Seniors John Smith and Gretchen Brosz were named Bandera High School homecoming king and queen during ceremonies held Oct. 15 before the Bulldogs-Fredericksburg varsity football game.
Also included in this album are the KENS5 pre-game tailgate party and the Parade of Decades alumni event before the game.
For my full album of photos from the game, visit the Bulletin’s DotPhoto.com account:
Main Street filled to standing room only for this year’s Bandera High School Homecoming Parade on Oct. 12.
You can view my full album of photos at the Bulletin’s DotPhoto.com account:
(Above, fans duck and cover as Bandera Lady Bulldog Kaylee Reeves dives into the stands to save the point for her team. Despite her heroic effort, Bandera lost to the Wimberley Lady Texans in their Oct. 5 match.)
I won’t delay in setting you right on the path to Bandera County photo goodness, mates. Below enjoy a month’s worth of sports and event photography albums from across the county, with links taking you right to the Bulletin’s DotPhoto.com account. I’ve also included my personal favorite picks from the last 30 days.
Thank you, as always, for supporting The Outlaw!
Photos from the Sept. 15, 2010, edition of the Bulletin
– Medina Lady Cats volleyball vs. D’Hanis Cowgirls – Sept. 7, 2010
– Bandera Bulldogs football vs. Llano Yellow Jackets – Sept. 10, 2010
Photos from the Sept. 22, 2010, edition of the Bulletin
– Medina Lady Cats volleyball vs. Leakey Lady Eagles – Sept. 18, 2010
Photos from the Sept. 29, 2010, edition of the Bulletin
– Bandera Bulldogs JV football vs. La Vernia Bears JV – Sept. 23, 2010
– Medina Lady Cats volleyball vs. Marion – Sept. 24, 2010
– Medina Bobcats football vs. Marion JV Halftime Blackout – Sept. 24, 2010
Photos from the Oct. 6, 2010, edition of the Bulletin
– Utopia Lady Buffs volleyball vs. Medina Lady Cats – Sept. 28, 2010
– Bandera Lady Bulldogs volleyball vs. San Antonio Hawkins – Oct. 1, 2010
– Bandera Youth Soccer – Sharks vs. Shooting Stars – Oct. 2, 2010
Photos from the Oct. 13, 2010, edition of the Bulletin
– Bandera Lady Bulldogs volleyball vs. Wimberley Lady Texans – Oct. 5, 2010
– Medina Bobcats football vs. Nueces Canyon Panthers – Oct. 8, 2010
And below, the Highlight Reel:
The Bandera Bulldogs did not fare well against a speedy Devine varsity football squad on Sept. 3, losing 55-7 in the second game of their 2010 season.
Here are my photo highlights from the game. My full set of images from the game will be posted to the Bulletin DotPhoto.com account later this week.
The Medina Bobcats beat the San Marcos Baptist Academy Bears tonight in varsity football action, but the Bandera Bulldogs couldn’t pull a win out over the Hondo Owls in their season opener.
Here are some of my highlights from tonight’s games. Full albums of photos will be posted to the Bulletin’s DotPhoto.com account later this week.
Indeed, the Boys of Fall are back in action.
You can find my photos from the Bulldogs vs. Bears football scrimmage in the Bandera.net Gallery:
Bandera Bulldogs football scrimmage vs. La Vernia Bears – Aug. 14, 2010
Here are a few of my top picks:
(I was mostly off from the newspaper last week, so no new news photos to share. But I did have a great senior photo shoot with Medina High School graduate Leianna Rich, pictured above! You can view more of my portrait photography work at OutlawPhotography.net.)
With National Day of the American Cowboy upon us, most of our editorial space in the Bulletin this week was dedicated to all the info you need to know to get the most of this summertime event put on by the Frontier Times Museum. Grab today’s copy of the Bulletin for full event calendar and previews of this weekend’s festivities.
My recent headline stories in the Bulletin include:
In sports this week, read about how Bandera Bulldog season ticket holders are going from economy seating to first class.
Have news to share? Post a comment below, drop me an e-mail, or call/text me at 830-688-1564.
KENS5 News has a video follow-up on the big Dirty Diner Feud in Lakehills between M&M Diner and La Cabana Mexican Cafe. Read the Bulletin’s background on the story at BanderaBulletin.com.
Here’s a scan of Taylor Bruce’s article and photos about how “Bandera, Texas: Makes Us Glad We Live in the South” in Southern Living Magazine’s July 2010 edition.
Canadian Debbie Olsen of the Red Deer Advocate writes this week about her visit to Bandera County and the Running R Guest Ranch. Great photo slide show included with images from OST, the Frontier Times Museum, and trail riding at the Hill Country State Natural Area.
