Tuesday was Read Across America Day and Boerne ISD’s Fair Oaks Ranch Elementary School celebrated by encouraging students and staff to dress as Dr. Seuss characters. Several youngsters in Krista Kinball’s third-grade class did just that as part of their curriculum centered on Seuss and his characters. TOP: Twins George (foreground) and Hunter Temple, dressed as the Cat in the Hat, work on an assignment while sitting at their desks. LEFT: Allie O’Farrell, dressed as Horton and a classmate dressed as Cindy Lou the Who, play a learning game. BELOW: Gray Collins as Thing 1 and Nina Griffin as Thing 2 get a little silly as they pose for a picture.

Just as the rolling blackouts across the state stopped and the snow and ice from the winter storm that crippled the Hill Country the past week began to melt, water became the source of concern for the city of Boerne and a few neighborhoods in Fair Oaks Ranch. Usage spiked, mainly because of burst pipes and dripping faucets.

In the 1954 holiday movie classic “White Christmas,” the film’s four main characters sing a song together while they’re en route on a train from Florida to Vermont.

The world may have felt like it stopped turning for the majority of Hill Country residents when this week’s winter storm hit on Valentine’s Day. But for one 7-pound, 14-ounce young man, the icy world has just started spinning.

Former Boerne and Champion High School coach and current Athletic Director Stan Leech has been named one of the 20 Greatest Texas High School Basketball Coaches in history by the University Interscholastic League.