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The 21st Annual Vintner Series returns at the Blair House Inn for the year 2022 as vineyards across the Hill Country look to showcase their wines.

Purveyors of all manner of tales and tunes, posey and scripted palaver will tout their talents at Story- Fest 2022 on Feb. 17-20 at five venues in Wimberley sponsored by Wimberley Valley Arts and Cultural Alliance (WVACA).

Author Visit: Gail Kittleson

Members of the UIL Academic Team competed at a meet hosted by Medina Valley HS on January 8th and won 1st Place Sweepstakes. The Texans finished first in four team events and had seven individual event winners. A full list of WHS’s results follows:

Nearly 50 activities are scheduled to kick off the 2022 Spring Events hosted by the Wimberley Community Civic Club on January 20.

Volunteers are currently needed to assist with collecting data for the annual point-in-time (PIT) count regarding the homeless population in Hays County. The count is set to take place on Jan. 27 at the San Marcos Public Library.

Hays County will be continuing countywide feral hog management efforts in 2022 after receiving a $7,500 grant from Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service Wildlife Services. The Hays County program will include a five-dollar bounty on feral hogs, one workshop, one webinar, a countywide survey and damage assessment and the continuation of a volunteer-led trapping effort.

Several dozen school districts across the state were forced to close last week due to the omicron variant of COVID-19 sending home students, staff and teachers. Most school districts planned to reopen on Tuesday following the MLK holiday.

The plant we notice in January is Cedar, especially if you are allergic to Cedar pollen that is released into the air starting in December. The native Cedar of Central Texas is Juniperus ashei. There are many kinds of cedar found throughout the world and they are all in the Cypress family. The Cypress family includes Redwoods, Sequoias and the Cypress trees found along our local waterways. The plants of the Cypress family have aromatic wood that is pest and decay resistant.

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