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The Texas Workforce Commission released June employment figures that showed Texas employers added nearly 56,000 jobs in June while the unemployment rate dropped to 6.5 percent.
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It’s been called one of the nation’s most powerful, uplifting and fun fundraising movements, and it now is launching a Hill Country chapter this summer as 100 Women of the Hill Country soon will open for membership. The first meeting of the Boernebased group is scheduled for 6 p.m. on August 19 in the Kendall Halle room of The Kendall, 128 W. Blanco Road.
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The Texas Department of Public Safety continues to investigate an incident that took place early Thursday that resulted in a Boerne police office fatally shooting a man.
Read moreThe San Antonio-New Braunfels metropolitan area, which includes Boerne and Kendall County, has a higher-than-average number of COVID-19 cases per 100,000 people compared to the rest of the United States, data from last week showed.
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Frank Graves, noted local expert on American percussion firearms, a member of the invitation-only American Society of Arms Collectors and a 50-year student of early Colt revolvers, discussed the Battle of Walker’s Creek and the impact the Colt revolver had on the brief battle during a Saturday presentation at the Kuhlmann King Museum Complex in Boerne. Graves said at the time of the 1844 battle in the Sisterdale area between Texas Rangers and local American Indians, Colt Paterson had filed for bankruptcy after his five-shot revolver failed to become popular. However, when the Rangers used it in the Battle of Walker’s Creek, which was a lopsided victory for the Texas group, word quickly spread about the gun’s effectiveness and helped launch the revolver and Paterson to stardom. TOP: Graves points a rifle revolver as he explains why it didn’t gain popularity. TOP RIGHT: Graves shows how the Rangers and other people had to duck under their horse’s neck and aim the gun while leaning in their saddle. RIGHT: Graves displays two of the revolvers while he talks to the audience. LEFT: Graves puts his collection of historic guns on display shortly before he starts one of his talks. Star photos by Keith E. Domke
Read moreHome sales in Kendall County were unchanged from June 2020 with a total of 87 homes sold in June 2021, according to the Multiple Listing Service Report from the San Antonio Board of Realtors (SABOR). Both average and median homes sales prices in the area rose 25.1 percent to $595,874 and $487,000, respectively.
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Carlin Friar, Place 1 trustee for the Boerne Independent School District, tried on a new hat Wednesday in his new role as chairperson of the Boerne Ethics Review Commission, where he will head a group of residents that investigate ethics complaints against city officials, should one ever come forward.
Read moreGov. Greg Abbott said this week he will not impose another statewide mask mandate, despite COVID-19 cases being on the rise again.
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