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The Rally Nuns are back in business!

Bobby Horecka
Wednesday, October 19, 2022
Sister Mary Catherine got called up to the majors once again this year, Shiner Catholic Schools reported. She received the phone call Wednesday, Oct. 12, that she is needed in Houston to help the Astros.
File Photo by Bobby Horecka, from 2021

File Photo by Bobby Horecka, from 2021

Pivo & Kolaches happens Saturday in Shiner

Bobby Horecka
Wednesday, October 19, 2022
The second annual Shiner Lions Club’s Pivo & Kolaches returns to Green Dickson Park once again from 4 to 10 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 22. In addition to their 0.5K fun run at 6 p.m.
Courtesy photo.

Courtesy photo.

Highway 111 crash leaves two teens dead Saturday

Bobby Horecka
Sunday, October 16, 2022
*Note: This article has been edited for brevity and clarity. Lavaca County Today will continue to update the article as information becomes available.  A two-vehicle head-on collision just before noon on Saturday, Oct.
Assistant curator Roy Rivera, curator Duff Wagner and Councilman Greg Murrile pose for a picture to honor Wagner’s official retirement from the city last week. They are standing at the museum’s newest exhibit, featuring one of the massive train trusses and other sordid details about the big train derailment that took place in downtown Shiner earlier this summer.

Assistant curator Roy Rivera, curator Duff Wagner and Councilman Greg Murrile pose for a picture to honor Wagner’s official retirement from the city last week. They are standing at the museum’s newest exhibit, featuring one of the massive train trusses and other sordid details about the big train derailment that took place in downtown Shiner earlier this summer.

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S Panem Bohem, Duff!

Bobby Horecka
Tuesday, October 11, 2022
Frank “Duff” Wagner, a staple at Shiner’s Edwin Wolters Memorial Museum and regular columnist with the Gazette, officially embarked on a new chapter of life Saturday, Oct. 7.
Shiner's Royalty turns heads in back-to-back festival parades. Chamber Photo

Shiner's Royalty turns heads in back-to-back festival parades. Chamber Photo

Shiner's Royalty turns heads in back-to-back festival parades

Bobby Horecka
Friday, October 7, 2022
The Shiner Chamber of Commerce's Royalty Court has had a fine showing on the road these past two weekends, with the Shiner float bringing home First Place honors at the Hallettsville Kolache Fest parade held Saturday, Sept.
Matthew Herman accepts his oath as new police officer with the Bryan Police Department having recently completed Police Academy.

Matthew Herman accepts his oath as new police officer with the Bryan Police Department having recently completed Police Academy.

Herman graduates Bryan Police Academy

Bobby Horecka
Friday, October 7, 2022
Ever since about junior high, being one of the lucky few to wear that badge was all he ever talked about, his mom said. Last month, those dreams all finally came true for one young man from Shiner. Matthew Herman on Friday, Sept.
Sara Collins took these amazing shots at last week's home game against Bloomington, and later posted them to the Shiner Comanche Band Boosters Facebook page. We just had to share...

Sara Collins took these amazing shots at last week's home game against Bloomington, and later posted them to the Shiner Comanche Band Boosters Facebook page. We just had to share...

Comanche Band tops Class 2A at Seguin marching contest

Bobby Horecka
Friday, October 7, 2022
The Fighting Comanche Band topped all the Class 2A bands competing at the Seguin Marching Festival last Saturday—winning higher scores than even a couple 4A bands, one 5A school and two 6A bands, their band director said—with 7th overall in the areawide marching band competition.
Local historian Doug Kubicek and Shiner superintendent Alex Remschel gave us a tour of the Old Shiner Gym last week. Seen here on the old stage, the two are discussing what all still might need doing to make this a 100% usable facility as it was intended—replacing just one set of curtains for use on the stage runs in the tens of thousands of dollars, all the way around would run in the hundreds of thousands. Remschels said. Even more would be needed to bring the stage lighting up to snuff.

Local historian Doug Kubicek and Shiner superintendent Alex Remschel gave us a tour of the Old Shiner Gym last week. Seen here on the old stage, the two are discussing what all still might need doing to make this a 100% usable facility as it was intended—replacing just one set of curtains for use on the stage runs in the tens of thousands of dollars, all the way around would run in the hundreds of thousands. Remschels said. Even more would be needed to bring the stage lighting up to snuff.

OLD SHINER GYM—Part II: Shiner tries again for its gymnasium as depths of Great Depression begin to clear

Bobby Horecka
Friday, October 7, 2022
When we left off in last week’s Gazette, we shared a couple stories filed Jan. 22, 1931, which to borrow a phrase that shows up in our pages then, about “a fellow who signs his name” Mr. J.L.
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