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For the last 50 years, the Wimberley Ace Hardware has been a pillar for the Wimberley Valley since its inception in 1972.

An epic regular season finale was on tap for the Wimberley baseball team as they squared off with the Boerne Greyhounds.

The Wimberley High School boys’ track and field team won the overall team title and the girls team finished second at the 4A-Region IV track meet on April 29-30 at Texas A&M-Kingsville.

The Wimberley softball team saw their season come to a close in the Bi-District round of the playoffs as Navarro swept the Texans in a best two out of three series with the Panthers winning Game 1 at 8-6 and winning Game 2 10-0.

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Anyone that lives, drives , bikes or walks on River Road knows that there are a lot more people that go 45-50mph than go 25mph which is the posted speed limit. Twenty-five does seem slow but there is a reason that it is set at this limit. From where you turn onto River Road ( just past the Sugar Shack) until you get to the stop sign at Wayside, it is almost exactly one mile. There are no sidewalks and in some areas very little shoulder to walk. In fact, in that one mile stretch, there is the blind curve on the hill past Creekside and the single lane bridge crossing Wilson Creek where there is no room beside the road whatsoever.

The “Battle for the Heart of Texas” documentary is set for its worldwide premiere at the EarthX Film Festival Friday May 13 in Dallas.

Although we have yet to receive a good drenching rain as of this writing (Easter weekend), some native wildflowers are blooming. One of my favorites is Pink Evening Primrose (Oenothera speciosa) that forms pink drifts along busy roadsides.

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The Wimberley High School UIL Academic Team won the regional meet held in LaVernia on April 22-23. In total, WHS students qualified for the State UIL Meet in 11 individual spots. In addition, three teams placed first in the team competitions, qualifying them to compete at the state meet as well. In all, WHS placed first at the meet, 6 points ahead of second-place Tuloso-Midway HS, to win the Academic UIL Regional Championship.