Congratulations to Destiny Nielson for being chosen to participate in the 2008 Texas Governor’s School at Midwestern State University. The TGS is a three-week, residential program for rising Texas 10th and 11th graders. One hundred participants were selected (50% male/50% female) in proportion to the number of students in each of the 20 Educational Service [...]
Watch your shipping Mike Jackson with Buda Postal Station reports that, with the strike by the Chicago-area Teamsters, local businesses should remember that their shipping could be affected. Jackson says the Local 705 has its own contract with UPS. The vote to strike by Local 705 was 2993 for, 232 against. Ready to open Still [...]
I have only been in Buda for just over two years, but in those two years I have seen a lot of change. Sometimes we fight change sometime we embrace it, but one thing is for sure we can never completely control it. People come and go, businesses open and close, the economy goes up [...]
HaysCAN has awarded the Hays Trinity Groundwater Conservation District a research grant in the amount of $3,800 to further the District’s mission of preserving, protecting and equitably managing groundwater in the Trinity Aquifer that many north Hays County residents currently rely on for their water supply. HaysCAN president Charles O’Dell noted that despite being handicapped [...]
Audio books rock! I’ve probably listened to hundreds of audio books during the years I’ve been commuting to downtown Austin. Those books may have kept me from losing my mind. In fact, listening to all of those books just might have expanded my mind. The Buda Public Library has an impressive collection of audio books [...]
Josephine A. Cuellar, 53, of Kyle, passed away Sunday, July 27, 2008. She was the ultimate wife, mom and grandma. She is survived by her husband, three children and six grandchildren. Services will be private. Memorials and guestbook online at http://wcfish.com
Wilburn Don O’Neal of Dale, died July 27, 2008. He was born July 18, 1946, in Collin County, TX. He grew up in Ladonia and lived most of his working life in the Dallas and Austin area. He moved to Buda in August 1982 and established a commercial Insulation business. The family business took its [...]
After years of lowering the tax rate, Kyle is facing a new fiscal year with a budget calling for an 8-cent tax hike and 26 new employees. “We’ve just reached a time where service demands are there, and we just have to step up and get it to where people want it to be,” Kyle [...]
With sales tax revenues sliding and debt payments coming due, the city of Buda is eyeing a tight-belted budget and a property tax hike. Monday night, councilmembers faced a $7.5 million Fiscal Year 2008-09 budget based on a tax rate of 25 cents per $100 of property valuation, up 33 percent from 18.7 cents this [...]
If voter turnout is slow, the candidates vying for Place 5 on the council say its not because they haven’t been pounding the pavement. “The turnout hasn’t been what we were hoping for,” said Lucy Johnson who will face off against Bob Straub, Chad Benninghoff and Ron Barrera. Election Day is Aug. 9. Early voting [...]
