Darren Casey needs six of seven San Marcos City Council votes to approve a luxury shopping and housing complex he wants to build on Sessom Drive across from Texas State University. He doesn’t have them.
A survey commissioned by the City of San Marcos showed that residents generally have a positive view of city services and spending priorities, but are less happy with the quality of new development, planning for growth and availability of job opportunities.
A movement is underway to convince City Manager Jim Nuse to reconsider his decision to retire in less than four months, an announcement made via a midnight email to city council and staff that caught everyone by surprise.
Austin public television station KLRU will feature the African-American experience in San Marcos this week during the station’s Juneteenth Jamboree.
Kelly Franks, who has administrated the city’s Main Street program for 25 years and co-founded the annual Sights and Sounds of Christmas festival, is retiring.
San Marcos police do not anticipate making arrests in an early Tuesday shooting that sent a man to an Austin hospital with multiple gunshot wounds.
May was a record-setting month for the San Marcos Mercury both in terms of the number of people who visited our little local news website and the number of times they found reason to come back for more.
Welcome spring rains have raised the level of the Edwards Aquifer, allowing San Marcos residents to return to Stage 1 drought restrictions effective Wednesday, June 5.
Starting this month, you need to dial ten or dial again. The Austin area is getting a new area code, 737, and from now on, everyone needs to dial all 10 digits of a local number, area code included.
San Marcos City Manager Jim Nuse notified city council members in an email sent shortly after midnight this morning that he is resigning effective Sept. 30.
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