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(New Braunfels, TX)  --  The Comal County Metro Narcotics Task Force, which includes officers from the Comal County Sheriff’s Office and New Braunfels Police, took down an alleged meth dealer this week. On Wednesday the Task Force received information that a delivery of drugs was headed to New Braunfels and officers began surveillance on the alleged dealer, following him to an address in the 600 block of Bus. 35.

(New Braunfels, TX)  --  More bad news for a New Braunfels based investment company, Retirement Value LLC. Previously on KGNB, we’ve reported about the cease and desist order issued to the company from the State Securities Board, while investigators look into allegations that the company defrauded its customers by buying and re-selling insurance policies, without having the proper paperwork filed with the government.

(New Braunfels, TX)  --  The New Braunfels Utilities Board will vote on their next fiscal year budget and their 5-year capital improvement plan when they meet today at noon. The meeting will begin with a report from CEO Paula DiFonzo, followed by a financial report and the consent agenda, before the board considers approval of their budget for fiscal year 2011. That 102-million dollar operating budget is actually 16-million dollars less than the operating budget from last year, which reflects a 17-million dollar difference in the projected power purchase cost over last year.

(New Braunfels, TX)  --  As we’ve reported for some time now, plans have been in the works to bring a Buc-ee’s Gas Station and Travel Center to the I-35 corridor in New Braunfels. And those plans took a giant step forward this week when New Braunfels City Council approved adding 13 acres of land into the Town Center at Creekside TIRZ, or Tax Increment Reinvestment Zone.

(New Braunfels, TX)  --  We are now less than a month away from the start of the next school year, with classes in both the Comal ISD and the New Braunfels ISD starting on August 23rd, and local teachers are due back for in-service days starting August 16th. And in the NBISD, district staff have made all of their back-to-school information easily available on their website. That includes school supply lists, registration dates, dates for ‘Meet the Teacher’ nights, the district’s full calendar for the school year, and details about immunizations.

(New Braunfels, TX)  --  In a special meeting tomorrow night, the New Braunfels 4B Board could end up recommending more than half a million dollars in spending to New Braunfels City Council, mostly in incentives for one business that wants to relocate to New Braunfels. First up though, following Council’s action on Monday to lease hangar space at the city airport, the 4B Board will look at approving 100-thousand dollars for improvements to that hangar, which for some time now, has been used by the New Braunfels Fire Department.

(New Braunfels, TX)  --  Last week, the Comal ISD School Board approved pay raises for employees in the district, across the board.  Despite tough economic times, the Comal ISD has been able to put 5-million dollars towards employee compensation, including 4-million dollars that comes from cost savings in the past fiscal year budget and from changes to the district's Blue Cross/Blue Shield insurance package.  Under the plan approved last week, teachers would get a step-increase and a retention bonus totaling 12-hundred dollars.  Professional employees will

(New Braunfels, TX)  --  Over 200 local National Guard soldiers are returning home from war this weekend. That’s the word from commanders with the New Braunfels National Guard Armory, who have announced the details about the welcome home ceremony for those troops. That ceremony is now set for this Saturday morning at 11 in Landa Park, and will feature welcome home speeches by local dignitaries and military officials.

(New Braunfels, TX)  --  More details have been released about the stabbing of a 64-year old New Braunfels woman, in broad daylight, as she left the local Wal-Mart Sunday morning, and the arrest of the man police say is responsible.  The woman is reportedly still in stable condition at University Hospital in San Antonio, after she was airlifted there following the 10:40am incident, where she suffered multiple stab wounds to the chest.

(New Braunfels, TX)  --  Phase 1 of the Hwy 46 Widening Project, often known as the Pass-Thru project, is now complete, and a ribbon cutting ceremony is set for this morning to officially open that stretch of road to the public, just a few days ahead of the opening of the new HEB location at the intersection of Hwy 46 and Loop 337. That ribbon cutting is this morning at 9 on the sidewalk at the northeast corner of 46 and Loop 337.  To hear the full report on the progress of that project, just click the link below.  

(Comal County, TX)  --  This past weekend was marred by several major traffic accidents, sending several people the hospital, some with serious injuries. 

(New Braunfels, TX)  --  More details are emerging following the near-drowning incident at the Spring Fed Pool in Landa Park on Thursday. As we previously reported, a 5-year old boy was found floating in the Spring Fed Pool in Landa Park just before 1:30 Thursday. And it wasn’t just New Braunfels EMS crews that helped save his life. A local girl scout, an adult Girl Scout volunteer, and a nearby lifeguard also played roles in saving the boy’s life.

(New Braunfels, TX)  --  The local VFW Post is preparing to once again hoist Old Glory over their location on Peace Avenue. Their new US flag will be raised for the first time at a ceremony tomorrow, honoring the return of the red, white, and blue to the VFW Post and to honor the Korean War Veterans Armistice Day. Local Boy Scouts and ROTC members will be on hand as the VFW post raises their new flag which replaces a flag that had been flying over the post for many years, but had become too tattered, and had been taken down.