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The Kerrville Municipal court wants to remind area drivers that October 16-20 is National School Bus Safety Week and has shared ways to help protect our local school-age kids. Texas law requires drivers to STOP for school buses with red lights flashing and stop arms extended when children are boarding or exiting the bus.  Drivers must stay stopped until the school bus resumes motion, the bus driver signals you to […]

Kerrville Pets Alive! is calling on the public to consider adopting a dog to ease crowding at the Kerr County Animal Shelter.  According to KPA! president, Karen Guerriero, the Kerr County Animal Shelter is almost at full capacity, and euthanization is pending for several dogs if they are not adopted. KCAS currently has roughly 30 kennels along with an additional 20 quarantine kennels.  The animal shelter aims to have six […]

The Butt-Holdsworth Memorial Library will be welcoming NASA to the library on Friday, October 14, starting at 1 p.m.  There are many different activities scheduled throughout the afternoon, including a presentation by Dr. Therese Moretto Jorgensen, acting deputy director for the Heliophysics Division in the Science Mission Directorate at NASA headquarters in Washington, D.C. Dr. Jorgensen will give an overview of solar eclipses:  what causes them, some history of studying […]

The Headwaters Groundwater Conservation District announced Wednesday that it will return to Stage 3 Water Conservation measures effective immediately after operating at Stage 4 since early August. The City of Kerrville moved to Stage 4 measures on August 24 and capitalized on the reduction in water demand to perform maintenance on two groundwater wells and one ASR well.  This particular type of work is usually done in the winter months, […]

The City of Kerrville's Street Division will be closing the city's standard short parade route to include downtown on Thursday, October 5, for the 2023 Tivy High School homecoming parade. Parade entrants will be staging on Hugo Street from Water Street to Guadalupe Street beginning at 4:45 p.m.  The parade steps off at 6:15 p.m. The route for the parade will be Water Street from State Highway 27 to State […]

The Kerrville City Council has proclaimed October 2023 as Hill Country Night Sky Month in celebration of growing regional efforts to preserve the night skies and also to shed light on the two upcoming solar eclipses.  There will be an annular eclipse on October 14, 2023, followed by a total eclipse on April 8, 2024. In the fall of 2022, the city council also adopted an outdoor lighting ordinance to […]

The City of Kerrville has scheduled the 2024 "Street Banner Sign-Up Day," a lottery-style scheduling event, for Monday, December 11, beginning at 10 a.m. at Kerrville City Hall, 701 Main Street.  Any social or educational institution, religious, non-profit or youth organization is invited to this event for the opportunity to select the location of their choice to display a banner.  Banners will be installed for a period not to exceed […]

The City of Kerrville and its contractor, M&C Fonseca, will begin work on completing a sewer line along Knapp Road beginning Monday, October 9.  Construction is expected to last approximately seven days and will require a full road closure.  The city says that the front entrance to Raising Canes and surrounding businesses will still remain accessible to patrons. City officials say that the week-long closure is necessary to help assure […]

The Schreiner Nursing Program will be hosting a Health Fair for both students and members of the community on Wednesday, October 11 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. in the Cailloux Campus Activity Center on the Schreiner University campus.  Some of the scheduled presenters include representatives from Peterson Health, numerous health-related organizations, and select area businesses. "We are offering the Health Fair because it will be informative on health and […]