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Skip to main content San Antonio advisers OK Alamo plan changes; Alamo Street could close June 1, Cenotaph definitely will stay FacebookTwitterEmail The Alamo Cenotaph and Alamo Street, shown in a June photograph, were topics of discussion and action Wednesday night by the Alamo Citizen Advisory Committee. The panel supported keeping the Cenotaph in place and initiating a repair plan, and endorsed closing a section of the street, between Houston and Crockett streets, that is in the historic mis...

The green beer and St. Patricks Day festivities will continue amid the COVID-19 era.

Fun-filled fiesta returns to Warkworth School After last year’s cancellation due to Covid-19, the Warkworth School Fiesta is returning with a bigger format, thanks to newly-completed school grounds. The fiesta will be held on Friday, March 26, from 3pm to 6pm. Activities include a bouncy castle, sponge throw competition, face painting, jewellery making, a toilet roll toss, fire truck rides, raffles and auctions. “It is a highlight for the school community, and we would love more of the publ...

FacebookTwitterEmail San Antonio businesses are working through changes brought on by the states latest order to end masks and a Southtown mainstay is straying from being considered as part of the "ultimate mask burning party," but is defending the "middle ground" approach to policy.Steven Casanova for mySA San Antonio businesses are working through changes brought on by the states latest order to end masks and a Southtown mainstay is distancing itself from the "ultimate mask burning party," bu...

Skip to main content Alamo citizen panel begins work to rescue renovation plan even as legislator seeks to block historical revisionism FacebookTwitterEmail 1of2 Alamo Citizen Advisory Committee members met Monday night to start work on getting the Alamo renovation project back on track.Staff file photoShow MoreShow Less 2of2 Alamo Citizen Advisory Committee members gather to vote on the proposed Alamo plan in City Council chambers in this 2018 photo. The committee, which drafted a vision and g...

COVID-19 by the numbers Over the weekend, New Mexico health officials reported 471 new COVID-19 cases: 288 on Saturday and 183 on Sunday. Santa Fe County had 17 new cases—12 on Saturday and five on Sunday. There have now been 186,922 total cases, with 156,554 designated as recovered by the health department. The state also announced 22 more deaths: 10 on Saturday and 12 on Sunday, bringing the total number of fatalities thus far to 3,808. As of yesterday, 169 people were hospitalized with ...

La Fiesta continues under level 1 8 Mar, 2021 03:00 PM 4 minutes to read My grateful thanks to all of you for your patience and understanding as La Fiesta experienced numerous changes and cancellations due to the alert level change in response to the latest community cases of Covid-19 in the last week. Now that we are back at alert level 1 we look forward to celebrating the very last week of the festival with you all. Theres still time to get into it! Carla Donson, originator and co-ordinator o...

The $450 million Alamo project is on life support FacebookTwitterEmail 1of22 A musket volley pierces the morning during the “Dawn at the Alamo” ceremony Saturday morning commemorating the beginning of the siege of the Alamo in 1836.Robin Jerstad /Robin JerstadShow MoreShow Less 2of22 Direct descendant Carolyn Cotton carries the wreath honoring David Crockett during the “Dawn at the Alamo” ceremony Saturday morning commemorating the beginning of the siege of the Alamo in 1836.Robin Jerst...

Skip to main content Currently Reading How about owning the Dominion? I call dibs on the chancla token! Its Monopoly - San Antonio style FacebookTwitterEmail 1of4 Uncle Pennybags, aka the Monopoly Man, stands with Mayor Ron Nirenberg at Mission San José on Thursday as officials gathered to announce the newly approved San Antonio version of the famed Hasbro game, Monopoly. San Antonians can submit locally related ideas for the game through March 17 at sanantonio@toptrumps.com.William Luther /Sa...

Landlord suing Regal for unpaid rent at shuttered Fiesta 16 theater FacebookTwitterEmail The Regal Fiesta Stadium 16 at 12631 Vance Jackson Road is permanently closed.Madison Iszler / San Antonio Express-News After closing its theaters in March as the coronavirus pandemic took hold, Regal Cinemas allegedly stopped paying rent for its Fiesta Stadium 16 location at a North Side shopping center. The chain started reopening its locations in August before shutting down once more in October, but it�...