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. CINEMA Aug. 20 San Antonio’s World Heritage Office will present a free screening of “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off” at Mission Marquee Plaza….
By Edmond Ortiz Converse City Council voted unanimously Aug. 18 to reject the construction of an asphalt manufacturing plant. Council took the city planning and zoning commission’s narrow approval of a special use permit, which was being sought to build an asphalt plant on an undeveloped tract along Farm Road 78 near the Salitrillo Creek…
By Edmond Ortiz Expected city budget moves are prompting the organizer behind one of the biggest Fiesta San Antonio events to consider some major changes going into the 2027 festival and beyond. What is happening The Conservation Society of San Antonio, the organization responsible for A Night In Old San Antonio (NIOSA), announced Aug. 19…
By Edmond Ortiz Converse, Schertz, Windcrest and the Edgewood Independent School District will have full slates of contested races in the Nov. 3 elections. Aug. 17 was the deadline for local candidates to snag a Nov. 3 election ballot spot in one of the five San Antonio-area cities and school districts slated to hold an…
By Edmond Ortiz A local nonprofit aims to boost Bexar County’s efforts to develop a system for helping young families who struggle to stay together amid personal crises. What is happening Officials with Respite Care of San Antonio said Aug. 18 that they are growing the San Antonio-area’s first crisis nursery, a safety net of…
By Edmond Ortiz The San Antonio Independent School District board voted Aug. 17 to put a property tax increase and a new bond package on the local Nov. 3 ballot. But some school board members admit the election measures will be a hard sell to voters. What is happening San Antonio ISD is joining five…
By Edmond Ortiz Voters in the Schertz-Cibolo-Universal City Independent School District will for a second straight year consider a property tax increase. The SCUCISD school board voted Aug. 17 to call the special election Nov. 3. If approved by voters, the district would raise the maintenance and operations portion of its property tax rate 12…
By Edmond Ortiz San Antonio City Council voted 6-5 Aug. 17 to nix a proposal to let San Antonio voters formally consider the city’s pledge of $489 million in specific-use funds towards construction of a new San Antonio Spurs arena downtown. What you should know Worries about the city’s $158 million budget deficit, a proposed…
By Edmond Ortiz Converse City Council meets Aug. 18 to consider permitting an asphalt plant that could arise in the middle of town. What you should know Local officials are looking at a special use permit application for an asphalt plant on a vacant 26-acre lot on Farm Road 78 between Legion Drive East and…
By Edmond Ortiz A newly adopted ordinance in Windcrest gives local police more flexibility in directly dealing with individuals who are panhandling or aggressively seeking money from local merchants and residents. But an executive leader of one San Antonio-based nonprofit that serves the homeless population says law enforcement is only one part of a larger,…
