AUSTIN (KXAN) — One year after the July 2025 floods swept through the Texas Hill Country, the Community Foundation of the Texas Hill Country has launched the Texas Hill Country Flood Relief Fund for this year. The new fund will provide a trusted way for individuals, businesses and organizations to support the communities affected by the July […]
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How you can help as Texas Hill Country is inundated with rain, life-threatening flooding.
KERRVILLE, Texas — The Community Foundation of the Texas Hill Country has launched the Texas Hill Country Flood Relief Fund to support emergency assistance and long-term recovery efforts for communities impacted by the July 2026 flooding. You can donate to the Texas Hill Country Flood Relief Fund here. The nonprofit foundation said the fund will provide […]
Camp Mystic flood survivor finds hope through grief support after cousin’s death
A year after surviving the Camp Mystic flood that claimed her cousin Lulu’s life, 10-year-old Dot is finding hope in an unexpected place. Dot Quisenberry, a survivor of the Camp Mystic flood, is receiving grief support through Community Foundation grantee The WARM Place, a Fort Worth-based children’s grief center. https://www.cbsnews.com/texas/video/camp-mystic-flood-survivor-finds-hope-through-grief-support-after-cousins-death
Frost Bank opens first Kerrville branch, leans on organic growth and old ties
Frost Bank has opened its first branch in Kerrville, part of a statewide expansion strategy the bank says it has deliberately built without buying up competitors. Kevin Thompson, Frost’s Boerne market president and lead for Hill Country expansion, and Kyle Ogera, the market president of the Kerrville financial center, joined The Lead Live on Wednesday […]
LiftFund urges local businesses to apply for flood loan assistance
LiftFund is urging small business owners affected by recent flooding in Kerr County and Comfort, Texas, to apply now for the remaining funds available through a disaster recovery loan program offering zero percent interest financing. The program, established in partnership with The Community Foundation of the Texas Hill Country, aims to help local businesses recover, […]
Californians who survived wildfires now help Kerrville tell its flood story
Three visiting student workers helping build a permanent oral history archive of the July 4, 2025 flood say their own experiences surviving Los Angeles County’s catastrophic January 2025 wildfires shaped how they’re approaching interviews with Kerr County flood survivors — not as outside journalists, but as peers who’ve lived through their own community’s disaster. Andrew […]
Kerrville Pets Alive! honors animals lost in flood at ceremony
Pet owners and pet lovers gathered last Friday evening at the Kerrville Pets Alive! Safe House adjacent to the Schreiner University campus to remember the pets and other animals lost in the devastating flood last July 4. Unity of the Hill Country co-sponsored the event, which featured music by singer- songwriter Aaron Lacombe. “On July […]
Community invited to Guadalupe Park ribbon cutting ceremony
The Kerrville Parks and Recreation Department invites the community and visitors to its ribbon cutting ceremony celebrating the restoration of Guadalupe Park, 701 Guadalupe St, which has been closed since the July 2025 floods. The ceremony will take place on Friday, July 17, at 12:00 p.m. Newly restored features at Guadalupe Park include a full-size […]
Kerrville Christmas Lighting Corp. expands Merry on the Square, kicks off Christmas in July push
The Kerrville Christmas Lighting Corporation is getting an early start on the holidays, launching a Christmas in July campaign this week alongside plans to expand Merry on the Square and news that Tranquility Island’s lighting has been restored after last year’s flood. The Second Annual Merry on the Square is set for Saturday, Nov. 21, […]
A service of lament and hope
LOUISVILLE — One year after deadly floods devastated the Hill Country of Texas, First Presbyterian Church of Kerrville, Texas, gathered for worship Sunday to lament and to hope. Watch the moving 96-minute service here. “We can hold both lament and hope together, especially as we remember the tragic events that shaped our community a year ago,” said the […]