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A young green sea turtle will soon call San Antonio home.

The sea turtle was rescued from the Texas coast after she was found with paralyzed back flippers, according to a press release. Her injuries are believed to have been caused by a boat.

She’s been rehabilitating her injuries at Amos Rehabilitation Keep in Port Aransas and will permanently join her new family at SEA LIFE San Antonio on March 1.

The sea turtle will be released into the 155,000-gallon ocean tunnel exhibit and her name will be announced shortly after.

“Guests will be able to spot the aquarium’s first sea turtle up-close in San Antonio’s only underwater ocean tunnel exhibit which has more than 1,000 creatures including sharks and stingrays,” the press release states.

SEA LIFE is located inside the Shops at Rivercenter at 849 E. Commerce Street.

The San Antonio City Council amended the city’s noise ordinances on Thursday to limit the hours during which construction crews can do any exterior building construction work, including demolition and excavation.

It seems like every year the technology industry is getting more and more prevalent in San Antonio.

The city has seen substantial growth over the last 10 years and Geekdom’s CEO is optimistic for the future in the Alamo City.

“It’s been pretty exponential, to be honest with you. We’ve seen some amazing companies and ideas pop up within the space and even outside of the space, some that have grown very significantly over the past five years that I’ve been involved,” Geekdom CEO Charles Woodin said.

Woodin started in business development for Geekdom and is now the CEO — and a big part of the company creating thousands of jobs.

“2,489 jobs have been created by companies within Geekdom. And the thing that I love about that number so much is that these are jobs that never existed before. They didn’t move here. They were created out of somebody’s mind and it led to those people ending up getting hired and effecting the economic growth here in San Antonio,” Woodin said.

A large part of Geekdom is helping young innovators grow their business. And they need to raise money to do that.

“We’ve seen over $422 million raised by companies. And when you think about that number, it’s just a very large number and I think it’s going to continue to grow over the next few years,” Woodin said.

Geekdom is set to release their 2021 Impact Report on Wednesday, which illustrates the economic effects of the company. A big concentration of the report is on diversity.

“Of the 80 companies that are currently a part of our programs, 59 of them are led by a minority in some way shape or form, and it’s amazing to see. So that’s nearly three quarters of the companies,” Woodin said.

So the question is: Can Geekdom and the Alamo City sustain the growth?

“I really do think so, and the reason why I think so is because it’s not just Geekdom anymore. There’s a lot of other players that have popped up. San Antonio is doing some amazing things. The innovation centers about to open up, Velocity Texas over on the East Side are doing some amazing things. The West Side is about to step up and do some things over there with one of the startups, Iris, that came from Geekdom moving over there,” Woodin said.

All in all, Woodin said it is an exciting time for San Antonio and is a great week for Geekdom, which includes the Thursday Innovation Forum — which is going to be focusing on careers for women in tech.

The XFL, under its latest reincarnation, plans to launch in 2023 – several months after the new USFL kicks off this April.

An annual St. Patrick’s Day tradition in San Antonio will continue this year — the dyeing of the San Antonio River along the River Walk.

The river has been dyed green, and jokingly renamed the River Shannon, every year since 1968.

This year, the dyeing will take place from 1-3 p.m. on March 17 and March 19.

“It will stay dyed a couple of days but not be as strong the second day,” Visit San Antonio spokesperson Maggie Thompson told KSAT.

Thompson also said this year will be bigger than any other as additional sections of the river will be dyed.

“We are dying the Museum Reach up to the Pearl on Saturday the nineteenth,” said Thomspon. “We will also have another parade in that area after our regular parade.”

A St. Patrick’s Day parade will take place from 4-5 p.m. on March 19 along the 2.5 mile downtown stretch of the River Walk. The parade will start at Mad Dogs, located at 123 Losoya Street. A Luck of the Irish parade will follow and take place along the Museum Reach from 6-7 p.m.

Free viewing of the parade and dyeing of the river are available along the River Walk.

The dye is eco-friendly and is always dispersed behind a barge that carries a bagpiper.

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The embargo was announced Sunday, Feb. 13, reportedly in response to a threat posed toward a U.S. plant safety inspector in Mexico. Restauranteurs in Central Texas said the immediate effects have been muted but worry there could be trouble just around the corner in an industry that’s already been financially hammered. “I don’t think in the short-term restaurant operators can do much more than absorb another hit,” one CEO said.

A man and woman killed in an apparent murder-suicide at a West Side home on Monday morning have been identified by San Antonio police and family.

Gavino Daniel Rios, 50, and Joanne Sandoval, 41, were found fatally shot when the man’s brother went to check on him in the 100 block of Enrique Avenue, not far from West Commerce Street and Hortencia Avenue.

Police believe it may have been a murder-suicide but did not say who they believe pulled the trigger.

“Homicide detectives made location to further investigate the incident which appeared to not be the result of natural causes,” an early report from SAPD states.

The man’s brother told officers that he hadn’t heard from him in a few days, SAPD Chief William McManus said in a news briefing.

Family members of Sandoval gathered tearfully outside the home Monday evening.

Sandoval had been the longtime girlfriend Rios, who lived at the home.

The woman’s family members described a tumultuous relationship between the two. Neighbors also told police and KSAT that there was a lot of fighting, and McManus said there were “a number of calls” to the home.

Veronica Moncada, one of the woman’s sisters, said the family was feeling “very angry, very sad. This should have just been avoided.”

Sandoval’s family said the couple had a daughter who is less than a year old. She was with other family members at the time of the shooting.

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