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News-Dispatch Volume XXXX No. 15
Serving Western Hays County, Texas since 1982
WISD sends cease and desist letters
John Robert Garrison was arrested and charged with the Christmas Day robbery of a convenience store in Dripping Springs.
Suspect in Christmas Day robbery arrested BY ANITA MILLER A suspect has been arrested in the Christmas Day robbery of the Corner Store in Dripping Springs. John Robert Garrison, 39, of Wimberley was arrested without GARRISON incident Jan. 7 at a hotel in North Austin by the Austin Police Department Robbery Unit and agents from the Lonestar Fugitive Task Force. Garrison is accused of entering the store located at Sawyer Ranch Road and U.S. 290 at approximately 2:05 a.m., displaying a handgun and demanding money. Online records show he had been released from Hays County Jail Dec. 17 after his arrest by the Kyle Police Department for driving with an invalid license and prior convictions. In a press release, Deputy Mark Andrews of the Hays County Sheriff’s Office said Garrison had multiple outstanding warrants, including two for aggravated robbery, with the Austin Police Department and a warrant for a parole violation from the Texas Board of Pardons and Parole. Garrison is currently in Travis County Jail.
Wimberley Independent school district is threatening legal action against a woman who used the Wimberley Texan logo with a rainbow in the backdrop. Community outrage sparked over the logo, after grievances were filed against WISD school board member Lori Olsen for wearing an altered WISD logo with a pride flag in the backdrop. Since those grievances were filed, WISD has obtained copyright to both the Wimberley Texan logo and the new WISD logo to “ensure fairness and consistency,” according to an
email notice from WISD Superintendent Dwain York. The email notice was sent to Wimberley resident Cynthia Millonzi this week. Millonzi said she changed her profile picture on Facebook for seven days to the rainbow backdrop version during
Wimberley’s first pride parade in September. The image remains in her past profile pictures album on Facebook, but she has not used the logo since then. “When the week was over, the picture came down and I haven’t used it since, so to get the letter after the fact is a little
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No go on ‘pride’ logo BY CAMELIA JUAREZ
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disturbing,” Millonzi said. “They [WISD] did not have the rights to the logo when we used it and not that we would check. I mean if someone gifted me a T-shirt, I’m not going to check the copyright on every shirt.” WISD Superintendent Dwain York said the district will enforce its rights to limit use of the marks under federal and state law. “Wimberley ISD has several marks which it allows local sponsors of its educational and extra-curricular activity programs to use. These sponsors pay significant fees each year to Wimberley ISD. Recent-
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Gravestone from lost settlement found in Hays County creekbed BY ANITA MILLER At first, just the corner was visible in a field of old flood debris along an intermittent creek near The Plant at Kyle, on west FM 150. Martha Kinscherff and her husband Jamie, stewards and neighbors of the popular wedding venue, walked the area often, but it hadn’t caught their eye until one day just over a year ago. “We lifted it up to see what it was and discovered it was a gravestone,” she recalled. What she still didn’t know was the story that would unfold about the person whose resting place it had marked. That story has since been filled, though many questions – including how it got to Central Texas – remain unanswered. The Kinscherffs didn’t do anything with the PHOTO COURTESY OF MARTHA KINSCHERFF stone until December Posing with the gravestone found at an intermittent creek in Kyle are (left to right) Rob2019, when serendipert Loflin, Calhoun County Historical Commission Chairman; Jo Landon, Hays County ity delivered the Hays County Historical Com- Historical Commission, Cemetery Chair; and Martha Kinscherff, steward at The Plant at Kyle. mission to a function at The Plant and seated weathered by time, he Margaret Clement and Martha Kinscherff next 1875, then destroyed by another – along with said the piece of the Eudora Moore were part to local historian Jo a fire – in stone that Kinscherff of a group of “12 young Landon. August had found fit the base ladies” who sewed and “I men“like a jigsaw puzzle.” presented a Confedtioned we The gravesite 1886. Landon Loflin said he’s now erate flag to the comhad the was that of said she “working with a conmander of an artillery graveand others servation company to company stationed at stone,” and Margaret contacted get the stone repaired.” Fort Esperanza, which Landon Clement, Robert Once that’s done, he was across Matagorda and anothLoflin plans to invite the Hays Bay from Indianola. er member who was the County Historical ComThe two women of the comlaid to rest in of Calhoun mission down to see it were reportedly friends. mission County restored to its rightful “Perhaps this connecasked to be 1883 in the Historical place. tion may hold a clue sent a phocoastal town CommisNo one is sure as to how Margaret to. “They sion and, how the partial stone Clement’s stone found took the of Indianola as luck made its way from the its way to the banks of ball from in what is would coastal plains to a Hays the creek.” there,” she County creekbed, but Born in south Texas recalled. now Calhoun have it, discovered Landon has a theory in Jan. 12, 1846, MarUsing County. he was that involves a connec- garet Clement’s father the Find planning tion between Margaret Robert F. Clement was a Grave a trip to Austin. Loflin Clement, who died at an English Merchant website, Landon dispickup the gravestone the age of 37, and Eudo- and her mother was covered the stone had on Jan. 4. ra Inez Moore, who had his first wife Christimarked the gravesite “After I got back I also lived in Indianola na Wallace, who had of Margaret Clement, drove down there to but later moved in with been born in Scotland. who was laid to rest in her cousin Maggie Christina died “when 1883 in the coastal town make sure it fit,” Loflin said. The base of the Kuykendall. Decades Margaret was still a little of Indianola in what is headstone was still in ago, the area where The girl,” Landon said. “Her now Calhoun County place in the old IndiPlant at Kyle is located father then married her – once a thriving port anola Cemetery, he was part of the Kuyken- aunt, Margaret Wallace. near the mouth of the explained. The base dall Ranch. For the duration of the Guadalupe River and During the Civil War, Civil War, her father and gateway to elsewhere in “had part of the inscription – that’s partly how Indianola was a critical stepmother/aunt reTexas that was heavily we were able to identify staging area for Condamaged by a major hurricane in September where it went.” Though federate troops, and GRAVESTONE MYSTERY, 6
Road closure near Founders Park Portions of Rob Shelton to close temporarily STAFF REPORT Rob Shelton Blvd. will be closed to through traffic to and from Founders Park Road, which began after Christmas. The temporary closure is due to construction of a new driveway to Founders Park Pool and the Pound House. Traffic control and detours signs were put in place with closures and paving happening soon after. This first phase of construction is expected to take about a month to complete. Two-way traffic control will occur during the scheduled period of construction. Once this first phase is completed, Rob Shelton Blvd. will reopen, and the second phase of construction will begin, where portions of Founders Park Road will be closed to enable the construction to finish. There will continue to be access to the Pound House and Founders Park during both phases of construction. The city will provide updates throughout the construction. Please exercise caution when driving through the area.
VOTE
County approves early voting times, locations for March 3 primaries BY ANITA MILLER Hays County Commissioners on Tuesday adopted dates and locations for early voting in the March 3 Democratic and Republican primary elections with a couple of changes from the locations voters used in November 2019. Early voting will begin on Tuesday, Feb. 18 and run through Friday, Feb. 21, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Voting hours on Saturday, Feb. 22 are 7 a.m. to 7 p.m.; on Sunday, Feb. 23 from 1 to 6 p.m. and from Monday, Feb. 24 through Friday, Feb. 28, from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. Voters can choose any location countywide for early voting as well as for voting from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. on Tuesday, March 3. In Wimberley there are
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