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In 1995, when local music legend, attorney, and entrepreneur Lucky Tomblin produced the Sacred Springs Powwow in San Marcos, Native Americans in Texas knew they had a home where the culture of the First People of the Americas was welcomed, celebrated and valued. Fifteen years later, the powwow’s standard was raised again by the Indigenous Cultures Institute, when representatives from the nonprofit visited Tomblin and his wife Becky and asked permission to reinstate the Sacred Springs Powwow as an annual event. Now in its thirteenth year, the powwow is scheduled for October 7 and 8 at the Meadows Center for Water and the Environment.

The walls of Adam Wagner’s history classroom at San Marcos High School reflect his innovative contributions to student learning—the expected historical posters and world maps and the unexpected cycling helmets and bicycle racing bibs.

DEAR ABBY: One of my family members is a loner. I’m the closest relative to them. They invite my children and me over for holiday dinners, but the house is dirty with roaches galore. The bugs even crawl on you during the day on the couch. I don’t want to go there for this reason.

SACRED TIMES

FALL BRINGS FULL SLATE OF FUN

TO BE OR NOT TO BE?

FRIDAY

The Taproom

One of the biggest games in recent memory will take place this Saturday afternoon as Texas State travels to Lafayette to take on longtime nemesis Louisiana.

Rattlers start district play against Clemens in search of first win

After decades of treating low-income Texans fighting substance addiction, Phoenix House Texas is closing down all six of its outpatient clinics and its last residential treatment center for teens this week because they can no longer count on the state to help fund them, the nonprofit group’s director said Tuesday.

The amount of spending that occurs in the city is rapidly increasing and helping fill the city's coffers, as the tax allocations for last month have grown almost 10% from the previous year–a more than modest increase.