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Champion hosted Kerrville Tivy on Tuesday for a district baseball game and the Antlers were able to edge the Chargers and snap the team’s four-game 26-5A winning streak.

The Boerne softball team finally had the chance to play a full seven innings in a district game when the Lady Greyhounds visited Fredericksburg.

The Geneva School of Boerne baseball team had to put in some overtime on Tuesday when the Eagles visited TMI – Episcopal for a district contest.

The Comfort softball team returned to its winning ways on Tuesday after the Deer hit the road and picked up a win at Ingram.

Kindergartners and first-graders lined up to race Gobi, of the New York Times Bestselling book “Finding Gobi,” last Friday at Cibolo Creek Elementary School. The author of the best-selling children’s book, Dion Leonard, left, met his four-legged pal while on a 155-mile race through the Gobi Desert in China. Leonard, along with his wife, read the book to the students in the cafeteria before making their way outside for the race. Star photos by Zachary-Taylor Wright

The Boerne Independent School District late last month announced its 2022 teacher and support staff member of the year winners. The district teacher of the year is Jenny Breuer from Champion High School, while the district support staffer of the year is Boerne Middle School South’s Zulema King.

The countywide transportation committee made less progress finalizing its list of project and policy recommendations Tuesday as the conversation turned back to eminent domain and where the committee stands on the controversial issue.

An accident Monday afternoon left a 4-yearold child dead and a mother and two more of her children hospitalized after her vehicle inexplicably flipped along eastbound Interstate 10 on the north side of Boerne.

A 36-year-old San Antonio resident, Larry Isaac, was sentenced to 35 years in state prison last week for possessing 32 grams of methamphetamine.

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

The long-running coronavirus pandemic has fueled a lot of anxieties – including financial ones. But some people have had far fewer worries than others.

I hate writing farewell columns. I never really know what to say in them, and whatever I write never is good enough to convey the strong, personal feelings I have for the community I’m leaving.