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Sts. Peter & Paul Church honors 'little parishioner' Virginia Hollis who died at Camp Mystic
Days after floodwaters swept through Camp Mystic and other parts of Central Texas, rescuers recovered the body of camper, ...
Girls as young as 7 were startled awake by flooding that devastated their beloved Camp Mystic. How the deadly tragedy unfolded
The emergency weather alert had come early Fourth of July morning: There would be life-threatening flash flooding in Kerr County, Texas. And Camp Mystic – an all-girls Christian camp situated ...
FEMA removed dozens of Camp Mystic buildings from 100-year flood map before expansion, records show
Federal regulators repeatedly granted appeals to remove Camp Mystic’s buildings from their 100-year flood map, as the camp ...
Camp Mystic Owners’ Legacy: ‘If You’re a Camper, You Know Who They Are’
For decades, Dick and Tweety Eastland presided over Camp Mystic with a kind of magisterial benevolence that alumni well past ...
Body of 8-year-old Bellville cowgirl who loved rodeo being escorted home from Kerrville today
A Camp Mystic camper will be escorted home to Bellville today by law enforcement agencies. Virginia Hollis, 8, was "a pure, ...
Who’s to Blame for the Camp Mystic Disaster?
When a reporter asked Texas Governor Greg Abbott who is to blame for the deaths of more than 100 people in this month’s ...
Lamster: What should a Camp Mystic memorial look like?
For grieving communities, the kinds of public memorials familiar from history — stone cenotaphs, bronze monuments and statues ...
How Summer Camp Devastated by Floods Responded to Middle-of-the-Night Alert Before the Water Drowned Them
When Camp Mystic, a Christian summer camp for girls nestled in Texas Hill Country, experienced catastrophic flooding on July ...