A rundown of San Marcos Daily Record stories the editor wrote between May 2006 and September 2007 on Hays County’s roads agreement with the state transportation department.

EDITOR’s NOTE: Mean-spirited Dripping Springs-area curmudgeon CHARLES O’DELL is a retired grocer, a self-styled community activist and an erudite expert on economics, law, real estate development, environmental protection, urban planning, philosophy, acquatic biology, government, politics, fashion and oratory. Bravely battling a terminal case of Napoleonic Syndrome, O’Dell typically traffics in convoluted conspiracy theories like this [...]

“It’s getting to such a point where … every state and federal dollar we have will be needed just for maintenance and rehabilitation”
– BOB DAIGH, TxDOT’s Austin district engineer, on the worsening gap between identified road needs and available revenue. Read the story»

Firefighters from three counties are wrapping up control of a grass fire that burned an undetermined amount of land in Comal and Guadalupe counties on San Marcos’ southern periphery.

In a rare unanimous decision, Hays County commissioners voted this morning to “conceptually” accept a reworked roads package from the state transportation department.

By MICHAEL WRIGHT
Sports Reporter
NACOGDOCHES – The Texas State (10-10, 3-4) men’s basketball team started off strong but eventually fell to the Lumberjacks from Stephen F. Austin (16-3, 4-2), 81-63 Wednesday night at the William R. Johnson Coliseum. The Bobcats have now lost 10 of their last 11 games and their seventh [...]

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From Texas State University News Service
Texas State University’s theatre and dance department presents Shelagh Stephenson’s bittersweet play, “Memory of Water” Feb. 7-10.
Directed by Debbie Swan, performances will be Feb. 7-9 at 7:30 p.m. with a 2 p.m. matinee performance Feb. 10 at the PSH Foundation Studio Theatre in the Theatre Center on campus.
Memory of Water [...]