When it comes to funding streets, hospitals, roads and a host of other things Hays County is going to need in the next 10 years, residents have some explaining to do. And they’re not alone. Three weeks have passed since the U.S. Census preferred to receive completed forms for the 2020 Constitutional...

More salvos were fired last week in the ongoing fight between Hill Country landowners, environmentalists and energy giant Kinder Morgan. The Wimberley Valley Watershed Association (WVWA) and the Trinity Edwards Springs Protection Association (TESPA) have jointly threatened to sue Kinder Morgan after...

Above, flowers and other memorials adorn the patrol car of slain SMPD Officer Justin Putnam. For the second time in 16 months, a San Marcos Police Officer has been killed in the line of duty while on a call related to domestic violence. On April 18, 31-year-old Officer Justin Putnam was fatally shot...

Kyle city leaders are anticipating a continuing drop in sales tax revenues and rising delinquency rates in water and wastewater bills as the COVID-19 crisis continues, with deficits possibly extending into the next fiscal year. The city anticipates a FY 2021 budget to be much like FY 2020 but minus ...

    A Dripping Springs High School engineering teacher and some students are poised to begin producing face shields. Through the use of 3-D printers, teacher Had Jadeja has been working in the school’s Fab Lab to develop a prototype, and some students with 3-D printers at home have offered to produc...

Most years, the city of Kyle would be around this time hiring key summer personnel like the main lifeguard for the city’s swimming pool and head counselor for the Parks and Recreation Department’s summer camps for youth and teens. We all know, however, that this is not most years. Summer activities ...

“Deacon Jim” Miller, the prime suspect in the ambush of Pat Garrett and many other murders-forhire, was lynched in Ada, Oklahoma on Apr. 19, 1909. A diabolical genius who never depended upon mere luck, Jim Miller was not just another fast gun. Besides being a professional killer, perhaps the first o...

Marisa Renteria, mother of a 3-year-old and a newborn, recently saw her son’s vocabulary drop from 50 words to 10; he was diagnosed with speech delay. After attending school, her son’s vocabulary sprang back to 60 words. But since schools have closed with no end in sight, Renteria worries that her s...

The city of Kyle recently opened the 3.5 mile Plum Creek Trail to the public, while urging that “social distancing” be observed by all who get out to enjoy the outdoors. The Plum Creek trail connects Waterleaf Park to Lake Kyle Park and is part of the proposed Emerald Crown Trail intended to connect...

In what was an admittedly hard decision, the Kyle City Council voted to remove a 51-inch live oak known as the Old Stagecoach Road Tree at its April 8 meeting, but they say their thinking was swayed by the fact its wood will go to good use. Prior to the vote during the council’s online meeting, Mayo...