AUSTIN — Texas, along with the rest of the nation and the world, continued to battle the COVID-19 pandemic last week as cases and deaths attributed to the novel coronavirus increased.
Gov. Greg Abbott on May 7 met with President Trump in the White House. The president praised Abbott’s leadership in handling the months-long medical emergency and in managing the resulting slowdown of the economy in the Lone Star State.
Abbott said Texas has one of the lowest COVID-19 death rates in the ...
Each spring, usually around the end of April and well into May, shad move to the shallows to spawn and the first couple of daylight often produces line stretching action on every game fish species in the lake. Catfish, white bass, hybrids and stripers and largemouth bass move into the shallows to feed on the easy pickings.
A fishing trip this past week with Cedar Creek Lake guide Jason Barber proved this statement to be spot on.
AUSTIN– Texas community banks, through the Texas Bankers Association and its charitable arm, the Texas Bankers Foundation, is partnering with Feeding Texas to launch the Texas Banks 4 Food Banks program during the COVID-19 emergency. The Foundation is initially contributing a total of $26,000 to the Feeding Texas network of 21 food banks that serve all 254 Texas counties, and banks will be amplifying the program with additional donations and advocacy for the food banks.
“Community banke ...
Hill Country Memorial (HCM) has joined the HASA Health Information Exchange (HIE) for North, South, and West Texas.
HASA is a non-profit, Texas-based, multi-region collaboration building a secure infrastructure between healthcare providers’ electronic health records (EHRs), making it possible to exchange information across differing platforms.
This connection enables local health care providers and patients to access electronic patient records with other participating health care provid ...
As of Monday morning, April 27, Texas has recorded over 23 thousand confirmed COVID-19 cases. Nearly ten thousand people have recovered, but over 600 have died.
While we remain in the grip of this virus, it’s a good idea to revisit some of the following pointers on helping people who live with Alzheimer’s or other dementia to safely weather the storm.
Persons living with dementia may need reminders regarding:
• Hand-washing and moisturizing.
It seemed only natural that a visit to Gillespie County by the guy about to become the most powerful man in the free world coincided with the opening of deer season although I do have trouble seeing John Fitzgerald Kennedy of Massachusetts sitting in a Hill Country deer blind dressed in camo soaked in Buck Bomb.
Kennedy was young, handsome, charismatic, Harvard-educated and a member of one of America’s wealthiest East Coast families.
Theodore Roosevelt’s 1904 presidential address to Congress is famous for bringing us the Roosevelt Corollary, which warned European nations from involving themselves in the affairs of Latin America. What is not as well-known is a small paragraph sandwiched between two other issues. In the address Roosevelt said: “It is desirable to enact a proper national quarantine law.
GILLESPIE– On Saturday evening, at around 9:26 p.m, the Gillespie County Sheriff’s Office and Fredericksburg Fire & EMS responded to a report of vehicle that had been swept away by fast-moving water at the Pedernales River crossing on Alfred Petsch Road.
Upon arriving at the location, emergency personnel learned that there had been four occupants in the vehicle.
Reader Alert: Beginning Tuesday, March 17, 2020, all local Social Security offices nationwide were closed to in-person visits and have asked those who need assistance to call your local Social Security office or Social Security’s 800 number at 1/800-772-1213 for assistance by phone. There is not a specified reopen date for local Social Security offices currently.
Toni:
I must have missed this when listening to the national media coverage of the Coronavirus, but no one has explained ho ...
To address a critical need for blood in the area, Hill Country Memorial and the South Texas Blood & Tissue Center will hold a blood drive on Wednesday, April 1, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the HCM Wellness Center, 1006 South State Hwy. 16 in Fredericksburg.
Deena Todd, Clinical Lab Manager, noted that the hospital hosted a blood drive on February 27, but another is needed due to a shortage of people donating out of fears surrounding the COVID-19 outbreak.
“People have just been afraid to ...
