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🌱 How a restroom newsletter just won New Braunfels Utilities a statewide award

New Braunfels, Texas Patch AM: a 4 min read

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In today's newsletter:

  • How a restroom newsletter just won New Braunfels Utilities a statewide award
  • Why New Braunfels is being touted as the ultimate summer water escape
  • New Braunfels man accused in multi-county deer poaching and drug case

Also on today's calendar: Texas Small Business Showcase & Expo and 5 more events.

Today's riddle: What do sweet potatoes wear to bed? 🤔 (Answer below!)

Weather forecast:

  • Friday: Humid; a stray p.m. t-storm, with a high of 91 and low of 74 degrees. 🌶 Hot!
  • Saturday: Humid; a stray p.m. t-storm, temps: high: 91, low: 74.
  • Sunday: Humid with a thunderstorm, with a high of 88 and low of 73 degrees.

📰 News we're reading

• New Braunfels Utilities communications team wins statewide award for internal campaign (herald-zeitung.com) — New Braunfels Utilities’ communications team just brought home a first-place statewide TAMIO award for its quirky “News Flush” internal signage campaign, which started as restroom newsletters and grew into a key employee communications tool. Leaders say the creative effort is helping keep NBU staff more informed and connected so they can better serve local customers.
   

• The perfect summer retreat is a day's drive from Louisiana with the world's largest water park (nola.com) — If you’re looking to cool off close to home, New Braunfels is being highlighted as a summer escape with tubing on the spring-fed Comal River and the massive Schlitterbahn waterpark. The piece also spotlights historic downtown renovations, boutique stays like Sophie's Gasthaus and the revamped Faust Hotel, plus new restaurant options that build on the town’s German heritage and growing tourism scene.
   

• Texas deer hunter faces 74 charges in poaching case (outdoornews.com) — A New Braunfels man is accused of an extensive poaching spree, with Texas Parks and Wildlife saying he faces 74 charges tied to illegally killing at least 13 white-tailed bucks in Comal, Hays, and Bexar counties. Investigators allege he shot deer from roads and neighborhoods, left carcasses behind, and was later linked to the scenes during a 2025 arrest that also uncovered methamphetamine and marijuana.
   

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💬 Chatter

What your neighbors are talking about on social media

  • 🐜 PSA… we’ve been noticing rapidly growing activity around the house involving ants we don’t recognize.
    Our exterminator just did our quarterly service and educated us. Sharing what Google told me about this concerning newcomer… it isn’t pleasant and I… (Nextdoor Copper Ridge)
  • If you hear a steady tap-tap-tap in your backyard, look up and you might spot a red-bellied woodpecker hard at work.
    Don't let the name fool you, though. You'll actually have a tough time seeing any red on its belly, just a faint pink smudge if the light hits it… (Nextdoor Vintage Oaks)
  • Lowe's posted a job opening for Retail Sales - Part Time in New Braunfels. Apply here.
  • Panda Express posted a job opening for Assistant Manager (P1-1365142-1) in New Braunfels. Apply here. You can search for other jobs near New Braunfels here.

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  • Details revealed in fatal Budget Inn shooting in north Austin (kxan.com)

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-- The Patch AM Team

P.S. The answer to today's riddle: Yammies! (Thank you Lynda S. for sending it in!)
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