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A Wimberley man was stabbed at the Buzzard Bar on the Wimberley Square on Monday night.

David Reynolds was taken to University Medical Center Brackenridge via StarFlight helicopter after being stabbed multiple times. He was due to be released from the hospital on Tuesday afternoon.

Norman Littlefield, 43, of New Braunfels, was arrested for assault with a deadly weapon.

The Hays County Sheriff’s Office was called to the scene at 9:55 p.m.

Littlefield was “drunken and becoming belligerent” when he was asked to leave and “didn’t take kindly to that,” according to Hays County Sheriff’s Public Information Officer Jeri Skrocki. 

Skrocki said that a scuffle ensued and Littlefield stabbed Reynolds with a knife in the stomach and arm. 

The great floods of 2015 are a year in the rear view mirror, and thinking about what could have been done differently that would have helped minimize the effects of those or any other emergency was the big question.

That was the purpose of the community meeting held at the Community Center on Wednesday night, with all council present and Mayor McCullough as moderator. Any suggestions from the community were welcomed.

“We’re here to try and find out from the community what we can do better when a calamity happens again…what we can do better,” reiterated McCullough. McCullough brought up that at the time of the floods, one of the council members was watching his property wash away, while the other was fighting for their life against the flood’s waters.

According to multiple reports, a Wimberley couple died in a car accident in Indiana last week. 

WANE-TV in Indiana reported that Jimmy Hord, 71, and

Sherry Hord, 67, of Wimberley were killed when their truck with a camper turned over on Interstate 69 in Steuben County. 

“According to investigators, a pickup truck pulling a 30 foot camper rolled over in the median,” the report from WANE-TV said. “Emergency responders found the driver on the ground in front of the vehicle and a passenger pinned inside the truck.”

Both were pronounced dead at the scene. 

According to the report, witnesses described the vehicle going around a curve when the camper trailer began “to sway back-and-forth.” Investigators believe the driver over-corrected causing the vehicle to turn over. 

The Wimberley View took home four statewide awards from the Texas Press Association including two awards for first place. 

This is the first time the View has won a Texas Press Association award since 2009.

“We have put a lot of hard work into to producing the best weekly newspaper possible for the Wimberley community and it is nice to have that hard work recognized,” General Manager and Editor Dalton Sweat said. 

Nearly 150 newspapers in the state of Texas entered the Texas Better Newspaper contest, hosted by the TPA, with more than 1,500 entries. Each paper is then sorted into divisions in order to separate daily, semi-weekly and weekly newspapers into groups of similar circulation. 

After what the community of Wimberley did in the hours, days, weeks and months following the Memorial Weekend Flood, it seems like an impossible task to individually recognize everyone who came to help. The city of Wimberley is trying anyways.

The city has asked for nominations from locals to help identify those people that deserve recognition for their efforts in helping rebuild Wimberley. Before the last Wimberley City Council meeting, the names of the first round of nominees were listed off with Mayor Mac McCullough forcing each to stand for individual recognition

Every so often, you realize that there is so much stuff lying around and it has to go somewhere else because you keep bumping into it and vow to get rid of it somehow. Wimberley being a small town, during those times that there are no weddings or other events renting the Community Center, they can hold a Community-wide Garage sale. Like last Saturday, June 18. 

We had 300 to 400 turn out,” said Tracy Calamari, Director of the Community Center. “It was a good turnout, good and steady.” She said it’s a great way to get rid of unused things around the house. “The cost for a booth is $25 and you get to keep all the profit.”

Although in the past, when it is held during Market Days, the turnout is more, but already the Community Center has two more scheduled, one on Saturday August 13 and Saturday October 29,

Two teenage girls were taken to the hospital after the F150 they were driving left Ranch Road 12 and barreled towards the Blanco River.

According to witnesses on the scene, the truck was headed towards Wimberley just before the Blanco River bridge when the breaks locked. The driver of the vehicle in front of the truck said he didn’t know why the breaks were hit, but he heard the squeal.

The truck slid off the right hand side of the roadway before veering hard left and crossing the opposite lane of traffic. It went through the ditch, hit a wooden fence and continued into a field between South River Street and the river.

The witness said the truck then rolled over multiple times before coming to rest on the roof around 50 yards from the road, about halfway to the river.

Nearby drivers came to the aide of the girls before emergency personnel arrived.

A Wimberley man has been arrested for the murder of his father last night on Brookmeadow Drive in Wimberley.

Jacob Christopher Krueger, 29, a graduate of Wimberley High School, is in jail for felony 1 murder, according to a press release from the Hays County Sheriff’s Office.

The release said that the female homeowner called police telling them her husband and son were arguing near the rear of the residence. Deputies responded and located a male subject lying on the ground unresponsive, and another male sitting in a chair with a shotgun in hand.

The deceased was identified as Steve Krueger, 60 of Wimberley.

Officers took Jacob Christopher Krueger into custody.

The press release said that no other information is available at this time and that the investigation is still being conducted.

For only the third time in since 2011, Wimberley’s sales tax allocations, which reflect the amount of sales made within the city limits, fell compared to the same month last year. 

For the last year and a half, Wimberley’s monthly reports were blowing the previous year out of the water with month-over-month increases as high as 18 percent. That trend appears to have slowed as allocations representing the month of March fell a little less than two percent compared to last year and allocations just released for the month of April were only two percent higher than last year.

The last time Wimberley had two consecutive months of slow sales tax growth was in early 2011. 

Still, it doesn’t appear to be time to worry about the local economy. 

The inaugural Best of Wimberley contest has been counted, and the winners notified. Wimberley spoke up with hundreds of ballots cast naming the Best of Wimberley in more than 100 categories. 

Inside this issue of the Wimberley View is a special section announcing the winners. (To see the special section click here) You’ll see Ken Strange, director of the Wimberley EMS and president of the W.I.S.D. School Board, on the cover. Strange won two awards in the Best of Wimberley, one for best community volunteer and runner up for best civic leader. It’s hard to imagine a more deserving person.