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Over the last several years I have put into print what was previously just a lot of memories of the past seven decades of my life in and around Bandera. I like to dwell on the happier events simply because they were the best of times and they help to relieve some of the stress and pain of growing old.
Read moreGov. Greg Abbott has asked the Texas Legislature to increase the penalty for illegal voting, adding the item to the third special session now underway. However, House Speaker Dade Phelan, R-Beaumont, quickly rejected the proposal, according to the Austin American-Statesman.
Read moreEarly newspapers quenched the need of an often-isolated population for news of the outside world, served with a dose of local gossip. For many editors, the newspaper was also used as a platform to show how lively their hamlet was in order to attract new businesses and visitors. Bandera’s first newspaper was started on December 3, 1880 when Phil J. Stephenson and W. D. Ward began the Bandera Bugle. To print the paper, they moved a printing press over from Kerrville where Stephenson had been printing the Frontiersman. They set up in J. P. Heinen’s two-story rock building, just south of the old wool and mohair warehouse. Being close to the Medina River, the building is no longer there as it was completely washed away in the flood of 1900.
Read moreDawn Peterson of Dripping Springs shows off her Bandera Bulletin during a trip to Scotland to visit family. Dawn and her husband took the Bandera Bulletin and Trailhead with them to show them to family, including the article on the pet parade in which Dawn’s boxer mix named Daisy placed second in the favorite storybook character category. BULLETIN PHOTO/Courtesy Photo
Read moreAn article on last week’s front page with the headline “Three new COVID deaths reported” said that the total death count to date as of Monday (September 27, 2021) afternoon was 76. That number should have been 46. The Bulletin apologies for the error.
Read moreLast week I wrote about this scriptural principle, “We do not look at the things that are seen, but at the things that are not seen. For the things that are seen are temporal, but the things which are not seen are eternal” (ll Corinthians 4:18). Prospective rulers (kings) have got to understand this.
Read moreWeary! Are you ever weary? Do you ever come home from work, from school, from running innumerable errands, from spending a long day at the doctors’ office, and just drop in a chair, slump down (sigh!) and just say “I’ve had it, I’m too pooped to continue, I need a break?”
Read moreTwo new deaths in Bandera County were attributed to COVID-19, bringing the death count since the start of the pandemic to 48, according to the Texas Department of State Health Services (DSHS) as of Monday morning.
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