Between rain showers Wednesday afternoon burglars managed to get away with a $20,000 tractor, a flatbed trailer and grounds keeping equipment from the Hays Youth Sports Complex on FM 2770, said Jeff Reeves, Hays Youth Baseball/Softball president. “It’s a sickening feeling when you open the doors to the container and the tractor is just gone,” [...]
On May 9, the small towns of the area will once again join with their larger neighbors, holding elections to fill city council positions. Niederwald has three positions to fill on its council. As of Tuesday afternoon, four residents had filed to run, including Charles Bisson, Shirley Shirey and incumbent Monique Boitnott. The fourth, Harvey [...]
Hays CISD is down to one contested school board race, following Rahm McDaniel’s withdrawal from the District 3 election. McDaniel, a marketing strategist and chair of the Buda Planning and Zoning Commission, said he backed out of the race after talking with the other candidate, Bert Bronaugh. “I think elections are about real alternatives and [...]
It was the summer of ’69, and money was tight at the newly-consolidated Hays school district. The Kyle and Buda independent school districts had recently made the controversial decision to join together, meaning a new campus had to be built midway between the two towns. “We had money to build a high school, but we [...]
In an alternate version of reality, the $787 billion American Recovery and Reinvestment Act would come with a friendly how-to manual – perhaps “The Idiot’s Guide to the Stimulus Package” or “Economic Recovery for Dummies, 2009.” But in this version of reality, small town officials have to figure it out on their own. In the [...]
JP Pct. 5 Scott Cary ruled Wednesday that Center Food Market can retain its food license if management keeps the convenience store free of bugs and stocks its shelves with unexpired food. “The way I see it I’m here to get some resolution to this situation,” Cary said. The signed agreement mandates another hearing on [...]
A man accused of sending threatening emails to his estranged wife while watching her through the windows of her Kyle trailer is now in federal custody in Alabama. Ronald McKinney, 43, was arrested without incident by U.S. Marshals in Birmingham last Thursday, March 12 on a probation violation warrant, said Deputy U.S. Marshal James Nolan. [...]
In front of a packed house and with elections just two months down the road, Buda councilmembers unanimously shot down a land use planning amendment that would have allowed U.S. Foodservice to build an office headquarters and warehouse facility on Buda’s east side in the Sunfield development. “I think that the real test of leadership [...]
In the race for sales tax receipt dominance, Kyle continues rising in the ranks, according to March reports from the Comptroller’s office. January was a profitable month for businesses in Kyle, with the Comptroller returning about $194,000 to the city coffers. That’s an 18 percent increase from the same time last year. Buda continues to [...]
Many years ago I wrote a column about my favorite words. You will be sure to find them in this column. I had a tizzy when the stock market began to plummet and I saw the little luxuries of my retirement disappear. Thanks to Franklin Roosevelt, I still have Social Security if all else fails. [...]
