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The addictive drug methamphetamine continues to rear its ugly head across Texas, and Kendall County has not been immune to what the local state district judge calls the “true pandemic” of the nation.

In effort to expand data to support county development density control, a local groundwater conservation district may be receiving an influx of funds from Kendall County commissioners to support the district’s monitor well expansion program.

Wednesday is Nonprofit Day in Boerne and Kendall County, and both the city and county recognized the occasion through the signing of proclamations declaring as such.

While gas prices nationwide dropped below $4 per gallon average last week, the state boasts the lowest prices in the country at an average of $3.49 — 50 cents below the national average, according to AAA Texas.

A 21-year-old man lost his arm in a commercial trucking accident late last month when the driver of a sanitation truck, with the fellow employee standing on the back of the unit, backed the truck into a tree, pinning the man’s arm.

One of the hundreds of nonprofits serving Kendall County and its residents is 100 Women of the Hill Country.

In an ironic twist not lost on the local groundwater district directors, a small amount of rain fell on Kendall County for the first time since the ides of July just as the Cow Creek Groundwater District considered whether to move into emergency drought stage conditions.

A letter sent to members of Tapatio Springs suggests the impacts of the June fire that destroyed the club’s spa were more widespread than initially suspected, shuttering 43 guest rooms and the Bluffs Event Center.

The first day of school went smoothly and without a hitch in the Boerne Independent School District on Wednesday as administrators and staff welcomed students at each campus.