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Halloween in Wimberley got underway last weekend with the Haunted Pioneer Town and Train Ride of Terror. A production of the Wimberley Players and 7A Ranch, the two-evening event raised goosebumps as actors portrayed resident ghosts in the streets, the shops, the graveyard, the chapel, and other locations throughout the Western-themed village. The town’s newly operational 12-gauge railroad provided visitors with a hairraising trip as ghoulish apparitions appeared along the route.

Today, pumpkins are a sign of fall and the coming holidays, and no thanksgiving table is complete without a pumpkin pie. But pumpkins have not always been associated with Thanksgiving.

Gov. Gregg Abbott and the Texas House are at loggerheads over which will come first – vouchers for parents to pay for private school tuition, or funneling more money to public schools, The Dallas Morning News reported.

The Wimberley Valley Art League held its first Blue Agave Art Fair last weekend in the Blanco Room of the Wimberley Community Center.

Hays-Caldwell Women’s Center will highlight the exceptional work of its staff, board of directors and partners to help create a safer community with the public in an annual meeting on Thursday, Nov. 9, at 6 p.m. at St. Mark’s Episcopal Church in San Marcos.

Hays County Commissioners Court honored veterans by adopting a proclamation in support of Operation Greenlight.

Commissioners Court honors local volunteer

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On Saturday, Nov. 4, Wimberley Market Day will see acres of festive sights, pleasing scents of soaps, flowers and barbeque and melodic sounds from Central Texas talent, all to usher in the upcoming holiday season.

On Nov. 11, Pitzer’s Fine Arts Gallery will celebrate its 45th year.