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Emily Thames landed a hat trick on the way to leading the Lady Texans to victory in the first district game of the year.

Inarguably the most important game of the season, the Texans boys basketball team defeated the Bandera Bulldogs 73-53 to keep their hopes of a district championship alive.

The Wimberley Texan soccer team started out district play with a win over Canyon Lake.

It is with a sad heart that I first learned of the terrible accident that befell my friend Marilee Wood and then went on to take her life. You have no further to look than to the late 90’s in local history to the year 2000 when Wimberley became Incorporated, Marilee was a leader in Wimberley becoming an organized community in more ways than I can or could ever list here. She earned her place in our history and then continued to solidify it in every way possible.

As Professional Educators, we have learned there are two sides to every story, and it’s important to listen to both sides. Both sides, generally, think they are correct in their thinking.

The board of trustees for Katherine Anne Porter School seems prepared to turn the KAP School into Premier Wimberley. This is a tragedy and a gift of a very valuable piece of real estate to a charter management company with no history of supporting the cultural arts curriculum. They have no plan to provide anything that Katherine Anne Porter stood for. It would be spitting in her face after de cades of sacrifice and commitment.

To say the new Supper Club just off the Wimberley Square is a beehive of activity would be an understatement.

Felix T. Jacks is one of the newest stores in the Wimberley Valley that is opened to the public.

Alzheimer’s Caregivers Support Group

Calling all Sweethearts! Al Dressen’s Super Swing Revue is tuning up for their Feb. 12 appearance at the Wimberley Community Center. Hailed as the best country and western swing dance band in Texas, the Revue played its first gig at the Broken Spoke in July 1982. Bandleader and vocalist Al Dressen, who was inducted into the Texas Western Swing Hall of Fame in 2009, says “This is Western Swing like it’s supposed to sound.” Designated as the official musical style of Texas, the genre is a fusion of many styles.