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Jude Prather

Wednesday, August 3rd, 2016

Video: San Marcos council clears way for new H-E-B on Wonder World Drive

After more than three and a half hours of discussion, the San Marcos City Council approved measures Tuesday night that will allow San Antonio-based H-E-B Grocery Co. to build a grocery store at the northwestern corner of Wonder World Drive and Hunter Road.

Friday, January 8th, 2016

Brad Rollins’ Blog: A new normal for San Marcos P&Z

The San Marcos City Council’s new majority — a bloc of members who regularly profess wariness of real estate development and developers — moved closer to cementing control of the planning and zoning commission with their appointment...

Saturday, September 12th, 2015

Gallery: City pauses to remember Sept. 11, a solemn San Marcos tradition

As they have for 14 years, a cross-section of San Marcos people gathered in front of city hall on Friday to commemorate the anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.

Thursday, September 3rd, 2015

San Marcos to remember tragedy, heroics of Sept. 11

The city will hold a remembrance ceremony to commemorate the heroes and victims of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks at 8:45 a.m. Friday, Sept. 11 at San Marcos City Hall, 630 E. Hopkins St.

Wednesday, September 2nd, 2015

Video: Blanco River volume, velocity during Memorial Day weekend flood rivaled Mississippi River at St. Louis

Even before it reached San Marcos, the Blanco River was flowing at 180,000 cubic feet per second — the average volume and velocity of the Mississippi River at St. Louis, a hydrologist told the San Marcos...

Wednesday, September 2nd, 2015

State to extend no-interest loans to veterans rebuilding from Blanco flood

Military veterans whose homes were damaged by the Memorial Day weekend flood and other natural disasters this summer will be eligible to apply for no-interest home improvement loans under a relief program being developed by the Texas...

Wednesday, August 19th, 2015

San Marcos council moves to clip Airport Commission’s wings

Facing calls from within to either disband or restructure the San Marcos Airport Commission, city council members took the first step Tuesday toward stripping the appointed body of most of its traditionally broad purview.

Monday, April 20th, 2015

SMFD celebrates new fire truck at Hunter Road station

The San Marcos Fire Department celebrated the delivery of a new fire truck with a “pushing-in” ceremony on April 17 at Fire Station No. 3 on Hunter Road.

Friday, April 17th, 2015

San Marcos council members poised to finalize pay raise for San Marcos council members

After giving the measure initial approval earlier this month, the San Marcos City Council is scheduled on Tuesday to take a second vote on double-digit percentage increases in the compensation its members receive.

Thursday, March 13th, 2014

Faces: Former First Baptist pastor honored by city council

Mayor Daniel Guerrero proclaims March 4 as “Pastor Mark Newton Day” in San Marcos. Newton, a Baylor University graduate and long-time senior pastor at First Baptist Church of San Marcos, left San Marcos earlier this year to...

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