Points of View, the first Spanish international documentary festival taking place at Texas State, has extended its entry deadline to March 15. The winners of the festival will receive a prize and exposure on HITV.

A Staples woman was sentenced last week in a 2008 smuggling case that originated with a search of a San Marcos mobile home that turned up about two dozen aliens from Honduras, El Salvador, Mexico and Nicaragua. The aliens were being forcibly detained pending payment of smuggling fees by family and friends.

The law firm Braun & Associates, with an office in Dripping Springs, has announced the addition of Susana Canseco as an associate attorney.

The term “Hispanic Heritage Month” is a bit misleading. It certainly is a month-long celebration, but the event spans the two months of September and October. The LBJ Museum of San Marcos has an exhibit which celebrates the month with fascinating history.

H-E-B leadership and representatives of the Hays County Food Band will get together on Sept. 15 at 9 a.m. at the big H-E-B, 641 East Hopkins, for a formal $5,000 check presentation ceremony honoring the successful finish of the Texas grocer’s Help End Hunger campaign for the year, which started in the spring of 2009.