Welcome to the Wilson County News “Candidates’ Forum.” We invited candidates facing opposition for area city council, school ...

Senator Gaylord Nelson of Wisconsin initiated the first Earth Day. It was reported at the time that over 20 million people took part in local events. The news saturation was total and for the time it ...

Floresville’s Alyssah Bolanos (4) pitches for the junior varsity Jaguars’ final game of the 2025 season April 17 at home. The Jaguars defeated the Lady Cats, 11-3. DAPHNI RIVERA/Daphni M. Rivera ...

Red Cross volunteer Richard Kimball, 70, of La Vernia delivers water to a hurricane victim in Asheville, N.C., in the wake of Hurricanes Helene and Milton in October 2024. Serving others through the ...

Little ones, many with a helping hand from mom, dad, or a grandparent, set out to search for Easter eggs April 19 on the grounds of Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Floresville. Volunteers hid 1,000 ...

Robert Creech greets shoppers March 22 at the Wilson County Extension Master Gardeners booth at the South Texas Home and Garden Show. COURTESY PHOTOS/ Wilson County Extension Master Gardeners March ...

COURTESY/GVEC GVEC’s Community Relations Representative Kasie Tankersley (right) presents Wilson County Junior Livestock Show Director Nash Nichols with a $1,225 donation to the Wilson County Junior ...

Ethel Faye Perez passed away on Sunday, April 13, 2025, in her San Antonio, Texas, home at the age of 69. She was born to Chester and Evie Jones on Nov. 29, 1954, in Marion, Ind. Faye grew up in ...

Photos by GREGORY RIPPS/Wilson County News Wilson County Emergency Management Coordinator Cindy Stafford explains the access to the county’s future Emergency Operations Center. While most of the steel ...

Melissa Clark-Ramsey passed away peacefully on Tuesday, April 15, 2025, in Pleasanton, Texas, at 52 years of age. She was born on July 31, 1972, a true Leo through and through. Melissa was a longtime ...

By Elaine Kolodziej DOGE Where is the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) when you need it? Perhaps the work of DOGE has been knocked out of the spotlight by all the hubbub concerning tariffs.

Sunset serenity. Following a full or half day of fishing, returning to the new Ruddy Lodge — the first phase of reconstruction from Hurricane Harvey‘s destruction of the iconic Redfish Lodge in ...