As the county grapples with a $1.7 million revenue shortfall, the falling prices at the pump may offer some relief. About $225,000 of Hays County’s projected fuel expenditures for the 2008-09 fiscal year have been frozen after the cost of gasoline plummeted. When the county wrote the budget last summer and fall, gas prices hovered [...]
Lurking oil and natural gas drillers could be forced away from Kyle after city councilmembers unanimously approved an action to restrict drilling 1,000 feet from residential and commercial development. “We need some kind of regulatory control,” city manager Tom Mattis said at the July 7 council meeting. In the past two years, the city has [...]
A consulting firm has been chosen to conduct an extensive review of the Hays County criminal justice system and come up with ideas to streamline services as well as free-up jail space and funds. On Tuesday, Hays County Commissioners told their consulting firm Broaddus and Associates to hire Austin-based MGT of America, Inc., to complete [...]
More than 165 years after the founding of Hays County, its namesake Texas Ranger is riding into the 21st century. Filming is nearly complete in the short documentary film Captain Jack: The Story of John Coffee Hays, a project of the Hays County Historical Commission. “We want to help young people in our community realize [...]
County Court at Law Judge Howard Warner remains in critical condition at Central Texas Medical Center as of Wednesday morning. Warner, a Democrat, held the judgeship for 27 years. Despite battling a cancer relapse, he had told friends that he hoped to serve out the remainder of his seventh consecutive term, which was due to [...]
In a brand new Army recruiting station in Buda, Alden Nascimento sat with a recruiter autographing papers as he prepared to join the service. The 29-year-old isn’t your typical recruit. He’s been hit hard by the sagging job market after losing a special education teacher gig in Utah, where schools are being forced to cut [...]
After nearly two years of drought in Central Texas, we could be headed for floods. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced last Thursday that the El Nino weather system is back in the Pacific. El Nino conditions typically bring wetter and cooler weather to Central Texas in the winter months, often in the form [...]
Recently I took issue with county government and I wrote a letter to Commissioner Jeff Barton. In the interests of full disclosure, it ought to be recognized that my father and the commissioner’s grandfather were business partners for many years and the families have been close for generations. However, I have taken issue with the [...]
I read with interest each Wednesday and Thursday in our local newspaper about the sites of the new Kyle library. Not once have I ever read a person write a letter to the editor about the condition of the American flag that hangs at the Kyle post office. How ironic what is important to us. [...]
The Barnabas Connection of the Wimberley United Methodist Church is currently seeking information from customers of Pedernales Electric Company (PEC). Specifically, we are looking for stories that relate to PEC’s response to electricity customers with health issues and/or a demonstrated financial need that may have made paying the electricity bill difficult. Please provide as much [...]
