Garden Ridge News

Residents continue to pencil their signatures on a petition to force a bond election for the proposed downtown county justice center.

County officials made their case once again for the proposed $36-million Comal County Justice Center at a public meeting in Garden Ridge Thursday night.

EDITOR'S NOTE: The following men and women are being recognized for their enlistment, promotions or duty changes within various branches of the U.S. Armed Forces.

Comal County Commissioner Jay Millikin will not seek re-election in 2010. The veteran public official said Tuesday he would forgo a possible run for county judge and 'mosey on the down the road' to retirement when his term as county commissioner expires in December of next year.

If you haven't been to Garden Ridge in Irondale you should make a point to stop buy.

If everything goes as planned, construction on the new $7.2 million Schertz recreation center should be completed by the first of year, according to the city's engineer.

'Taste' just days away The Taste of the Metrocom is coming October 14 at Live Oak Civic Center! Tickets will be on sale by the time you read this at the chamber office, Live Oak Civic Center and RE/MAX Access in Garden Ridge.

When it comes to regional commuter rail, the city of Schertz is still on board. The Schertz City Council Sept.

'People love their pets,' Chandler Gray says. She and her husband, Bob, knew this when they started their business DogWatch of Central Texas, LLC, a pet containment system, in 2004.

Tuesday ushered in some wet weather and cooler temperatures, but forecasters said it should clear up in time for the Comal County Fair Parade on Friday.

Sales tax revenues remained almost steady in New Braunfels and Comal County, but statewide Texas sales tax revenue was down 12.5 percent compared to a year ago.

Jeff Duffield, a former Schertz city councilman, checks out a book Saturday morning from library clerk Karen Bowerman at the new Schertz Public Library grand opening.

John Hezel: Helped companies build culture. John Donald Hezel Born: Sept. 10, 1934, in Creve Coeur, Mo.

Converse July 7: 700 block of South Seguin Street, someone in a red van was recorded picking the locks on vacuum machines at a car wash.

Depending on city and state approval, the Comal Independent School District hopes to start construction within the next few weeks on the new Garden Ridge elementary school.

The state's most recent monthly sales tax revenues dropped 11.2 percent from a year ago, the latest sign that the recession is infecting Texas.

A 27-year-old New Braunfels man has admitted robbing a string of banks and convenience stores, including a bank in Garden Ridge last fall, the U.S. attorney's office said.

If temperatures keep soaring into the triple digits and the Edwards Aquifer keeps dropping, Stage 3 restrictions are looming for some Metrocom communities.

From fireworks to parades to antique cars, people in the Metrocom will find plenty to do and see during the July Fourth weekend.

Madeline Anz Slay Architecture PLLC has earned a spot on the Inner City 100 list - which honors the 100 fastest-growing firms doing business in the country's inner cities.