New Braunfels News

For her students, Barbara Rector wielded tough love, respect and peace in the classroom.

The New Braunfels Senior Center and The Scooter Store is sponsoring a free Thanksgiving Dinner for seniors today.

Big changes are afoot at area military bases and Brig. Gen. Leonard Patrick, Commander of the 502nd Air Base Wing, paid a visit to the New Braunfels Chamber of Commerce on Friday to talk about it.

Prepare to bundle up for Thanksgiving as a cold front heads this way. After a full day of rain Thursday, the weather will warm up and the sky will clear for the weekend, but that will change Monday.

An estimated 1,500 people watched Friday as 1,500 Christmas lights brightened the night and the spirits of those who came to celebrate the annual downtown holiday kickoff.

The gymnasium at Seele Elementary was transformed into a living museum of New Braunfels history Friday.

Sister M. Scholastica Friesenhahn, 89, of Victoria, died Nov. 18, 2009. She was born Feb.

Law enforcement officials are warning hotel guests to be leery of callers seeking credit card information after attempted scams on Thursday.

Development firm Barshop & Oles has begun work on its latest retail project. Known as WestPointe Village, the project will span 50 acres of land at State Highway 46 and Loop 337 in the city of New Braunfels, which is located just north of San Antonio.

First English Lutheran Church, 440 Garfield Ave., welcomed its new pastors, the Revs.

About 15,000 lights will switch on as Santa Claus arrives at the Main Plaza tonight for the 41st annual tree lighting in New Braunfels.

Construction began Thursday at the Westpointe Village shopping center - soon to be home to the city's second H-E-B. Perched on the southwest corner of Loop 337 and State Highway 46, developers said the future grocery store and retail center could welcome shoppers by late summer or early fall 2010.

New Braunfels attorney Glen Peterson and his supporters delivered a petition with more than 6,000 signatures Monday to the Comal County Clerk's office to force an election in May in order to give taxpayers a say in the expenditure of $36 million for a proposed justice center in New Braunfels.

The annual Weihnachtsmarkt to support the Sophienburg Museum and Archives opens Friday at the New Braunfels Civic Convention Center for three days of shopping, events and fun.

Despite increased pumping fees from the Edwards Aquifer Authority, New Braunfels Utilities officials said Wednesday they don't expect the added costs to trickle down to customers this year.

The downtown implementation plan for the City of New Braunfels continues to take shape, and officials said Tuesday they hope to have their road map toward downtown revitalization in place by January.

A New Braunfels man was hospitalized and police were still searching for suspects Tuesday after an early morning shooting on Guenther Avenue.

It doesn't take a five-star kitchen to create a feast. In fact, for the creative chef, it doesn't take much of a kitchen at all.

New Braunfels police are looking for information related to a shooting that injured a 28-year-old man early Tuesday morning.

After a 30-day petition drive collected more than 3,000 signatures above the necessary threshold to force an election, the downtown justice center's fate is closer than ever to being decided at the ballot box.