Over on Facebook, the 365 Things To Do in the Texas Hill Country page features Medina apple-pickin’ this week.
You can read Buck Shannon’s often-updated blog from the Flying L Guest Ranch over on Blogspot.com.
Pioneer River Resort of Bandera co-manager Lloyd Randall is quoted in a July 14 article in Woodall’s Campground Management, “Heavy Rains Revive Texas Campground Business.”
Brick’s River Cafe in Bandera got a good 4/5 review over on Yelp.com on Monday. Ashley P. from Chico, Calif., says the Austin sandwich (one of my personal favorites) was awesome and her boyfriend enjoyed his “delicious” broccoli cheese soup and patty melt, but was jealous of a neighboring diner’s plate-sized chicken fried steak. When I “get a lil’ chicken fried” at Brick’s, I’m partial to the pork loin medallions, Texas smashed potatoes, and as always, fried okra.
Peggy and David Koehler blog this week about their to visit the Bandera area, and give Riverside RV Park here a glowing review. “NICE. $20 per night, full hookups, cable and free wifi, also right along the Medina River with miles of trails to walk… Cinder and I took full advantage in the early mornings and late evenings!”
Bandera was chosen by WalletPop.com as one of its “12 American towns with unusual claims to fame” for being the Cowboy Capital of The World.
Read a bit of history about the Sabinal River here in Bandera County over on the Wharton Journal Spectator’s web site.
The San Saba News & Star reports their local Church of Christ group visited Camp Bandina Youth Camp near Bandera earlier this month. Photos included!
Romantic fiction and creative non-fiction writer Pamela Thibodeaux blogged recently about her visit to the Silver Spur Guest Ranch here in Bandera. Her newest book, In His Sight, will be published this Friday.
The fine folks at TexasFishingForum.com share their tips for finding the big ones in Medina Lake.
Pick up these collectible dolls from eBay seller wildcherry143 in Lakehills. With one day to go as of July 21, they’re going for 99 cents plus $4.99 shipping.
Visit the Luckenbach General Store online to buy your genuine cowhide bottle koozie made by “friends in Bandera, Texas.”
Many thanks to YouTuber SSPitCrewBBQTeam for posting these videos this week of the Wife Carry event at the Medina Lake BBQ Cookoff. They are simply hilarious – I’ve never attended the Medina Lake BBQ before, but with entertainment like this, I don’t know how I could miss it.
YouTuber Chucky4Cheddar and family enjoyed some “Red Neck Water Sports” on Medina Lake this week.
Enjoy photos from the Shearrer Family’s recent visit to Medina Lake on their blog. Don’t miss the adorable toddler “making engine noises” on their boat!
If you’re a friend on Facebook, you:
For all the latest Bandera County buzz, catch up with me on Facebook, Twitter @BanderaOutlaw, here on the home of the Bandera County Outlaw at Bandera.net, or weekly in the Bandera Bulletin newspaper.
If you have news to share, drop me a e-mail, hit me up on Facebook, or call/text me at 830-688-1564. If you’d like to comment on this week’s news, feel free to speak your mind below or over on Facebook.
Lots of Bandera County news to report this week, so I’m publishing the weekly news roundup a day early. Have news to share? Post below, drop me an e-mail, or call/text me at 830-688-1564.
(Above photo, Art Crawford and Lisa Beck perform at the Silver Sage Corral 25th Anniversary Open House.)
A special grand jury indictment was handed down Monday for Bandera County Sheriff Weldon Tucker, who is accused of abusing his power by misusing a county search and rescue boat.
Tucker’s attorney, Charles O. Grigson, issued a press release Tuesday morning stating Tucker is “shocked and disappointed” at the indictment. This news came to us after the newspaper was finished, but we pulled the front page from press and put a late-breaking update in.
You can read that update here, and read the Express-News coverage here.
There are already 20 comments as of Tuesday morning on the Express-News site.
(Update: KSAT 12 News, which broke the story Monday, just posted a reaction story with video online. Reporter Charles Gonzales was in town today doing interviews.)
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Gunslingers and Bandera, Texas, were shown love this month in Cowboys & Indians magazine, featuring portraits by yours truly of Lew Pewterbaugh (Bunkhouse Leather) and Nalene Dillingham-Stolzer (Mac & Ernie’s Roadside Eatery in Tarpley). It was a lot of fun to shoot these two great Bandera County personalities for the magazine.
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Other Bulletin headlines this week include:
Riverfest is splashing down at the Bandera City Park this weekend, courtesy of the Bandera Business Association. Lots of good music, good food, beautiful cars, and river fun to be had. Riverfest is one of my personal favorite annual events in Bandera County. Don’t miss the Great Hill Country Anything That Floats Regatta.
