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Dawn 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?”
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Spooky Month is here! Come by the library to get your fill of Halloween movies and horror fiction.
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Editor’s Note: The following is an election announcement from a local candidate. The Bulletin grants local candidates one election announcement free of charge, with all following election materials charged an ad fee.
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Bandera American Legion Auxiliary Open Car Show drew 16 beautiful classic cars from all over the county to the Hevenor’s Lumber Parking Lot on Sunday afternoon.
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.
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