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Lions Club offers vision screenings

Gov. Greg Abbott said Tuesday his long-awaited special session on “school choice” will start next month while promising political consequences for lawmakers who stand in the way of his priority legislation.

For the first time since I’ve started covering Texas State football, I saw Bobcat Stadium come to life.

Texas State was back on the gridiron this week, following the Bobcats home opening win over the Jackson State Tigers, 77-34.

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San Marcos City Council voted on several hot-button financial items for the community on Tuesday, including passage of a budget and tax rate.

In the second major series of arrests in recent weeks in Hays County, the Kyle Police Department announced in a press release that officers had arrested five people in connection to a human smuggling case.

Texas State University jumped 51 spots on U.S. News and World Report’s Best National Universities ranking for 2024, among the largest improvements in the nation.

DEAR ABBY: My son’s former wife was difficult -- manipulative, spoiled and possessive. I tried to get along with her, but no matter what I did, she gave me no respect and turned my son against me. They have been divorced for six years. He began dating a few years ago, and each woman is a carbon copy of the ex-wife. He falls right back into the same pattern of ignoring me and letting his girlfriends “possess” him. I’m deeply hurt. I don’t understand why he feels he has to choose between them and me. He is my son, and I shouldn’t have to compete for his love.

John Eastman–former President Donald Trump’s lawyer and one of the people indicted in the state of Georgia’s case alleging an illegal plot to overturn the 2020 election–was one of six speakers at the Oldham- Cummings VFW Post 6441 in Wimberley this past weekend.

The city of Kyle is accepting applications for several board and commission openings.

Nikoleta Theodoropoulou, Ph.D., an associate professor in the Department of Physics at Texas State University, has received a U.S. Department of Defense grant to research the potential of exotic materials for use in cutting-edge technologies.