Squeezin’ the Juice by SVEA SAUER Can you imagine anything worse than being in the path of an atomic bomb as it explodes? If William Rivers Pitt is right we’ll have oceans of oil instead of salt and this is a fact, the oceans will die and everything in them. And after that, the earth. This is how it...

From the Crow’s Nest by CLINT YOUNTS All you coyotes out there need to watch out. The guv is packing heat! A few days back, our very own governor, Rick Perry, was out jogging near his rented mansion in west Austin when a vicious coyote sprang from the brush and attempted to feast on Gov. Perry’s new...

by SEAN KIMMONS After almost a year in the making, the proposed design of Kyle’s future library was finally unveiled to the city council last week. The 20,000-square-foot building, inspired by the architecture of the new city hall, will cost more than $3.5 million, nine percent over the original bud...

by SEAN KIMMONS Jennifer Hamzy (left) and Christina Nuñez at the 2009 Kyle Music Festival and Parade. (Photo by David White) Like a recurring nightmare, the botched Miss Kyle Pageant crept up on the Kyle City Council agenda again last week. The majority of the council expressed their disdain for the...

by BRAD ROLLINS KANETZKY Former trustee Joe Muñoz fell short in his bid to return to the Hays CISD school HERVOL board, drawing 164 votes (31.4 percent) to Marty Kanetzky’s 358 votes (68.6 percent). PICKETT Meanwhile, Diane Hervol won 337 votes (64.4 percent) to Jason Welch’s 186 votes (35.6 percent...

by BRAD ROLLINS HUBER On-again off-again plans for Texas 45 Southwest might be off for good if a Travis County commissioner succeeds in an effort to strip the roadway from the Capital Area Metropolitan Planning Organization’s 25-year master plan. After an hours-long discussion on Tuesday, the Travis...

by JEN BIUNDO Voting is underway in the election that will replace the last of the old guard leaders on the Pedernales Electric Cooperative board of directors. Members can also vote on a member bill of rights which will establish core rights, such as election safeguards and access to PEC meetings an...

by JEN BIUNDO This Thursday, Hays County law enforcement officials will gather on the steps of the county courthouse to commemorate their fallen comrades. “We are going to be honoring all officers in the state of Texas who lost their lives in the line of duty in the last two years,” said event organ...

STAFF REPORTS JOHNSON Kyle Mayor Lucy Johnson will join more than 200 other young elected officials in Washington, DC next week at the fifth annual convening of the national Young Elected Officials Network. The participants, elected officials from across the country, are all under the age of 35. The...

by JEN BIUNDO Hays County Sherriff’s officers are investigating two home burglaries that occurred last week near the Green Pastures neighborhood east of Kyle. The two crimes may be related, investigators say. In both cases, the burglars cut the lock of the chain link fence surrounding the property, ...