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An accident Tuesday morning in the 38500 block of eastbound Interstate 10 left 48-year-old Kerrville resident Jeremy McGee dead.

Champion High School Seniors Ethan Thornton and Halle Vandersloot have been named 2022 National Merit Scholarship finalists by the College Board. The National Merit Scholarship Program is an academic competition that recognizes students for their outstanding performance on the Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test. Thornton and Vandersloot are among 15,000 students in the United States who qualified as finalists, which places them in the top 1 percent of all students nationwide who completed the PSAT. Typically, more than 1.5 million students in about 21,000 high schools enter the National Merit Scholarship Program each year. Thornton will attend MIT after graduation and Vandersloot will head to Texas A&M.

Fair Oaks Ranch Rotarians and guests gathered earlier this month at the Fair Oaks Ranch Golf & Country Club for a meeting and luncheon to recognize the 10th anniversary of the club’s founding. It was 2012 when 39 service-minded community leaders came together to form an organization committed to the international humanitarian service group’s motto, Service Above Self. Several charter members were in attendance, many of whom are still active, and they were honored for their years of contributions. The club’s first president, Kathy Hubbard, and current President Greg Maxton welcomed guest speaker Rotary Past District Governor Lisa Herring. Herring had presided over the 2012 formal installation ceremony. Pictured are, from left, club charter members Fran Driskell, Will Winslett, Kathy Hubbard, Cheryl Landman, Bill Fusco, Debbie Williams Martin, Tom McKeown, Jackson Moss, Jim Wade, Darrell Sawyer (wife Penny), Linda Tom (husband Jim), John Wall, Charles Pearson and John Rogers. Submitted photo

Sponsored by the Kendall County Historical Commission, on March 30, Frank Graves, an early American percussion firearms expert, will present “Rifles and pistols used in early Boerne history including the rifle patent of Boerne gunsmith E.A.F. Toepperwein.”

A new children’s choir has started in Boerne – the Omnia Youth Chorale. Singers are between 9-18 years old and come from throughout the Boerne and San Antonio area.

Jack Myers, 88, of Boerne, Texas, passed away on March 20, 2022. Services will be held on Friday, March 25, 2022, at 2 p.m. at the Boerne Cemetery on 700 North School St.

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

Ah, yes – another edition of editor wanderings…

Democrats nationally have made great progress in President Biden’s first year in office.

It’s unfortunate but true: If you’re a woman, you face more obstacles than men in achieving financial security. And that means you may well need to put in some extra effort.

“Science has never drummed up quite as effective a tranquilizing agent as a sunny Spring day.” W. Earl Hall as quoted in the Reader’s Digest, 1959 (and I might include a warm starry spring night).

Gallery 195 is celebrating its fifth anniversary on the Hill Country Mile with an open house from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. on Friday and Saturday, April 1-2.