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After 8,343 Kendall County residents cast their ballots, or about 29 percent of the total number of registered voters, Shane Stolarcyzk and Chris Taylor came away as the top two county judge candidates and will face off in a runoff election May 24.

About 30 people crowded the training room at the Boerne Police Department on a sunny Sunday afternoon late last month, all gathering to honor a young Boy Scout’s promotion to Eagle Scout status.

Andra Wisian took a strong lead in the polls in Tuesday’s GOP March primary and is set to face off against Leon Brimhall in a May 24 runoff election for the Kendall County Precinct 2 commissioner seat.

Chad Carpenter took the only definite win of the three Kendall County commissioners’ seats on the March primary ballot, taking the Republican nomination for the Precinct 4 commissioner seat.

Boerne resident Adam Rule surprised his longtime girlfriend, Stacy Mikes, who is a police officer in San Antonio, by proposing to her at the gazebo on Main Street last weekend. Rule decorated the gazebo with flowers for the proposal. Mikes said yes. Star photo by Zachary-Taylor Wright

Dave Neighbor will be the Republican Party’s candidate for justice of the peace in Kendall County in Precinct 2.

Kendall County Republicans will have a new face and a familiar one on their November ballot in the race to see who will represent them at the Capitol in Austin next year.

Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night …

It seems that the Washington bureaucracy is always a day late and a dollar short. A recent Gallup poll shows 70 percent of Americans think the pandemic is over; 89 percent of Republicans think so.

Join the partners at Carriage House Gallery of Artists from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Saturday, March 5, to celebrate Bonnie Mann’s lovely artwork and to learn about her inspiration and techniques.

For this month’s life skill, career/money management, the following words by Martin Luther King Jr. offer a clear mantle for living our core values both professionally and personally. You will then be a better doctor, better lawyer, better teacher, better husband, wife, father mother.

Editor’s note: This is a reprinted column from Jack Purcell’s “On the Journey” archives. It originally appeared in The Star in 2013.