By Anita Miller Proposed changes to the city of Kyle’s Residential Style Guide are intended to create a “higher standard” in neighborhood design, according to Development Director Howard Koontz. The City Council on Jan. 21 heard a presentation on amendments to the style guide. No action was taken, b...

By Anita Miller The Hays County Commissioners Court took what is being called a “huge” step in the journey towards lowering the jail population last week when they created a Magistrate Division that would serve both district courts and county courts-at-law. Funds for the division were set aside duri...

Our local state representative Erin Zwiener stopped by the Hays Free Press/News-Dispatch office to present our publisher Cyndy Slovak-Barton a resolution in recognition of her induction to the Texas Newspaper Foundation Hall of Fame. Congratulations Cyndy! RESOLUTION WHEREAS, Cyndy Slovak-Barton, aw...

Super Bowl weekend is a good time to take a look at the Souper Bowl of Caring, a national movement encouraging food and fund drives. With more than 25,000 Hays County residents considered food insecure, local participation by residents at local H-E-B stores and through their own fundraising means fo...

Staff Reports No, your Social Security number has not been suspended. As incredible as that idea even sounds, people across Texas and the nation have been told that in recent months, along with equally suspicious statements and request. It’s all part of what the Social Security Administration (SSA) ...

Relief for commuters waiting for the end of work on Burleson Street is but a few months away. According to Leon Barba, engineer for the city of Kyle, the project is still on track to be completed in June. As of Jan. 21, Barba reported the project is an estimated 73 percent complete with the section ...

Book signing at literary center Author and poet Adrian Matejka (above) will hold a reading and book signing 7:30 p.m. Friday, Feb. 7 at the Katherine Anne Porter Literary Center in Kyle. The event is free and open to the public. Matejka is the author of The Devil’s Garden and Mixology . His third co...

It was a long time in the making, but the new deal between the city of Kyle and Texas Disposal Systems (TDS) is a “win” for both, a city official says. The Kyle City Council approved the new, 15-year contract on Jan. 21 and it contains good news for both residences and businesses, said Kyle’s Chief ...

Michael Tobias handily won a seat on the Kyle City Council Saturday in an election that was nonetheless plagued by abysmally low voter turnout. The election was to fill the unexpired term of District 6 council member Daphne Tenorio, who resigned last month in order to pursue the Democratic nominatio...

Tense times for some residents in the Plum Creek neighborhood of Kyle came to an end on Saturday afternoon with the arrest of a 34-year-old Round Rock man. Kyle Police charged Trevor Gordon Dutson with burglary of a habitation and tampering with evidence. At the time of his arrest he also had two ou...