Authorities seek info on outlet center robber, sentence mall carjacker
Wed, 17/03/10 – 16:04 | No Comment

Police are trying to identify a man who displayed a gun and knife to rob the Levi store in the Tanger Outlet center in January. Meanwhile, a Buda man has been sentenced to 25 years for a carjacking in May at Prime Outlets across the street.

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County shoots down gun ban
Wed, 26/03/08 – 11:30 | No Comment

By BILL PETERSON
Editor at Large
SAN MARCOS – A 3-2 vote is always a close vote, but the 3-2 vote Tuesday morning at the Hays County Commissioners Court was really close. From listening to commissioners before …

Buda’s crowded election
Wed, 26/03/08 – 11:24 | No Comment

Buda’s city council election will definitely seat three new members with at least one crucial decision to make off the bat.

Return of Market Days
Tue, 25/03/08 – 9:04 | No Comment

Kyle’s Market Days are making a comeback, though in a slightly different place and form.

When is a car not a car?
Tue, 25/03/08 – 9:00 | One Comment

Though Federal Judge Sam Sparks recently ruled for San Marcos against Planet K in their junk vehicle case, he did not rule as to whether the car-turned-planter is a car or a planter. That remains a philosophical question.

Rebels face the mystery
Fri, 21/03/08 – 2:10 | No Comment

One night after losing, 1-0, at New Braunfels, the Hays Rebels baseball team put a 12-0 drubbing on the Del Valle pitcher who shut out New Braunfels last week.

The new PEC openness
Thu, 20/03/08 – 22:38 | No Comment

PEC can open its process to everyone in Texas and we’re still facing higher energy prices. Unless one of these numerous board candidates actually has a plan.

Kyle looks at CBD-1
Thu, 20/03/08 – 2:00 | No Comment

CBD-1 zoning along part of Center Street in Kyle began as a compromise and has matured into a confusion.

Beating the vote
Wed, 19/03/08 – 23:04 | No Comment

The Hays CISD trustees won’t let an extra minute pass before building a fifth middle school. They’ve already approved construction documents, though they won’t know if they have the money until the May 10 bond election.

Whither SXSW?
Tue, 18/03/08 – 4:00 | No Comment

Does a dead night in downtown Austin for the final Saturday of South by Southwest mean the festival is dying? And can that be, at long last, because rock ‘n roll really is dying?

A good fight spoiled
Mon, 17/03/08 – 23:21 | No Comment

A highly contentious expenditure of $1.6 million in parks bond money to build a road lost its fire last week, when Hays County legal counsel discovered the funding is appropriate.