HAYS COUNTY — The Hays County Pet Resource Center is launching an area wide microchip awareness campaign, “The Power of Microchips,” to promote pet reunification and microchips for Hays County pet owners. The goal of the campaign is to showcase the importance of microchipping pets, access to afforda...

KYLE — To help veterans and their families thrive in the communities they have worked to protect, Meritage Homes has been partnering with Operation Homefront for 11 years to build and donate brand new homes for military families. On Monday, June 17, they broke ground on a house in Kyle. “We’re honor...

KYLE — When Billy Bonham, then 18, began his summer job at Kyle Pizza Co., formerly know as Pizza Classics, in 2004, he never expected that he would both one day own it and be celebrating 20 years in the business. The original restaurant began where current day Centerfield Sports Bar and Grill is, e...

BUDA — New residential developments and projects from the 2021 bond are underway on the west side of Buda. Construction work has already begun on The Colony at Cole Springs, a 169.95-acre development of approximately 499 residential lots that is located south of Old Black Colony Road in Buda. Discus...

From Germany on Jun. 19, 1945, Lt. Joe Tom Meador wrote to the folks back home in Whitewright, Texas to ask “if my packages are getting home.” Two months earlier almost to the day, the 87th Armored Field Artillery occupied the medieval town of Quedlinburg 100 miles southwest of Berlin in the last we...

I met Colson at the beginning of 2021. I was browsing at PetSmart and walked past the rodent cages, where I spotted this small black mouse with huge ears: a fancy mouse. I immediately took a photo of him. I thought he was the cutest thing, but I had never had a pet like this growing up, which is wha...

Fourteen cadets graduated from the Hays CISD Career & Technical Education Firefighter Program in partnership with Emergency Services District 5 in Kyle. The students from all three high schools in Hays CISD have completed two years of rigorous firefighter courses, equipping them with the knowledge o...

The CBS television network broadcast “Silent Victory: The Story of Kitty O’Neil” on the evening of Jun. 17, 1979. Kitty Linn O’Neil was born in Corpus Christi, Texas on Mar. 24, 1946. She was still in diapers when simultaneously stricken with measles, mumps and what may have been smallpox. Her mothe...

SAN MARCOS – CHRISTUS Santa Rosa Health System announced it has acquired a new high-tech robotic surgical system for CHRISTUS Santa Rosa Hospital – San Marcos. The Intuitive Da Vinci 5 Surgical System is used for minimally invasive procedures. It has robotic arms that give surgeons complete control,...

COLLEGE STATION — Hays County 4-H members participated at Texas 4-H Roundup in Bryan/College Station, Texas from June 3-6. Texas 4-H Roundup, which is the pinnacle event for all of Texas 4-H, welcomed around 1,300 senior-level, or high-school-aged, youth to compete in approximately 50 diverse compet...