San Antonio school districts see remote learning stretching way into next year
Jan. 17, 2021
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Hannah Sturgis watches her son, Sol Jackson, 8, a third grader at Dr. Winn Murnin Elementary School, as he attends a class virtually at their home in San Antonio on Dec. 3.Lisa Krantz /Staff photographer
Nearly one year into the coronavirus pandemic, Eduardo Hernandez, superintendent of the Edgewood Independent School District, still doesn’t quite know what the next school year will look like for his students and staff.
Around Bexar County, he and other school leaders trying to plan for the fall are grappling with countless unknowns, from how much funding they will receive to the community spread of the coronavirus.
Opportunity of a lifetime - San Antonio s Burbank High School Wind Ensemble performs
Jan. 7, 2021
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Ricardo Ramirez, left, plays the trombone and Jase Flores plays the French horn with the Burbank High School Wind Ensemble at the Tobin Center for the Performing Arts in San Antonio on Thursday as they record a performance for the Texas Music Educators Association’s 2021 Clinic/Convention.Lisa Krantz /Staff photographerShow MoreShow Less
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Director of Bands Hector Trevino instructs members of the Burbank High School Wind Ensemble, including Jerrika Prado, from left, Trinity Gabreylski and Andrew Sanchez, at the Tobin Center for the Performing Arts in San Antonio on Thursday after they recorded a performance for the Texas Music Educators Association’s 2021 Clinic/Convention.Lisa Krantz /Staff photographerShow MoreShow Less
San Antonio breaks COVID-19 hospitalization record for third time this week
Jan. 7, 2021
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Paramedic Katheryn Wieding cleans the Superior Mobile Health ambulance after transferring a patient to a hospital on July 14 in San Antonio.Lisa Krantz /Staff photographer
For the third day in a row Thursday, San Antonio set new records for the number of people hospitalized with COVID-19 and for the number of people newly admitted to city hospitals to be treated for the disease caused by the coronavirus.
City and county officials for weeks have been warning that local hospitals will soon become overwhelmed if hospitalizations continue to increase at the current rate. Only 10 percent of the city’s hospital beds are still available for new patients.
Fatal shootings, crash mark New Year s Eve in San Antonio
Jan. 1, 2021
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SAPD and BCSO arrested one man after an altercation led to a police chase.Ken Branca
New Year’s Eve was a busy one for San Antonio police, who responded to at least three shootings and two car crashes.
With less than two hours left in 2020, a dispute over a missing cellphone triggered an exchange of gunfire that left an 18-year-old man dead and four others wounded.
A group of three men had gone to a trailer park in the 5300 block of Southcross Ranch Road to confront another group of three men about the missing phone, police said.
San Antonio surpasses 110,000 COVID-19 cases; 1,000 people hospitalized with the virus
Dec. 27, 2020
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Hospitalizations for the coronavirus in San Antonio are now approaching the level of the summer surge. Superior Mobile Health paramedics George Lombardo and Katheryn Wieding, right, transport a woman they were told was COVID-19 positive from an assisted living facility to a hospital in July in San Antonio.Lisa Krantz /Staff photographer
San Antonio’s total of coronavirus cases has surpassed 110,000 since March, and the city is on the verge of new business restrictions as hospitals admit a growing number of patients with COVID-19.
After three days of no coronavirus updates because of Christmas, city officials Sunday reported 4,426 new infections since Wednesday and 1,000 people in local hospitals, up from 945.