Celebrating 126 Years of Serving the communities of Devine, Natalia, Lytle, Bigfoot, and Moore in Medina, Frio, and Atascosa Counties
On Saturday, January 13, at 9:30 a.m. the Current Events Club will be at Devine Evergreen and Saint Joseph Catholic cemeteries to pick up and dispose of the wreaths that were placed on veterans’ graves at the Wreaths Across America wreath-laying Ceremony held on December 16.
Continue reading “WREATHS ACROSS AMERICAClean-up Day set for this Saturday, Jan. 13”
#0 Mason Beaver goes for the steal with teammates #14 Cecilio DeLaGarza and #2 Ray’Sean Beaver ready on defense.
Jerel Beaty
Staff Writer
The Warhorses opened their District 29-4A campaign with consecutive losses against near-5A Pleasanton and Somerset. The Eagles defeated Devine while the Bulldogs came out on top 68-53 January 5th.
Devine played in Pearsall Tuesday night (Jan9) and look to use consecutive home games against Floresville (Jan12) and Uvalde (Jan16) as a spring-board to get them rolling the rest of the season.
Pleasanton
Devine dug a hole for themselves that they simply could not escape the rest of the game, falling behind…
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Natalia Mustangs #5 Jordan Roberts and #2 David Rodriguez on defense.
By Coach Justin Welsh
Varsity @ Poteet – January 2, 2024
On Tuesday, January 2, the Mustangs traveled to Poteet to take on the Aggies. The Mustangs would jump out to a quick 4-0 lead before the Aggies would get going. It was a back and forth 1Q but eventually the Aggies would get some stops and increase their lead to 17-11 at the end of the 1Q. The Mustangs would pick up their defensive…
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Arabian Varsity #15 Kenadi Marek goes up for a layup.
Jerel Beaty
Staff Writer
The Arabians did not spread any holiday cheer to visiting Pleasanton December 29th nor did they in Somerset January 5 as Devine laid a 58-30 thumping on the Lady Eagles prior to spanking Somerset 51-44 securing their third and fourth straight victories to begin District 29-4A action.
“We have started the second half of the season on…
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Jerel Beaty
Staff Writer
January 8 was the date of the latest Texas High School Girls Coaches Association and the Texas Association of Basketball Coaches rankings for high school teams across the state.
It is no surprise that the 17-7 Lady Pirates of Lytle cracked the Top 25 in each coming in at #16 in THGSCA and #21 in…
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Devine’s first UIL competitive cheer team competed this weekend at the UIL State National Championship in Ft Worth. Cheerleaders representing Devine’s first competitive team are: Top row: Isabell Nuncio, Kenzie Schott, Skylar Blanton, Tucker Traylor, Milynn Schnautz, Riley Wells. 2nd row: Haylee Aguirre , Kate Featherly, Yancey Parson, Naudia Wurzbach, Camryn Darby, Coach Alexandra Valdez. Bottom row: Charlee Rangel, Araceli Caceres, Hailey Eads, Darilynn García, Payton Applewhite, Katie Rios, and Angelina Garcia.
By Anton Riecher
Interim Public Works Director Robert Hernandez updated the Lytle City Council Monday on the status of city water well number two, the subject of a surprise inspection by state officials in December.
Repeated flushing has reduced the amount of oily water produced by the well, Hernandez said.
“In the beginning (Friday) it came out only for about 10 minutes,” he said. After 24 hours the water was clear enough that…
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The Lytle Animal Control will be holding a “Dog Day Out” on January 13 from 10 am to 2 pm. You are invited to join them for their FIRST Dog Day Out! Give a shelter dog a break for a few hours. You can go hiking, the park or even home!
You can sign up at https://forms.gle/9CmHLAeGgAWN5cAT7. Lytle Animal Control is located at 17971 W FM 2790 South in Lytle. You can reach them at (830) 709-3832.
In other business, the commissioners voted to accept a donation of fog seal totaling $46,738 to demonstrate its effectiveness in road building. Fog seal is an application of a specially formulated asphalt emulsion to an existing asphalt pavement surface.
Castiglione said that one of the worst things for the base structure of roadways is penetration by water.
“Fog seal can extend the life of the seal coat…
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My little one recently decided to be a “puppy for the afternoon”. As a teenager, I had several younger siblings, and I distinctly remember when they went through their “puppy phases”. I will never forget how hard I laughed as I poured a bowl of milk, and watched my pesky little sister get down on her hands and knees on our kitchen floor to lick the milk up out of the bowl like a dog. If only they had digital cameras in those days.
