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The University of Texas at San Antonio Institute for Economic Development has launched the Small Business Development Center COVID-19 Business Recovery Accelerator, or SBDC COBRA, to help small businesses weather the financial hardships caused by
Read moreThe Compassus hospice and palliative care program serving San Antonio and surrounding counties now ranks among the company’s top two programs in the country, the company said in an April news release.
Read moreWhen the city encountered roadblocks in getting a stimulus fund set up to help local businesses that have been pummeled by the economic hardships associated with the coronavirus pandemic, a collection of business and civic leaders started their own fundraiser to provide much needed aid to businesses, and the drive is still alive.
Read moreAn online COVID-19 testing site map to help Texans locate test collection sites within their community has been launched by the Texas Division of Emergency Management and Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, the governor’s office said in a news release last month.
Read moreThe Bandera County Republican Women will hold a meeting on Thursday, May 7, but it will be online, not in person, and will give participants an opportunity to hear Texas Republican Party Chairman James Dickey talk about what’s being done to keep the state in Republican hands in the upcoming election.
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Chikin Coop customers enjoy meals and drinks at tables set up just outside the establishment’s property lines along Main Street in Bandera on Saturday, May 2, the second day restaurants were allowed to serve customers inside their doors since strict limitations were imposed on business activities more than a month ago in the fight against the coronavirus. Bandera Mayor Suzanne Schauman, whose family owns the bar, said since the tavern makes more money off alcohol than food, it still has to sell food on a to-go basis. But allowances in state regulations made tables just beyond the bar’s property lines acceptable for customers to use. BULLETIN PHOTO/Bill Pack
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Texas National Guard members stand ready to assist technicians with a trial run of a mobile COVID-19 test at Mansfield Park outside Bandera on April 28. No photos were allowed of the 45 people who arrived to actually be tested for the deadly, influenza-like virus last week, but officials said that as of Monday, May 4, no new cases of COVID-19 were identified in local testing. A second mobile testing lab for the virus is being held at Mansfield Park on Wednesday, May 6, beginning at 9 a.m. BULLETIN PHOTO/Chuck McCollough
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Traffic moves by a 35 mph Speed Limit sign installed on Highway 16 South in Bandera near the 12th Street intersection in a picture taken last week.
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