Hondo Anvil Herald

Just a couple of weeks removed from city and school elections, Medina County voters will have the chance to go to the polls again, this time for the joint primary runoff election. The actual date of the runoff is Tuesday, May 26, but early voting will run all of the coming week, Monday, May 18 through Friday, May 22. There are five races on the countywide Republican runoff ballot, plus a sixth race which will appear on ballots in Precinct 3. The two races on th

PHOTO / JEFF BERGER Hondo junior Ava Lowe, one of a handful of Owls to compete in the state tennis tourney three times, on Friday became the UIL 3A Girls Singles silver medalist.

The 2026 UIL State Track and Field Meet gets underway Thursday morning, May 14 and runs through Saturday, May 16, at Mike A. Myers Stadium, on the University of Texas campus. A handful of local individual athletes are headed to Austin over the next three days: two from Hondo, one from D’Hanis in two events, one from Sabinal, one from Medina Valley, three from Lytle and four individuals plus a relay team from Devine. This morning, Hondo senior Mason Barr will start t

By Rosanne Fohn Anvil Herald Reporter With warmer temperatures, continuing drought and the influx of new subdivisions into Medina County, water has become a major issue. Those concerns are magnified across the state, and with the passage of Proposition 4 in the November 2025 election, the state was authorized to provide $20 billion in grants for water, infrastructure improvement and conservation projects over the next 20 years. The Medina County Public Utility Ag

COURTESY PHOTO King Alex Rodriguez and Queen Kaydence Sandoval were crowned during the Rio themed evening on Saturday, May 9.