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Being a river town and a community that prides itself on keeping the San Marcos and Blanco rivers clean, of interest to many San Martians will be the temporary art exhibit created with water conservation in mind.

Public Utility Commission Chair Peter Lake on Wednesday warned that Texas’ main power grid is at risk for outages this summer if wind turbines don’t produce enough electricity when it’s needed. He yet again made the case that more on-demand power sources, such as natural-gas-fueled power plants or batteries, need to be built to make the grid more reliable.

Gary Job Corps helps AMVETS

DEAR ABBY: My mother passed away years ago. I have one older sister, “Nadine.” Following my mother’s death, with the blessing of my father, Nadine and I divided Mom’s jewelry. My sister almost immediately began digging through closets and drawers and removing items from our parents’ home every time she visited our father.

In a process that has taken many months, members of the San Marcos City Council finally heard the particulars of a renegotiated meet and confer agreement between it and the San Marcos Police Officers Association.

The city of San Marcos will host its annual citywide update, SMTX 2023 on May 9.

Hays County Sheriff's Office hosted a joint press conference with the District Attorney’s Office and the Drug Enforcement Agency’s Fentanyl Task Force at the county’s Public Safety Building Wednesday to provide an update of the investigation into the death of 15-year-old male from a fentanyl overdose on April 11. Police said they have arrested and charged an 18-year-old with both felony murder and delivery of a controlled dangerous substance.

Local elections have been ramping up, and this is the community’s chance to weigh in on San Marcos Consolidated Independent School District Trustee members and bonds.

School districts across Texas face a demand to hire more state-credentialed teachers to teach popular advanced academic courses. Texas State University’s College of Education aims to help address that need with the new fully online Master of Education in Secondary Education — Teaching Advanced Academics Concentration.

Dear Abby

This week marked the deadline for first-year college applicants to many universities to decide about whether and where to enroll. It can be a very difficult choice involving a range of financial, educational, and emotional factors. Through high school, options are much more limited for most young people. Beyond that point, however, a vast number of paths emerge – full-time work, technical training programs, colleges and universities, and much more. Let’s look at what recent high school and college graduates are doing.

This past Wednesday, Lizzy Fritzler, a senior at Hill Country Christian School, committed to the University of Health Sciences and Pharmacy in St. Louis, Missouri, to be a member of their track and field team, throwing both shotput and discus. Lizzy will be studying pharmacology and plans to get her Doctor of Pharmacy degree.