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		<title>CTMC receives Trauma IV certification</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Texas Department of State Health Services designated Central Texas Medical Center (CTMC) as a Basic Level IV Trauma Facility at the start of the year.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.sanmarcosmercury.com/archives/12597</link>
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		<title>Authorities seek info on outlet center robber, sentence mall carjacker</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Police are trying to identify a man who displayed a gun and knife to rob the Levi store in the Tanger Outlet center in January. Meanwhile, a Buda man has been sentenced to 25 years for a carjacking in May at Prime Outlets across the street.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.sanmarcosmercury.com/archives/12582</link>
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		<title>Suspect tazed after swinging at officer</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hays County Sheriff’s deputies arrested a Kyle man accused of shoplifting from Cabela’s and then taking a swing at an officer Friday afternoon.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.sanmarcosmercury.com/archives/12578</link>
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		<title>Milloy to talk rail relocation at chamber breakfast</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ross Milloy, the Austin-San Antonio Corridor Council executive director, will headline this month's San Marcos Area Chamber of Commerce Eggs &#038; Issues Breakfast.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.sanmarcosmercury.com/archives/12565</link>
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		<title>Lawsuit asks judge to invalidate county development regs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A Henly resident is seeking to invalidate development regulations adopted last August with a lawsuit filed in state district court that argues Hays County did not properly analyze the financial impact of minimum lot sizes and other rules would have on property owners.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.sanmarcosmercury.com/archives/12550</link>
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		<title>Bill Johnson next up in oral history screenings</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Local author, historian and community leader Bill Johnson shares memories and anecdotes about the town of Wimberley in the newest oral history presentation by the Hays County Historical Commission.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.sanmarcosmercury.com/archives/12569</link>
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		<title>Meetings planned on Dahlstrom Ranch acccess</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hays County and its partners in the Dahlstrom Ranch conservation easement will hold public meetings on March 22 and March 31 to gather input from residents on certain aspects of public access.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.sanmarcosmercury.com/archives/12567</link>
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		<title>Novelist Tim O&#8217;Brien wins major literary prize</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Novelist Tim O’Brien, holder of the Endowed Chair in Creative Writing at Texas State University, has received the 2010 Katherine Anne Porter Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.sanmarcosmercury.com/archives/12544</link>
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		<title>Bobcat baseball runs past Red Raiders in 13-7 victory</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Bret Atwood exploded for a 5-for-6 night with four RBI and a pair of stolen bases to lead the Texas State baseball team to a stately 13-7 win over Texas Tech Tuesday night at Dan Law Field.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.sanmarcosmercury.com/archives/12541</link>
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		<title>Texas State hosts fourth Native American Cultural Conference</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Native American Student Association at Texas State University will host the 4th Fourth Annual Native American Cultural Awareness Conference 9 a.m.-6 p.m. Tuesday, April 6 in the LBJ Student Cente]]></description>
		<link>http://www.sanmarcosmercury.com/archives/12563</link>
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		<title>Evolution expert to deliver lecture at Texas State</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Jerry A. Coyne, professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolution at the University of Chicago, will present an evening talk and book signing at 7 p.m. Tuesday, March 23, at the Alkek Library Teaching Theatre on the campus of Texas State University.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.sanmarcosmercury.com/archives/12530</link>
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		<title>Theater students bring home 15 awards from regional festival</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Students in the Texas State University theater department recently participated in the Kennedy Center’s regional American College Theater Festival, garnering 15 total awards and three trips to the national festival in Washington.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.sanmarcosmercury.com/archives/12528</link>
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		<title>Freethought San Marcos: Changing American’s distrust of evolution</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Freethought San Marcos: A column
 by LAMAR W. HANKINS
 
Evolution is science, but most Americans don’t understand it.  Only 39% of Americans accept the theory of evolution, while nearly all probably accept the theory ...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.sanmarcosmercury.com/archives/12517</link>
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		<title>&#8216;Empty Bowl&#8217; project dishes out funds for food bank</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The “Empty Bowls Project” in Buda last weekend raised $1,900 for the Hays County Food Bank, with about 100 local residents turning out to the event.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.sanmarcosmercury.com/archives/12520</link>
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		<title>Women&#8217;s golf enters final tourney round in second</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Texas State women’s golf team finished the first day of action at the Claud Jacobs Intercollegiate Tournament in second place with a 37-over-par score of 613 at the Victoria Club on Sunday afternoon.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.sanmarcosmercury.com/archives/12524</link>
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		<title>Hays County considers implications of stricter EPA ozone standards</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hays County officials, along with other governments in the region, are considering a statement in support of the Environmental Protection Agency’s proposed stricter air quality standards, but seeking wiggle room to come into compliance.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.sanmarcosmercury.com/archives/12508</link>
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		<title>Kyle council removes city manager from dais</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Kyle’s newly elected mayor and two new councilmembers flexed their political muscle in their first meeting since taking their oaths of office, voting to push City Manager Tom Mattis off the dais and onto a side table with the rest of the administrative staff.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.sanmarcosmercury.com/archives/12503</link>
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		<title>Big Scissors: 03/12/10</title>
		<description><![CDATA[San Marcos Area Chmaber of Commerce welcomes CHICK-FIL-A.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.sanmarcosmercury.com/archives/12499</link>
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		<title>Bobcat baseball faces Penn State in three-game series</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Texas State baseball team will wrap up its spring break schedule this weekend when they host Penn State in a three-game series, beginning 6:30 p.m. Friday .]]></description>
		<link>http://www.sanmarcosmercury.com/archives/12495</link>
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		<title>City to offer rebates for energy efficiency</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The City of San Marcos Public Services Department has implemented two new programs to encourage energy efficiency.]]></description>
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