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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.

The Texas House on Monday gave final approval to a bill that would give retired teachers a small bump in their monthly retirement checks. For some, this could be their first cost-of-living adjustment in almost 20 years.

The San Marcos Consolidated Independent School District Board of Trustees recently approved raises for some district employees and tabled action on other raises pending more budget planning in anticipation of action that may be taken by the Texas legislature.

Community Action, Inc. of Central Texas has a mission to bring health care to many of the community’s underinsured, uninsured and low income residents in rural counties.

When the kids are bouncing off the walls, it is time to help them get some energy out. But as the remnants of spring burn off into the heat of a Texas summer, there is only so much time you can spend pushing the swings at Children’s Park before it is time to get indoors.

Ketan Cowan and Michelle Bubnis were winners of the recent Bobcat Prowl

DEAR ABBY: My son recently confided that his fiancee is pregnant with our first grandchild. He asked me not to share this information with my wife, his mother. He knew she would be upset because he was in the process of breaking up with his fiancee. I told him I would keep his confidence for a short while, but that he should please tell Mom soon.

CHRISTUS Santa Rosa Hospital – San Marcos announced the promotion of Anna Gore to the role of chief nursing officer.

Texas House passes 'get-tough' criminal penalties

A new film series, First Tuesday SMTX, debuts Tuesday in San Marcos, the vision of Jeffrey Brown, filmmaker and documentarian, offering cinema devotees the opportunity to see films that seldom reach Hays County.

Nine Texas State University programs have been named among the Best Graduate School Rankings for 2023-2024 by U.S. News and World Report.