Gonzales Inquirer

07/21/2025

07/21/2025

🎉 Back to School Bash – Happening This Weekend! 🎉

Gonzales ISD is excited to share this community event hosted by Providence Missionary Baptist Church and Pastor Gary Lynn Clack — a fun way to kick off the new school year!

📅 Saturday, July 26th
🕔 5:00–8:00 PM
📍 1020 St Andrew Street, Gonzales, TX 78629

✨ Free for all families!
Enjoy food, fun, a waterslide, water games, and giveaways as we get ready for the new school year!

For more info, contact Coach Donna Smith at 830-263-0942.

📸 See flyer for full details!

07/21/2025

07/19/2025

07/18/2025

Annie Oakley Pest Control will be conducting Mosquito Fogging🦟 for the City of Gonzales and JB Wells area beginning Monday, July 21, 2025 through July 31, 2025 from 11:00 pm to 3:00 am each day.

07/18/2025

Update: Sold Out!

Thank you for your continued support!

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Tomorrow (7/19/25) at 12 noon, please join us in supporting local volunteers at their Annual BBQ.
To ensure availability, arrive early as plate sales tend to sell out quickly.
Plates will be sold at the Nixon Fire Station.

07/18/2025

City of Gonzales, Texas Council meetings.

07/18/2025

Have you ever wanted to study the Bible in the comfort of your own home? Well, now's your chance! Ralph McGarity is leading a class that you can attend remotely. Everyone is welcome, regardless of their knowledge of the Bible or church background.

Remote Format: You can attend by phone or Zoom. If you have a phone, smartphone, tablet, or computer, you can participate. You can learn the Bible, meet neighbors, and make new friends in the Gonzales community.

Description: The Community HomeWord class provides Gonzales with an in-depth look at the Bible, and it will soon begin a study of the Book of Leviticus. We’ll learn about the book’s five themes: a holy God, a holy priesthood, a holy people, a holy land, and a holy Savior. We have participants from many church backgrounds and walks of life. We use the book series by Bible expert Warren Wiersbe.* Before meeting each week, Ralph sends out a chapter summary from which he bases the week's lesson. During the session, we study each Bible passage to extract God's message from it, guided by Wiersbe's insights. If God has been calling you to study His scripture or learn more about Him, this class may be the answer.

We will begin studying the book of Leviticus on Monday, July 21, at 5:30 p.m., so that would be a perfect time to join us.

Your Commitment: By attending these one-hour weekly sessions, you will deepen your understanding of the Bible and God. If you prepare in advance by reading the scripture and the weekly summary, you will gain even more of God's wisdom.

Audience: We encourage both those who are homebound and those who are not to attend.

Prerequisites and Participation: No prior knowledge of the Bible is necessary to benefit from this class. Your verbal participation is welcome but optional. So, if you are a shy person or feel you don't know much about the Bible, don't worry.

Technology requirements: If you know how to dial a phone, you can dial in and participate by listening and speaking. If you want a more visual experience, you can use Zoom. Ralph has several years of experience hosting Zoom meetings, and he will gladly help you get set up.

Meeting Time: The class meets every Monday from 5:30-6:30 p.m.

Expenses: None.

Next step: If interested, please call or text 830-672-6721 or email [email protected]. Or, if you have used Zoom before, you can click on this link on December 11, 2023, at 5:30:
https://www.bit.ly/CommunityHomeWord
Meeting ID, if required: 896 1128 5778
Passcode if Required: 692468

* Dr. Warren W. Wiersbe (1929-2019) was an internationally known Bible teacher, author, and conference speaker. He served as the pastor of Moody Church in Chicago from 1971 to 1978. He wrote over 170 books, including the popular BE series, which has sold over four million copies. The Evangelical Christian Publishers Association (ECPA) awarded him the Gold Medallion Lifetime Achievement.

07/18/2025

The City of Gonzales will celebrate the conjunction of Fiesta Patrias and the 200th anniversary of the town’s founding with a big Fiesta Gonzales Music Festival, BBQ Cookoff and Car Show this September at the JB Wells Arena.

The City of Gonzales will celebrate the conjunction of Fiesta Patrias and the 200th anniversary of the town’s founding with a big Fiesta Gonzales Music Festival, BBQ Cookoff and Car Show this …

07/18/2025

Region L has released its 2026 Initially Prepared Plan (IPP) — 1,172 pages proposing many water management strategies.

For residents of Gonzales County, the IPP raises serious concerns. The IPP proposes more groundwater production and expanded export — despite the Gonzales County Underground Water Conservation District having already permitted more than 92,000 acre-feet per year of groundwater from the Carrizo-Wilcox aquifer, most of it allocated to exporters.

The Texas 2026 regional water planning process is underway — a critical initiative to plan the state's future water supply. Gonzales and Caldwell Counties are part of Region L, the South …

07/18/2025

The following opinion was approved by the GCUWCD board of directors at their July 8 meeting and was submitted to the Inquirer for publication:

Here in Gonzales County, we know that water is life. It fills our wells, feeds our crops, sustains our businesses, and keeps our communities thriving. But more and more, we’re seeing confusion and misinformation about who’s looking out for our water and why it matters.

As the folks at the Gonzales County Underground Water Conservation District (GCUWCD), we’d like to set the record straight.

Here in Gonzales County, we know that water is life. It fills our wells, feeds our crops, sustains our businesses, and keeps our communities thriving. But more and more, we’re seeing confusion …