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Our sister newz agency - BanderaProphet.Com covered the Bandera League of Women voters questions to local candidates with Q & A and here are the results.  Click for more on this story.  

A long-awaited return to the traditional Chili Cookoff hosted for many years by the American Legion Post 410 in Lakehills is scheduled for 10/25/25 after a hiatus due to the Covid-Restrictions.  The well-attended and spicy event returns.  For more on this event and to register, click here.  

Bandera County Fire Marshal and Bandera County Judge have mandated the return of the county-wide burn ban which prohibits outside burning.

Click here to read the order.

Click here to learn how to be "fire-safe" when on your own property or traveling.  

The Arthur Nagel Community Clinic is starting a new support group, Life After Loss, to help people who are grieving find comfort, support, and healing.  For more information about this endeavor, please click here.      

Will it take away the mystique that is what makes downtown Bandera a "Cowboy Capital"?   Bandera City Council members have plans underway to form a committee regarding a full-time facility to safely hitch horses in a secure area downtown.   Diana Walters, representing the Bandera Equine Posse, proposed The Bandera Livery, so vistors to the historic district could shop, eat and visit on foot, while their horses would securely rest in a shaded, gated area, with access to water.  Click here for more on this story.   

From dire service in Vietnam, World War II Service, and even a bull attacking a patrol car, Bandera County Veterans have poignant stories to tell.  The local Bandera Prophet has a strong commitment to the military and to the Veteran stories.  Click here to learn about the exposure that Bandera County Veterans, active-duty assignments of Bandera County residents and other military updates including Veterans stories.  

As a Veteran, the Bandera Prophet would like to hear your story.   Please join this great storytelling archive!   Click here to hear the Veteran stories or to get more information.  

Click here to read about how in a clash of titans that lived up to its billing, the Bandera Bulldogs (5-0) secured a thrilling 26-25 victory over the rival Hondo Owls (4-1) on Friday night. Heading into the contest, the stakes were high, with both teams carrying perfect records and a top-10 city ranking—KSAT 12 had the undefeated Hondo Owls ranked #3 in their Sub-5A poll, while the Bulldogs checked in at #8. The game was an instant classic, with Bandera's defense delivering a game-sealing fourth-down stop in the final 2 minutes to ensure the dramatic, one-point win. 

 “It takes a whole community to come together to solve a problem. We have to realize the importance of collective action,” Don’t Make Waste Bandera founder and volunteer Robert Brischetto said during a volunteer appreciation and recruitment reception on Sunday.   This group did exactly that.  Click here for more on this story.  

Where is Jordan Tomkins?  Jordan Tomkins was walking alone along Park Road 37 in Lakehills in April 2022.  She vanished three years ago without a trace, and still hasn't been found.  For more details on this story, click here.  It's time to talk.  

Bandera County commissioners approved the installation of a plaque commemorating LeStourgeon Masonry for stone and block work on the Justice Center building. The request was brought by Cecil LeStourgeon, who did the stone work on the county building in 2009.   Click here for the full story.  

Here is all the information you need about the San Antonio City Public Service's plan to push transmission lines through Bandera County, which is now opposed by the Bandera County Commissioners.  You can read more about that opposition here.

Open houses are now scheduled to discuss how to protest these CPS lines.  Click here for more.  

CPS Energy and AEP Texas are proposing to construct approximately 370 miles of new transmission infrastructure connecting the CPS Energy Howard Road Station in Bexar County to the AEP Texas Solstice Station in Pecos County, as part of the proposed Howard Solstice 765 kV Transmission Line Project. The project is intended to connect substations to support the regional electric grid. Multiple potential routes are being evaluated, some of which pass through portions of Bandera County. 

Click here to learn more about this directly from the CPS website.

Don't agree?  Then you can voice your complaints which is highly recommended:  

 CPS Energy
Antonio DeMendonca
S&T Regulatory Support Project Manager 
Howard-Solstice Transmission Line Project 
Mail Code RT0801 
500 McCullough Ave. 
San Antonio, Texas 78215 
210-353-6673, Option 7
Howard-SolsticeProject@cpsenergy.com

AEP Texas
Michael Harris
Lead Outreach Specialist
833-329-4865
AEPTexasOUtreach@AEP.com