Kyle-based Xtreme Power, which engineers and manufactures storage and management systems for wind- and solar-generated electricity grids, announced this week it had secured $29.5 million in additional investment from venture capital firms.
Former Kyle City Manager Tom Mattis is seeking to become the top administrator just down the interstate in the city of San Marcos, where the city manager was fired last month.
Candidates for state and county elective offices disclosed their campaign contributions and expenditures for the first half of the year in a filing due last week.
Kyle officials have agreed to send back a little more than half of $2.5 million the city was awarded two years ago from Hays County voter-approved bond funds to develop a regional park around a recreation center no longer on the city’s drawing board.
An 80-year-old man and his son lodged formal complaints on Monday, claiming they were roughed up without justification last month by Hays County Sheriff’s Office deputies responding to a dispute between neighbors in Woodcreek.
An independent examiner ordered San Marcos police officer Paul Stephens reinstated to the force after finding that he did not use excessive force and attempt to impede an investigation of a melee at a downtown bar last August. This is the dashboard camera video of the incident from Stephen’s patrol car.
UPDATED 3:04 p.m. JULY 8: Due to rain, this week’s concert has been moved to the San Marcos Activity Center, 501 East Hopkins Street. Grammy Award-winning folk singer-songwriter Terri Hendrix, a San Marcos native, will perform weather permitting at the Summer in the Park Series tonight.
Invoking the Mayberry RFD ideal, Plum Creek’s sleepy streets of front porches and plank board homes has become something of a model for Central Texas developers who lay claim to the New Urbanist mantel.
The corridor cities are hosting fireworks displays this weekend to celebrate Independence Day with all due “pop” and circumstance.
Austin Community College will hold a public hearing on its service plan for Hays CISD at 7 p.m. Wednesday, July 7 at Buda Elementary School, 300 N. Main St. in Buda. An advertisement in this week’s Free Press incorrectly said the hearing is on Thursday, July 7.
