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The City of Kerrville's Household Hazardous Waste (HHW) Event, held in partnership with Kerr County, will be Saturday, Feb. 22 from 8 a.m. to noon at the Hill Country Youth Event Center, 3785 Hwy. 27. Vehicles should enter through Gate 1 at the northwest entrance. The event is a first-come, first-served event, and vehicles must be inside the gate prior to noon. Anyone planning to attend should be aware of […]

A woman who shot and killed a man in Fredericksburg a year ago, claiming he drugged and kidnapped her, has been charged with his murder. Amy Maynor Lejeune is accused of killing 49-year-old Lance Damon Reid on March 15, 2024. In March, law enforcement found a man dead after Lejeune called 911 and said she shot her alleged kidnapper, according to the Gillespie County Sheriff's Office. Lejeune and Reid were […]

Gillespie County is now accepting applications for 2025 Hotel Occupancy Tax (HOT) funds. These funds support qualified events, projects, and programs that promote tourism and increase overnight visitors staying in lodging within the unincorporated areas of the County. Texas law restricts HOT fund use to specific tourism-related purposes, and HOT funds must be used to promote tourism and the hotel and lodging industry in Gillespie County. Application packets began being […]

The City of Kerrville encourages everyone to review its unclaimed property list which represents checks that were issued when an account is closed and the customer moves. It is possible the check went to the wrong address or was lost in the process of a move. Once identification is verified, a check can be reissued. In addition, unclaimed property meeting certain age and dollar amount requirements is remitted to the […]

The Government Finance Officers Association recently announced that the City Of Kerrville has for a second consecutive year received GFOA's Outstanding Achievement in Popular Annual Financial Reporting (PAFR) Award for its Popular Annual Financial Report for the fiscal year ended Sept. 30, 2023. The award represents a significant achievement by the City. In order to be eligible for the PAFR Award, a government must also submit its annual Comprehensive Financial […]

Due to road construction being conducted by the City of Ingram, patrons of the West Kerr County Courthouse Annex at 510 College Street will need to take an alternate route to visit the facility. From TX27, motorists should take Ingram Loop and turn left onto Clark Street. Then, turn right onto College Street. The entrance to the annex will be immediately after the turn. If traveling on TX39, take Ingram […]

Twin sessions presented by the Texas A&M Forest Service on wildfire mitigation was so popular with Kerr County residents in January, that Kerr County Emergency Management has added two more sessions to the calendar on Wednesday, February 19. "For anyone who might have missed attending one of these sessions when we hosted them in January, this is your opportunity to learn how to protect your property and how to get […]

Any Kerr County-area veterans who have combat boots are being asked to loan them to the Kerr County Veterans Service Office for a special display planned for the 2025 Memorial Day Program. "Our appeal a few months ago yielded very few loans, leaving us far short of our goal. So, we're asking our community again in the hopes we can pull this off," said Kerr County Veterans Service Officer Jenna […]

Most Kerr County offices will be closed Monday, February 17, in observance of the federal holiday, Presidents Day. The one-day break will affect those local governmental offices located in the Kerr County Courthouse, located at 700 Main Street in Kerrville, the West Kerr County Courthouse Annex, 510 College Street in Ingram, the county-owned 550 Earl Garrett Street complex and others. Business hours will resume to normal on Tuesday, February 18. […]