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The Kerrville Police Department is seeking the public's assistance in helping to identify an individual involved in an alleged attempt to pass counterfeit currency at a local H-E-B on December 2. The suspect in the photograph was said to have possibly been with a male subject who was seen driving a silver SUV, according to police. Anyone with any information regarding the subject in the photograph is asked to call […]

The City of Kerrville's 2022 Solid Waste Calendar brochures have been mailed out to all city residential customers who have solid waste service with the City of Kerrville. The brochures were mailed to customers' utility billing account, and refrigerator magnets are available for pick up at City Hall, 701 Main Street. The color coded calendar also gives instructions regarding schedules for future residential trash collections, recycling information, stipulations for the […]

The City of Kerrville Parks and Recreation Department will be accepting Christmas trees for recycling beginning December 26, until January 16, 2022 at the designated drop-off area in Lehmann-Monroe Park, 200 Park Lane. There is no cost associated with this program. All Christmas trees should be free of ornaments, lights, hangers, icicles, strings and any other glass, metal or plastic. Trees that were not sold from retailers will be accepted […]

The Kerrville Independent School District released a statement Friday regarding a national social media trend that rumors a non-specific school shooting threat on Friday, December 17. Other school districts around the nation have also issued warnings about the social media trend, which is believed to have originated on TikTok. KISD officials state that there is no specific threat to any Kerrville ISD school, but out of an abundance of caution, […]

The City of Kerrville Public Works Department's Solid Waste Division has announced their upcoming holiday schedule and special trash collection that will be offered to residents on their regular trash collection pickup day during the week of December 27, 2021. The special collection is intended for bagged trash, which will be picked up in addition to resident's regular trash bins. Christmas trees will not be collected during this collection and […]

The City of Kerrville's Parks and Recreation Advisory Board is asking for the public's input at their upcoming December 15 meeting, scheduled for 5:15 PM at the Dietert Center in Kerrville, 451 Guadalupe Street. The meeting is meant for discussing the Parks and Recreation Department's Parks, Recreation, and Open Space Master Plan Update. The current master plan was put into place in 2008, and according to the Director of Parks […]

Despite weather forecasts predicting for warmer, drier weather this winter in the Texas Hill Country, residents are urged to begin making their winter preparations now - just in case. "Just like this year, last year was a La Nina year, too, meaning a warmer and drier winter season than usual. We all remember how that turned out," said Kerr County Emergency Management Coordinator Dub Thomas. Thomas adds that the time […]

The most recent COVID-19 statistics reported in Kerr County show that case numbers remain relatively stable since Thanksgiving, with local active cases increasing, but area hospitalizations getting smaller. According to Kerr County Emergency Management Coordinator Dub Thomas, Kerr County has 386 active coronavirus cases, 6,702 recoveries, 4 COVID-19 hospitalizations at Peterson Regional Medical Center and 140 confirmed COVID-19 fatalities (an increase by two individuals), as of December 6. The Texas […]