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Gray Horse Saloon closes after 15 years, others at Crestwood continue on

The potential expansion of a planned and much rethought industrial park with heavy industrial zoning that will affect parts of Caldwell and Hays counties has many citizens asking questions of the newest developer to throw its hat into the land use ring.

Percival Everett’s novel, 'The Trees', has won the 2022 L.D. and La-Verne Harrell Clark Fiction Prize.

Our beautiful, fragile Hill Country gives our community its unique character. KZSM.org proudly announces two new shows dedicated to celebrating and preserving the environment—“ Mothering Earth,” Tuesdays at 11 a.m., followed by “Wonderful World,” at 11:30.

The LBJ Museum is hosting a spring lecture this month. The lecture features Jean Schuler, author of At the Table with LBJ and Lady Bird: History, Humor, and True Texas Recipes. The event begins with a reception at 6 p.m. followed by the lecture at 6:30 p.m. The lecture is free and open to the public however we ask that you register through the museum’s website at lbjmuseum. com.

The San Marcos Unitarian Universalist Fellowship Sewing Guild meets weekly to sew child-sized and adult lap quilts to donate to those in need and has done so for years. For example, the guild gives these handmade quilts to families at the border, to Alzheimer's patients in nursing homes, to children in foster care, to children in Head Start and to others.

Kevin Katz will be the guest of the San Marcos Rotary Club on Wednesday, March 22, where he will offer those interested in RVs— enthusiasts and wanabees, a glimpse into some of his personal adventures on the road. Katz, a Rotarian himself, will speak about how he and his wife, Melissa, first got involved in the Airstream community after acquiring a 1965 trailer.

My wife, Beth, and I, after retiring as pastor from Cowboys for Jesus Church at Canyon Lake, have been living the dream for a month of fishing in the Florida Keys. We rented a cottage on Little Torch Key about 25 miles north of Key West and 20 miles south of Marathon. For a fisherman this is heaven-water everywhere. Plus I brought my boat.

The Greater San Marcos Manufacturers Association, Greater San Marcos Partnership and Workforce Solutions Rural Capital Area are teaming up to present a manufacturing roundtable for senior leadership in manufacturing organizations, located in Hays and Caldwell Counties.

The City of San Marcos invites the public to participate in an open house to review and provide input on the proposed San Marcos Regional Airport Zoning Ordinance.

Providing a once in a lifetime opportunity for the young poets of Hays County is the goal of two recent graduates of Texas State University.

The Texas Senate on Wednesday unanimously passed a key bill of the Legislature’s war on opioids that would increase the penalties related to the sale and production of fentanyl, by classifying overdoses from the drug as “poisonings.”