Hays County children in foster care will   have the opportunity to participate in more extra-curricular activities and Child Protective Services will have more support in pursuing professional training due to the donations of one governmental body, one nonprofit foundation and one individual. The Co...

Staff Report Hays County Tax Assessor-Collector Jenifer O’Kane reminds property owners that 2019 property taxes must be paid in full by Friday, Jan. 31, to avoid penalties and interest. “There are a variety of payment options available,” O’Kane said. “And if you wait until the 31st, chances are you ...

By Chase Rogers The Springs Family YMCA has begun the spring session of its LIVESTRONG at YMCA program, a program poised to help mitigate the side effects of cancer treatment on survivors. Members chosen for the program undergo physical exercises to improve muscle mass, strength, flexibility and end...

Staff Report A partnership between Texas Disposal Systems (TDS) and the city of Kyle means the Heroes Memorial Park will soon become a reality. Excitement was evident at Tuesday’s council meeting as veterans and first responders gathered around Bob Gregory, president and principal owner of TDS, as h...

Submitted Report It connects some of the fasting growing communities in all of Texas, and now SH 21 – on the eastern border of Hays County – is being studied to make it easier, and safer, to travel. The state highway, also known as Camino Real, because it follows roughly along the old Spanish “King’...

Staff Reports An unexpired Kyle City Council seat for District 6, that was held by council member Daphne Tenorio, is expected to be filled by a special election Saturday. The seat remains open after Tenorio resigned in order to run for the office of Hays County Tax Assessor-Collector. Two candidates...

The patient, Kyle resident Brianna Bonnet, says the new treatment for her lymphoma turned her blood cells into “ninjas.” Her doctor is a bit more scientific in his explanation. Bonnet, 34 and a kindergarten teacher in Austin, began receiving CAR-T, a new form of immunotherapy, in 2018, and she was t...

A small but determined group of opponents to Kinder Morgan’s Permian Highway Pipeline gathered in downtown Kyle for the first of two protests last week. Carrying signs that said “Safe pipelines don’t exist” and “Clean energy now,” they encouraged passing motorists to honk their support, and many did...

“From our family to yours, welcome to Kyle.” Those were the words of Kyle City Manager Scott Sellers last week at the groundbreaking for ENF Kyle Technology LLC on Kohler’s Crossing in the master planned Plum Creek community. Sellers and other officials had only warm words for the new business despi...

By the age of 104, most people would have had their fill of birthday presents. But Betty X. Davis isn’t most people. As her birthday approached in November, Davis sent out a call for presents – but not for herself. Rather, she sought donations of children’s books that she in turn donated to the libr...