Photo courtesy of LCRA
The Lower Colorado River Authority announced that the natural- gas fired “peaker plant” being built on the outskirts of San Marcos in Maxwell will now have double the amount of energy production as originally planned.
Two Texas State University fraternities — Phi Gamma Delta and Pi Kappa Alpha — participated in downtown city of San Marcos beautification projects on Friday in preparation for the Earth Day celebration set for Saturday, April 20. Members of the Phi Gamma Delta fraternity Kedrick Bryant, Nathan Escamilla, Kason Duncan, Sebastian Turrubiartes, Zack Johnston and Devon Guerrero donned traffic safety vests and wheelbarrows full of mulch to spread into flower beds along Hutchison and Edward Gary Streets east of the Square. “We are pulling up weeds and getting mulch,” Duncan said. “We’re making it pretty.”
Daily Record photos by Celeste Cook
BEAUTIFY SAN MARCOS
After several meetings with a large community turnout for public comments for and against the development at Lindsey Street and North Street, now being called The Mc-Lain, the development is officially approved. The San Marcos City Council approved the conditional use permit — requiring many concessions on the part of the developer, approved an amendment on the preferred scenario map on the west side of the development to High Intensity and approved the zoning change for the west side of the development to Character District-5 and Character District-5D for the east side of the development at the regularly scheduled meeting Tuesday.
Texas State University and Austin Community College District have partnered on a new Bats to Cats guaranteed transfer program to provide a clear path to both an associate and bachelor’s degree for students beginning at ACC and completing at TXST.
Christopher Morris
Morris shares the craft of creating the stage
Students learning how to apply a stucco finish have contributed to many projects around San Marcos.
Photo courtesy of Gary Job Corps
Gary Job Corps Plastering students are busy at work applying stucco finish to the Student Bank Building. To date, the students have refinished approximately 30 buildings. Over the years Nicho Garcia, the class instructor, teaches students the value of work and satisfaction of a completion of projects. The San Marcos area is a recipient for the many projects over the years including the sign at the San Marcos Chamber of Commerce, Mosaic Wall at the Lion’s Club Tube Rental, GARY intro at the Main Gate, statue bases for firemen and policemen at San Marcos City Hall, the base for the Chief Placido at San Marcos City Park, San Marcos Iris Garden and the brick on the electronic sign at the San Marcos Activity Center. The Gary crew has also assisted in construction of the San Marcos Outlet Mall, San Marcos Library, San Marcos Activity Center. Tile setting students assisted with the tile work at St. Philips College and Brook Army Medical Center in San Antonio, the Community Center in Redwood and assisted in construction of Maxwell Fire Department as well as rebuilding Education Building at Burke Center for Youth in Driftwood, just to name a few of the many projects in the Central Texas area.
Chris Johnson
Texas State University’s Christopher Johnson, a clinical professor in the Department of Sociology, joins the Big Ideas TXST podcast to discuss understanding Alzheimer’s disease as a type of time travel.
On Sunday afternoon, April 28 from 3 to 8 p.m., up the highway at exit 213, is an event so awesome it will be difficult to wait that long.
The pecking order, clockwise from the left: The Carolina wren, the scissor-tailed flycatcher, the northern cardinal and the roadrunner. All are contenders for the Texas State Bird, a title currently held by the mockingbird (not pictured).
Graphics from Metro Creative
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The Meadows Center for Water and the Environment at Texas State University will host the 11th annual Earth Day San Marcos Festival on Saturday, April 20.
Photo courtesy of the Meadow's Center for Water and the Environment
Meadows Center to Host 11th Annual Earth Day San Marcos Festival at Spring Lake
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