Bandera baseballer Davis Morrow was honored with a Third Team nod in Class 3A by the Texas High School Baseball Coaches Association for their All-State Team.
Congratulations to the Bandera High School Alternate Graduates Class of 2010! Twenty-three students earned their high school diploma through alternate programs this year via Bandera ISD.
The Bandera County Jail housed an alleged murderer recently, according to the Fredericksburg Standard Radio Post. Brandon Louis Harber, 19, of Blanco, is one of two men charged with the November murder of a Kendalia man. He was transferred to the Bandera jail after being magistrated in Fredericksburg.
Bandera County was featured in the travel section of Turkish newspaper Today’s Zaman, earning a full subhead from a story about San Antonio as the most popular tourist city in Texas. The descriptions of our rodeo fun are priceless.
Robyn Barnes wrote about how prospective luxury homeowners are setting their sights on Pipe Creek, Bandera and Medina in her article, “Hill Country Flight Moves West.” This coincides with Forbes Magazine naming Bandera County as the sixth most popular place in the United States where America’s money is moving, reported here last week in my June 16 roundup.
Bandera Middle School was recently recognized for their “superior implementation” of the Teens in the Driver Seat Jr. High program. The program teaches peer-to-peer safety for young drivers.
Former Pipe Creek resident Kendall Webster was featured last week in the Boerne Star for her role as the Fair Oaks Ranch animal control officer.
What’s happening this week in Bandera County? Check out the Bandera County Convention & Visitor Bureau’s weekly calendar.
The Bulletin editorial staff, Jessica Hawley-Jerome and I, picked up some sweet awards this weekend at the Texas Press Association’s 2010 Better Newspaper Contest. You can read the full list of press awards we won this year over at BanderaBulletin.com.
This year marks my 11th as a career journalist in Bandera County. I started working in this newsroom (back when it was The Review) my sophomore year at Bandera High School, and I have since survived countless owners, publishers, coworkers, and readers both engaged and enraged. Journalism and this community run through my veins as sure as blood.
Thank you for your support and readership as Jessica and I work weekly to bring you the best news coverage in the county.
Topping us for sweepstakes in our division were the Alpine Avalanche and the Smithville Times, both wildly impressive papers next to whom we’re proud to be mentioned.
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Here’s an awesome historical find on eBay: an “Old West Bandera County Texas Sheriff Law Badge” that reads “Sheriff Bandera Co Tex William H. Burns 1932 1951.”
You can read a bit about Sheriff W.H. Burns on the Old Old News page for Bandera, TX, on TXGenWeb. Burns is featured in two Associated Press stories from the 1940’s, “Medina Man Held in Slaying of Kin” and “Riot in Town, Bandera, Texas.” Lots of other interesting news clips from Bandera County’s history there, going all the way back to 1885.
As of Tuesday morning, there were seven bids for the badge on eBay. The item is being sold out of Coopersville, MI, and the auction ends on June 25.
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Did you know you can read the complete text of John Marvin Hunter’s “Pioneer History of Bandera County” on Google Books?
Caroline Clemmons blogs over at Skhye’s Ramblings about her research around Bandera and the Lost Maples State Natural Area for her book, The Texan’s Irish Bride.
The Texas Archeology Society set up camp last week on the Eagle Ford Ranch between Hondo and Tarpley for their annual week-long Field School. Around 400 folks from across the state, professionals through newcomers, came to study the area.
Factoid: The most published article in the category of Recreation and Sports – Rodeo on EzineArticles.com is, you guessed it, about Bandera, Texas, the Cowboy Capital of the World.
The Door In The Wall, Inc., of Lakehills, is a non-profit run completely on community support that uses a multimedia approach to encourage people with disabilities to try new experiences. Their goal is to “educate their able bodied peers to enable them both to live together with new respect and understanding.”
Whisper, Stripes McGee, Taz, and Shadow, all kittens from Lakehills posted to Craigslist, may still be available to a good home.
As of June 14, Pipe Creek’s Christian Riordan, 12, was the leader in the speckled trout upper coast division of the Academy Sports & Outdoors Starteens Scholarship Trout Division ages 11-17 in the 2010 CCA / Texas Ford Dealers / Tilson Home Corporation State of Texas Angler’s Rodeo. That’s a lot of sponsorships, but the $20,000 scholarship he could win is worth the plentiful proper nouns. He leads first-runner-up Thomas Shelton, 13, of Houston, with a 7lb 1oz catch.
Gary P. Nunn’s performance this weekend at the 11th Street Cowboy Bar was shown much video love on YouTube by hdbrock34. He has a string of videos posted from Nunn’s Bandera show.
This dung beetle is supposedly hard at work in a cow pasture here in Bandera, courtesy of Glowens.
