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Peterson Health has announced that beginning Thursday, January 6, they will begin offering a new COVID-19 testing center at the Kerrville Medical Plaza. The testing center will further operate Mondays through Fridays, from 7:30 a.m. - 4 p.m., by appointment, for community members over the age of 2 years. PRMC will have an employee available on site to give instructions, and tests will be administered via self-swab testing. This service […]

Texas Governor Greg Abbott announced on December 31 that Texas has formally requested resources for federally supported testing locations, medical personnel and additional federal allocations of the monoclonal antibody treatments. The Texas DSHS has also requested three teams of medical personnel to provide additional support to hospitals in urban areas of the state that do not have DSHS-contracted staff. Abbott's request for more doses of infusion treatments is because they […]

The Kerrville Dog Park located at Lehman-Monroe Park, 200 Park Lane, will be closed beginning Monday, January 3, for maintenance. This scheduled closure is expected to last approximately two weeks. During these two weeks, the Kerrville Parks and Recreation Department will be turning ballfields No. 2 and 3 at Singing Wind Park, 2112 Singing Wind Drive, into a temporary dog park. All visitors are expected to abide by the normal […]

Windstream Communications is currently experiencing outages throughout the area, according to a press release from the Kerrville Police Department. Windstream administrative phone lines will be down for an unknown period of time due to a fiber cut outside the immediate area, and they are working to repair the issue as quickly as possible. All 911 lines are still working but administrative phone lines in and out of KPD are not […]

The City of Kerrville Parks and Recreation Department will be accepting Christmas trees for recycling beginning December 26, 2021 to January 16, 2022. The designated drop-off area will be located in Lehmann-Monroe Park, 200 Park Lane, near the Park Lane/La Casa Street park entrance. Christmas trees should be free of all ornaments, hangers, icicles, strings, glass, metal and plastics and the service is free of charge. Trees that were not […]

Deputies from the Kerr County Sheriff's Office responded to the Hill Country Youth Ranch for a report of a staff member having alleged inappropriate contact with child victims residing on the property, which led to the investigation of one of their employees being arrested. Alexandra Galindo, 30, was arrested in Tom Green County after an investigation allegedly led to the uncovering of digital evidence of Galindo having a romantic and […]

The Medina County Sheriff's Department has issued an Amber Alert for three children who were last seen on Monday, December 20, at approximately 3:45 p.m. with their father near Settlers Pass in Hondo, Texas. Authorities say that the children are believed to be in grave or immediate danger, according to a press release. Jonathon A. Wright, 40, is the father of Jonathon Wright, 11, Lucas Wright, 9, and Ariana Wright, […]

Senate Bill 792 requires that beginning January 1, 2022, anyone parked in a disabled parking space must have a license plate or a disabled parking placard that features the International Symbol of Access (ISA). Currently, disabled veteran license plates do not feature the ISA, and all Texans with these plates are permitted to use disabled parking. Veterans with "DV" plates, but without the ISA symbol, will not be able to […]