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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.

The city of Wimberley was officially designated a Texas Music Friendly Community on Friday night by the Texas Music Office.

Traveling around the world with music, the Hill Country Community Band will transport listeners to “Faraway Places” at their concert on Saturday, May 21. The concert, free to all, will take place at 2 p.m. at the Wimberley First Baptist Church. The Band is directed by Dr. Manuel Arambula.