By Edmond Ortiz A south San Antonio park is the site of the city’s newest public dog park, and a local nonprofit has begun construction on a unique playscape in a park north of downtown. South Side dog park The San Antonio Parks and Recreation Department, the city’s capital delivery department and City Council District…
By Edmond Ortiz Voters in Bexar, Guadalupe and Kendall counties will return to the polls May 26 to settle a handful of elections that did not produce an outright winner in the March 3 Democratic and Republican primaries. Early voting begins May 18 for the following select runoff elections; the primaries determine who will run…
By Edmond Ortiz This edition of Education Briefs features a family honored in the Alamo Colleges District, a North East ISD school memorializing a late student, and Northside ISD construction students gifting a hand-built home to a veteran. Alamo Colleges District A building at the Alamo Colleges District’s headquarters now bears the name of a…
By Edmond Ortiz An industrial company based in England with worldwide reach is poised to launch operations in Schertz. What you should know RGE Group, which has focused on plastic injection molding and mold tooling since its inception in 1965, plans to open a 27,000-square-foot manufacturing facility in the Park 35 industrial park this September. …
By Edmond Ortiz The Mother’s Day weekend edition of Light Bites highlights five restaurants that are now open in the San Antonio area or are coming soon. Also, three bars are making moves in the downtown area and on the Northeast Side, a near shuttered near-West Side seafood eatery is returning, and a South Side…
By Edmond Ortiz For a second time in less than three months, the Schertz-Cibolo-Universal City Independent School District board finds itself reprimanding one of its own members. What is happening The SCUCISD board in a May 7 called meeting voted 5-1 to censure Matthew Short. Board President Leticia Sever said Short used certified mail to…
By Edmond Ortiz The city of San Antonio now has in hand two key pacts designed to advance the proposed downtown sports and entertainment district, which would be anchored by a new Spurs arena. What you should know City Council voted 10-1 May 7 to approve a contract with MuniCap Inc., a Maryland-based firm with…
Below is a list of select events taking place in the San Antonio area. Have a local event you would like Focus On San Antonio to promote? Email all the details to eortiz@journalist.com. STAGE May 7-June 7 Classic Theatre of San Antonio presents “Steel Magnolias,” the renowned tale of a group of strong, witty women…
By Edmond Ortiz New Braunfels’ incumbent mayor and a challenger who appeared to have upset him in the city’s May 2 election are exchanging words as the city proceeds to set up a runoff election to determine a winner. What is happening Michael French, a U.S. Army veteran and a former Trump White House staffer,…
By Edmond Ortiz This round of Business Briefs features the opening of a board gaming bar in New Braunfels, the launch of a new Windcrest-area thrift store, the debut of a multisports complex in Converse, and an open house at an all-inclusive/adaptive sports facility in northeast San Antonio. Plus, San Antonio is getting another multi-sports…
