Selma News

A North Central San Antonio church is not giving up on its plans to buy a Selma amphitheater, despite an unsuccessful attempt to obtain financing for it.

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A San Antonio community church is not giving up on its plans to buy a Selma amphitheater, despite an unsuccessful attempt to obtain financing for it.

A family's Northeast Side home caught fire early Friday. The flames broke out around 5:00 a.m. on Bluffside, between Interstate 35 and Lookout Road.

The City Council approved offering a pre-paid program for ambulance service to residents, moving forward with a sweeping residential survey and giving the green light for going after at least $50,000 in federal stimulus funds.

Faced with a pending deadline and no commercial lender willing to work a deal, River City Community Church canceled plans to buy the former Verizon Wireless Amphitheater in Selma, where it had hoped to relocate from its land-locked corner on the city's Northeast Side.

A resolution supported by the city of Selma that calls for public property to be withheld from the national historical register if an entity so desires, has one local preservationist concerned about its impact on historical preservation.

Selma officials will have to look for other ways to fund the restoration of a historic property after residents last week rejected a $2 million bond issue.

Several area communities conducted elections Tuesday, with Schertz, Selma, Natalia and Windcrest considering financial issues and Von Ormy filling three alderman seats.

Oak Hills Church in San Antonio, where renowned author Max Lucado delivers sermons, several years ago faced a situation of overcrowding.

If you weren't one of the 2,411 Guadalupe County residents who voted early in Tuesday's Constitutional Amendment election, county officials want to make sure you know that on election day, you must vote in your precinct - and that some have been consolidated because of the anticipated low turnout.

As the new president for the Schertz Chamber of Commerce, I would like to commend the board of directors for such a thorough interviewing process in filling this position.

Selma residents will head to the polls Tuesday to decide whether they want to pay to turn a historic property into a community park, while Schertz residents will determine whether they want to pay more for recycling.

Local officials are hoping an agreement with Guadalupe County to improve a roadway, which connects FM 1518 to Schertz Parkway, will spark development of a moribund subdivision located along the road.

Be sure to check the mail today. Guadalupe County Tax Assessor-Collector Tavie Murphy's office has processed tax statements to nearly 78,000 county taxpayers - and they'll begin hitting mailboxes this morning.

If you think traffic is bad on 1604 now, just wait. Traffic planners say in the last 30 years, the city of Selma has grown by nearly 800 percent, Shavano Park has increased 122 percent and San Antonio has seen a 71 percent boost in population.

The county's election workers are settled into their new headquarters on South Milam Street.

We are still having trouble getting our mail forwarded to our new address, we have tried to keep our mail coming, but for some reason we have had our issues.

Looking for the burial cemetery of Alpha Sparks Blake-Clampitt. She died in 1953 in Selma,Texas. I would also like to know of her husband...Gilbert Ellison Clampitt's burial.

We had another great chamber month, but there is still one remaining issue from our move: We are STILL not getting forwarded mail.