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The City of Fredericksburg is hosting a rabies clinic for cats and dogs from 8 a.m.-2 p.m., Saturday, Feb. 7 at the City Maintenance Yard on Friendship Lane.  For more information, call the City Animal Shelter at (830) 997-1907. The Doss 4-H Club is sponsoring a Dog and Cat Rabies Vaccination Clinic on Saturday, Feb. 7, from 9 to 11 a.m. at the Doss Community Center, 14174 N. Ranch Road […]

Several Hunt community members met Tuesday at the Hunt Volunteer Fire Department to share the news of a check presentation.  The Hope for Hunt Benefit Concert was held last October with the goal of supporting two groups in the Hunt community. The $30,000 check was split between the Hunt Preservation Society, which is helping families directly affected by the Fourth of July floods with supplies and rebuilding efforts. The other […]

Kerr County Commissioners unanimously approved the Lt. Dan Band to play a three-hour concert during a commissioners court meeting on Monday.  According to George McHorse, an adjutant at American Legion Memorial Post 208, the concert is scheduled for April 18 at Flat Rock Park along the Guadalupe River.  The Gary Sinese Foundation will begin setting up the day before. Additionally, the foundation will help with cleanup afterward, security requirements and […]

A 38-year-old woman is safe, and a 35-year-old man, identified as Anthony Harwell, has been arrested and charged with Aggravated Kidnapping. On Monday, February 2, at 10:44 p.m. Kerrville Police Department (KPD) officers responded to a report of a kidnapping that took place in a parking garage in the 200 block of Water Street.  Officers spoke with a witness who reported that they took the victim to meet Harwell in […]

A new work rule requirement for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) went into effect on Sunday which requires recipients to work at least 20 hours per week or 80 hours per month.  Recipients must log their work hours and submit them to the Texas Health and Human Services Commission, which will verify the hours. SNAP provides more than 3 million Texans with financial assistance to buy groceries.  Texas Health […]

Kerr County voters who have not received their voter registration cards are being notified that there has been a delay in the mailing of the cards.  "If you haven't received a new voter registration card in the mail yet, don't worry," said Texas Secretary of State Jane Nelson's office.  The SOS elections division further explained, "Due to legal challenges of the redistricted Congressional maps, counties were delayed in being able […]

A CLEAR Alert has been issued by the Texas Department of Public Safety as police search for a missing woman last seen Monday night in Kerrville.  The Kerrville Police Dept. says April Whitley, 38, was last seen around 9:51 p.m. on February 2, in the 200 block of Clay Street. Whitley is described as 5 feet 4 inches tall, weighing about 150 pounds, with brown hair and brown eyes.  She […]

Governor Greg Abbott has issued a statewide disaster declaration over a flesh-eating fly that could affect food supply.  The New World Screwworm (NWS), a parasitic fly whose flesh-eating larvae can cause severe tissue damage in warm-blooded animals and occasionally humans.  The fly has not yet been detected in Texas or the United States, but cases in Northern Mexico have raised concerns for a northward spread toward the US. Mexico's animal […]

Texas will join more than a dozen other states in launching a school choice program when the application portal opens on Feb. 4.  The program is called Texas Education Freedom Accounts.  TEFA will provide families with an opportunity to apply for financial assistance to homeschool their students, send them to private school or provide their child with personalized tutoring. Texas Education Freedom Accounts will provide families an opportunity to use […]