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Tennyson Moreno announced his campaign for State Representative House District 45 as a Republican last week. Erin Zwiener is the current State Representative for Texas House District 45.

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The Hays County Commissioners Court will hear a presentation by the Homeless Coalition of Hays County regarding the status of homelessness in the county, a presentation by Austin Pets Alive! about the results of the Community Needs and Values Survey and could authorize an increase to the renewal agreement with Wellpath, LLC., which provides health services for county adult and juvenile detention. The regularly scheduled meeting begins at 9 a.m.

The San Marcos City Council is set to consider further postponement of the Vision SMTX Comprehensive Plan in order to give more time for public input, could consider a reallocation of American Rescue Plan Act funds and additional funds to the contract for ARPA fund consulting firm and could consider several large purchases and contract increases. The regularly scheduled meeting is set for 6 p.m.

Nearly 1.7 million Texans have lost their health insurance — the largest number of people any state has removed — in the months since Texas began peeling people from Medicaid as part of the post-pandemic “unwinding.” Around 65% of these removals occurred because of procedural reasons, according to the state.

The Prince Solms Chapter for The Sons of the Republic of Texas held its December meeting at Granzin’s Restaurant in New Braunfels, Texas on 16 December 2023. Installation of new officers for the calendar year 2024 was conducted.

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The Hays County Mental Health Court hosted the first commencement in celebration of those graduating from the Court program. Those in attendance included the family and friends of the program participants.

It appears inflation and skyrocketing prices are having an impact on local spending habits as there has been a decrease in sales tax allocations for San Marcos for the previous two distributions. The tax allocations for last month have decreased by almost 8% from the previous year.

“I’ve spent 90 years working up to this party,” said Milton Vaverek at the start of his 90th birthday party, held on Dec. 14 at Dunbar Recreation Center. Vaverek stood in the center of the main room at Dunbar, one hand holding a microphone, the other a helium birthday balloon, just before he kicked off a warm-up square dance for a substantial crowd of family and friends.

In true Texas fashion, country music was the herald for this winter season with the kickoff of the annual Snowbird Concert Series, which will include a free concert on the first Thursday of the month until March. Terri Hendrix and Lloyd Maines, both Grammy award winners, have been playing music together for decades now, in addition to the work they’ve been doing for over ten years for Own Your Own Universe, Hendrix’ nonprofit. It makes perfect sense that the pair would head the series.

The Hays County Commissioners court honored a family that was pivotal in the development of Dripping Springs and provided so many valuable resources to the town by opening their property to it. The court proclaimed Dec. 8, 2023 as the Pound House Farmstead Day.