Here’s a double backflip into Medina Lake, posted to YouTube by ModHuffVids.
A deer was spotted near Medina Lake this week. There’s an axis joke in there somewhere.
I posted to the Bandera.net Gallery a trio of event photo albums: Bandera County Relay For Life, Bella Fool performing at Blue Gene’s, and the Bandera High School Choir Talent Show benefiting Cancer Research.
Want to see some beautiful wedding photography out in Medina, Texas? Visit Peacock Photography’s blog to view Kristina and Dave’s wedding there.
I found this copy of 100 Years in Bandera, 1853-1953, by J. Marvin Hunter, behind the glass at Half Price Books in San Antonio last week. The sale price was marked at $100.
The Fordging Ahead blog posted Monday a set of photos from their visit to a dude ranch here in Bandera. Bandera superstar steer Oreo is the first photo featured!
Zedekiah12 posted a lovely photo of the Medina River off Three Mile Bridge on Sunday.
Check out the Bing photo and image search results for Bandera, Texas, to get a broad perspective on how the world sees Bandera, and how residents and visitors both have photographed the town and its events over the years. I love this image of a lizard saved at a Bandera golf course from one of those deep outdoor ashtrays.
You can buy a copy of an aerial photography map poster of Lakehills over on eBay for around $11. Same for an aerial photo map of Medina.
Bandera Electric Coop. tweeted a job opening they have for a Member Accounts Associate. Deadline to apply is June 28.
The Buck Wild Band tweeted their upcoming Aug. 27, 8 p.m., performance at the 11th Street Cowboy Bar in Bandera.
Willow The Dog was tweeted during a dip in Medina Lake this weekend.
Mike Sanders of the Country Boys Union band posted to Facebook his upcoming show at 11th Street Cowboy Bar on Saturday, June 26, 9 p.m. to 1 a.m.
The Toman Bros band posted to Facebook upcoming show dates in Bandera County: June 23, 24 at Bandera Saloon; June 26, rodeo dance in Utopia; June 27, 11th Street Cowboy Bar.
If you’re a friend on Facebook, you were linked over to the Cowboys & Indians magazine article on Bandera featuring my photography, got the breaking news of Sheriff Tucker’s indictment, saw live photos posted from the Saturday San Antonio Missions game, got live updates from the Texas Better Newspaper Contest, and were linked to the Bandera County Online News Roundup for June 16 featuring Jessica’s story on animal welfare at Bandera County Animal Control.
If you follow me on Twitter @BanderaOutlaw, you saw my photo of the historical 100 Years in Bandera book for sale at Half Price Books, were first in line to read the Cowboys & Indians magazine feature on Bandera when it hit the net, participated in a discussion on journalism ethics re: free meals, were linked to the KSAT 12 News breaking coverage of Sheriff Tucker’s indictment and the related Express-News story, got live updates from the San Antonio Missions game Saturday at Nelson Wolff Municipal Stadium, were invited out to the Silver Sage’s open house, saw live tweets from the Texas Press Association’s summer conference with speakers Robert Rivard of the Express-News and Dem. Gov. candidate Bill White, learned about a two-year-old boy found abandoned in his carseat in Helotes on Friday night, saw my #FollowFriday recommendation of San Antonio photojournalist Johnny Garcia for his live news photo tweets, received live updates from City Council as they chose a municipal judge, and learned what a BMPR is.
For all the latest Bandera County buzz, catch up with me on Facebook, Twitter @BanderaOutlaw, here on the home of the Bandera County Outlaw at Bandera.net, or weekly in the Bandera Bulletin newspaper.
If you have news to share, drop me a e-mail, hit me up on Facebook, or call/text me at 830-688-1564. If you’d like to comment on this week’s news, feel free to speak your mind below or over on Facebook.
I wasn’t allotted much time to shoot baseball or softball this month, but I tried to make the most of the shoots I got in.
You can find my photos from the April 6 Bandera Bulldogs and Lady Bulldogs games versus Wimberley in the Bandera.net Gallery:
Bandera Bulldogs baseball vs. Wimberley Texans – April 6, 2010
Bandera Lady Bulldogs softball vs. Wimberley Lady Texans – April 6, 2010
Two great games between the Bandera soccer teams and Medina Valley early this month. The boys game came down to a sudden death shootout with the Bulldogs picking up the win.
You can find my photos from that night’s games, plus the senior night walk with parents, in the Bandera.net Gallery:
Bandera Bulldogs & Lady Bulldogs Soccer Senior Night – March 5, 2010
Bandera Bulldogs soccer vs. Medina Valley Panthers – March 5, 2010
Bandera Lady Bulldogs soccer vs. Medina Valley Lady Panthers – March 5, 2010
