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Boerne Champion won a pair of district basketball games last week, topping Lehman on Friday and beating Veterans Memorial on Tuesday.

Boerne Champion closed out a tough week in girls soccer after the Lady Chargers suffered two district losses.

The Comfort girls basketball team dropped its last two district games held last week. The Deer were tripped up by Blanco on Tuesday and by district front-runner Lago Vista on Friday.

Comfort High traveled to Lago Vista on Friday and suffered a 50-24 loss to the Vikings.

After several residents have come forward during a range of public meetings calling for a halt on development in the city, Boerne city officials said there simply is no legal grounds to do so.

The Asian or Lunar New Year, which gets underway February 1, was celebrated in style on Saturday morning at the Patrick Heath Public Library as a traditional dragon dance and the Chinese Culture Performance Association of San Antonio enterained a welcoming audience. The dragon dance was led by members of the Boerne chapter of the Young Men’s Service League and the Boerne chapter of the National Charity League as they paraded the celebratory dragon around the library and city hall property, including along Main Street, before heading inside the library to the Community Room. The Asian dancers performed three routines for attendees, all featuring elegant costumes and movements. Star photos by Keith E. Domke

The Boerne Independent School District announced it has put emergency pay rates in place for all substitute teachers and auxiliary employees, effective immediately.

The incubator program – now known as Das Greenhaus – officially has a place to call home after the Boerne City Council unanimously approved a lease agreement last week.

Boerne’s Travis Shipman recently achieved the milestone of reading 1,000 books as part of the Patrick Heath Public Library’s Youth Department 1,000 Books Before Kindergarten program. The nationwide program encourages parents to make reading a consistent part of their young children’s lives in an effort to promote literacy and parent-child bonding through reading. Shipman joined several other Boerne youngsters who have their names on the wall of the youth department as having achieved the goal. Shipman chose to receive the book “Just Saving My Money” by Mercer Mayer as his 1,000th book reward. Information from the family stated the 3-year-old’s favorite things to read about are construction vehicles, dinosaurs and airplanes. Submitted photo

The Boerne Independent School District recently conducted its 2022 Spanish Spelling Bee for elementary and middle school students. Kendall Elementary fifth-grader Bailey Martin, pictured above left with her parents, Kasey and John Martin, took first place in the elementary division. Estrella Castro, a sixth-grader at Boerne Middle School North, pictured below left with her father, Jose Castro, earned top honors in the middle school division. Martin and Castro will represent Boerne ISD at the Region 20 Spanish Spelling Bee on February 2. Submitted photos

This past August, the Nest Nature School welcomed three classrooms full of excited 3- to 5-year-olds when the school opened its new campus at Herff Farm. As The Nest begins the enrollment season for the 2022-23 school year, the school will be opening its doors and hosting an open house on Saturday, February 5, to help interested families and community members get to know the school and its unique program a little better.

We kicked off our yearlong celebration of the library’s 70th anniversary by hosting two 1950s trivia programs.