CCFVTF’s 7th Aunnual Community and Professional Education Conference
What: Domestic Violence: Myths and Misconceptions
When: October 17, 2008
9:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Where: First Lockhart Baptist Church
318 W Prairie Lea
Lockhart, TX 78644Lockhart, TX - To recognize October as Domestic Violence Awareness Month, the Caldwell County Family Violence Task Force is hosting their Seventh Annual Community and Professional Educational Conference on Family Violence. The Caldwell County Family […]
Citizen Police Academy Class to start September 4
San Marcos residents are invited to sign up for the Citizens Police Academy, a free 12-week course exploring the responsibilities and operations of the San Marcos Police Department.
The San Marcos Police Department will start Class # 24 on Thursday, September 4 at 6 p.m. More than 325 residents have taken the course since the […]
Officer in dog death gets oral reprimand, counseling
San Marcos Police Department has completed their investigation of a traffic stop that ended with the death of a dog. Local resident Michael Gonzalez and his girlfriend, Krystal Hernandez, were rushing their teacup poodle, Missy, to a veterinary clinic in New Braunfels to save their life-threatened “baby”.
Officer Paul Stephens pulled Gonzalez over for speeding on […]
Newstreamz.com will print updates of dropped charges or not guilty verdicts upon request. Send requests with appropriate documentation and working daytime phone number to cops@newstreamz.com or by fax to (512) 392-5132.
•12:50 p.m. August 19. Criminal Mischief, 508 Hines St. Reported.
•5:46 p.m. August 19. Assault Causes Injury/FV, 927 Hwy 80. Reported.
•6:35 p.m. August 19. Warrant Service, […]
Eighteen wheeler hits gas pump at local gas station
According to a bystander, an 18-wheeler struck a gas pump at the corner of Moore and Hopkins causing one the fuel pumps to catch on fire. More information as it becomes available.
Photos courtesy of John Dunn
Foster-Hylton finishes sixth in 100-meter hurdles final at Olympics
San Marcos, Texas- Former Texas State All-American Brigitte Foster-Hylton registered a sixth-place finish in the women’s 100-meter hurdles final at the XXIX Olympic Games in Beijing, China.
Running out of lane nine for the island of Jamaica, Foster-Hylton finished the race with a time of 12.66 seconds, one-hundredth of a second behind her teammate Delloreen Ennis-London […]
City asks to use Cape Road bridge funds for McCarty
Posted on November 23, 2007 at 6:28 pm • Print • Share
The city may use money planned for replacing one of the worst bridges in the state for another project. It’s probably not as stupid as it sounds.
By BRAD ROLLINS
Managing Editor
The city may divert money slated for reinforcing the Cape Road bridge at the San Marcos River to replace drainage culverts on McCarty Lane instead.
In March 2006, officials committed to spending $166,304 in city dollars as its share of replacing the bridge where Cape Road crosses the river’s main channel at Thompson’s Islands. Under a federal program for replacing deficient “off-system” bridges, the city would pay 10 percent, the state 10 percent and the federal government 80 percent.
But a change in state law effective Sept. 1 allows cities to apply for a waiver of the local match on bridge projects if they spend the same amount on other bridges or low-water crossings that need work. The city council voted unanimously on Tuesday to ask TxDOT to allow San Marcos to spend its local money on replacing two 30-inch culverts where McCarty Lane crosses Cottonwood Creek, between Interstate 35 and Hunter Road.
Built without guardrails and shoulders, the Cape Road structure is one of the worst bridges in the state, according to Texas Department of Transportation’s rating system. It scored two out of a possible 100 placing in the bottom ten of 2,024 bridges deemed structurally deficient by TxDOT inspectors.
Under any scenario, the Cape Road improvements appear years away. TxDOT spokesman Marcus Cooper told the San Marcos daily in August that the project will be funded by the state sometime in the next 10 years but is not considered pressing because the bridge is structurally sound. The bridge is ranked so low because it does not have guardrails and shoulders and because erosion could cause future problems, Cooper said.
brad@newstreamz.com
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