Wilson County News

The Children’s Alliance of South Texas-A Child Advocacy Center (CAST-CAC), invites community donations toward two upcoming awareness and fundraising events. Proceeds from the events help CAST-CAC to provide services for child abuse survivors across the 81st Judicial District — Atascosa, Frio, Karnes, La Salle, and Wilson counties. •Trunk or Treat donations needed — Bags of individually wrapped can...

The St. Mary’s University School of Law, in collaboration with the Archdiocese of San Antonio and the Catholic Lawyers’ Guild, will host the 74th annual Red Mass on Thursday, Oct. 22, at San Fernando Cathedral. This time-honored tradition serves as a spiritual gathering for the legal community of the San Antonio area, signaling the start of the judicial year. The event begins at 5:45 p.m. with a c...

The Wilson County Memorial Hospital District — which governs Connally Memorial Medical Center in Floresville — is among 68 Texas rural healthcare providers to receive funding through the first round of the Rural Texas Strong grant awards. The funding, announced Sept. 28 by Gov. Greg Abbott, provides million in federal funding through the Texas Health and Human Services Commission (HHSC) to eligibl...

The Texas Veterans Commission (TVC) and the Veteran Tickets Foundation (Vet Tix) have announced a new statewide collaboration to expand access to recreational opportunities and connect more Texas veterans, service members, and their families with resources and support. Through a newly signed memorandum of understanding, the two organizations will leverage their respective networks to increase awar...

Dear Dave, How important is saving money when you’re young and have a good income? If you’re just saving it, you’re not really doing anything with it, right? So, what good is money if you don’t actually use it for something? Garrett Dear Garrett, I’m going to shoot straight with you. It worries me that you seem to think that you’re not doing anything with your money when you save it. Saving money...

Area law-enforcement agencies have reported the following recent activity: Editor’s Note: All individuals arrested and charged are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law beyond a reasonable doubt. Floresville Police Department •Oct. 4, Dominic L. Carvajal, 27, of Floresville was arrested following a traffic stop at the intersection of B and Third streets. The officer conducting th...

The following defendants were among those listed on recent dockets for the 81st District Court in Wilson County: •Anthony A. Sloan, 49, of Floresville was charged with assault of a family or household member with a previous conviction, after allegedly using his hand to strike a woman with whom he had a dating relationship in November 2023. He waived his right to a jury trial and pleaded nolo conte...

View WCN’s video coverage of these meetings online at wilsoncountynews.com/meeting-coverage/: Commissioners Court, Oct. 12 Stockdale Independent School District Meeting: Special meeting, Sept. 29, 5:15-7:49 p.m., executive session 5:16-7:48 p.m. Actions: •Approved, following a closed session with legal counsel, to authorize supplemental duty pay for the acting superintendent; this will be the diff...

Marketplace News is a feature of WCN Advertising. To learn more about this service, call 830-216-4519 or email kristen@mywcn.com. What began as a floral business has now grown into something bigger — and unique! Viv’s Victorian Country in Karnes City opened in 1971 as a flower shop. And while owner Vivian Janysek, a Texas Certified Master Florist, still offers flowers for all occasions, you’ll fin...

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The Roger Winkler Memorial Foundation makes a donation to the Poth Volunteer Fire Department during its annual BBQ dinner fundraiser on Sept. 27. Dillion Zaiontz, Mike Candela, Matthew Jarzombek, Clifton Zaiontz, Carlos Herrera, Russell Dzuik, David Leal, Chris Kotara, Derek Dzuik, Chase Alexander, John Bodden IV, Derek Olivo, and Clarence Hosek accept the donation from Becky Winkler Morton (cente...

Congratulations to Heather Johns, Poth Junior High School librarian, on being named the Educator of the Quarter in the contest sponsored by the Wilson County News and Firstmark Credit Union! Johns was surprised with the news of her win at the Sept. 18 Poth High School pep rally. She was nominated by Jenny Holloway, who said Johns does “a phenomenal job as the district librarian.” “She welcomes eve...

Editor: For generations, the Tackitt family lived, worked, gathered, and served the community at an ice house on C.R. 128 in Calaveras. Family history traces the site to my great-great-grandfather, Josephus “Papa Joe” Tackitt, who established an ice pond that became known as Calaveras Grocery. My great-grandparents, Roland “Big Daddy” Tackitt and Laura “Tuff” Tackitt, were later part of the family...

The one thing you can’t make when you get old is old friends. Pam Fleischaker was one of my oldest friends. We met more than 40 years ago as two young political activists. She commuted from Oklahoma City to help run the Democratic Platform Committee for Geraldine Ferraro. She was a charter member of the “A Team,” a band of feminists determined to get a woman on the ticket. She raised money for wom...

Editor: To all the low-income folks out here, do you remember how the Democrats put the illegals ahead of you? Busing them to big cities, lavish hotel rooms paid for by taxpayers, fine dining, and thousands of dollars for spending while the American citizen was forgotten? Maybe you watched the State of the Union speech where Trump said that if you put American citizens ahead of illegals, stand up....

Editor: As the daughter of an elementary schoolteacher from Stockdale, I would like to encourage your readers in Wilson County to vote for James Talarico for the U.S. Senate in the upcoming midterm election. A former middle school teacher himself, he is a strong defender of public education who has spoken out forcefully against the voucher program that is currently destroying our public schools, w...

Editor: Forget that James Talarico is a “Christian who hates Christianity,” believes “Abba” and “our Father who art in Heaven” is non-binary, believes there are six genders, and attends a church whose head pastor does not believe in the virgin birth and the associate pastor is a lesbian that states that Talarico is back-tracking his true beliefs until after the election. Forget the fact that Talar...

Editor: Geoffrey Hinton, the Nobel laureate often called the “godfather of AI,” now puts the odds of AI causing human extinction at 10 to 20 percent. Evan Hubinger, who leads alignment research at Anthropic, has said the same risk exceeds 10 percent within the decade, while publicly acknowledging his own company has no plan to align a superintelligent system. Paul Christiano, who helped build the...

Editor: To the elected officials and all those various enterprises who are fast forwarding the “economic development” of our once peaceful living paradise in Wilson County. Exactly why does our county need to be economically developed in the first place? Are we in a race with Bexar, Guadalupe, and Comal counties to become the most traffic-jammed and overpopulated on the planet? Why are you all so...

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Scenes from the 2026 Coronation of the Court of Confectionery Creations, Grand Parade, and Festival held in downtown Floresville. Article Link

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The Falls City Community Hall will host its next Market Day on Saturday, Oct. 17, from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. inside the hall on U.S. 181 in Falls City. This family-friendly community event includes craft vendors, garage sales, and farmer’s market items. Breakfast tacos and complimentary coffee will be available at 8 a.m. and there will be a food truck with a variety of menu items for lunch. This is als...

Loyal readers visit the Wilson County News office to receive gift certificates or gifts from local businesses, which is their prize for participating in WCN’s “Dog Days of Summer Photo Contest” and “Football Trivia” promotions. Article Link