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It’s back again by popular demand. The bird poetry contest is here once more.

May is a time to Celebrate

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The city is hosting an event to pay homage to the important women in young girls' lives that shape them into the adults that they will one day become. The event is a morning tea from 10 a.m to 1 p.m. on Saturday May 6 at the Pauline Espinosa Community Hall located at 170 Charles Austin Drive. The cost is $6 per person and will include activities, snacks and a keepsake photo. Registration closes at noon on May 5. The link to register online is sanmarcostx.gov/ activesmtx. For more information on other youth events go to sanmarcostx. gov/youth.

DarkSky Texas recently announced its new name along with a new initiative intended to reach more Texans about ways to improve outdoor lighting to benefit ourselves, the economy, and nature.

The Austin Gay Men’s Chorus will take the stage for “Ascending Colour: An AGMC Concert,” which will spotlight music arranged and composed by people of color and the LGBTQIA+ communities, on Saturday, May 6 at 8 p.m. and Sunday, May 7 at 4 p.m. at First Austin, 901 Trinity Street in Austin. Tickets are available online at atxgmc.org/.

Q.I saw that the library will have a kite exhibit this summer called “The Sacred Springs.” How are kites associated with the springs?

Not all birds are beautiful.

San Marcos Academy stages spring musical ‘The Wizard of Oz’

HASM holds Historic Spring Tour with Texas State

The Hays County Courthouse will host a combined set of events Saturday, rescheduled due to the recent inclement weather. The inaugural Día del Niño co-sponsored by Community Action, Inc. of Central Texas, Centro Cultural Hispano de San Marcos and Baby Day: Presented by First3Years is from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.

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