’s buildings, vehicles and employees will be adorned in pink during October to raise awareness of National Breast Cancer Awareness Month.

After decades of treating low-income Texans fighting substance addiction, Phoenix House Texas is closing down all six of its outpatient clinics and its last residential treatment center for teens this week because they can no longer count on the state to help fund them, the nonprofit group’s director said Tuesday.

The amount of spending that occurs in the city is rapidly increasing and helping fill the city's coffers, as the tax allocations for last month have grown almost 10% from the previous year–a more than modest increase.

The Hays County Annex Center was host to an event aimed at helping those that provide assistance to service members. At the event Tuesday, the Texas Veterans Commission gifted in excess of $6.4 million in grants to 24 Central Texas Veteran Service Organizations.

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The Harry Potter Ford Anglia is flying into Kyle, Texas on October 8, 2023.