Is PEC heading down the wrong road again?

Columns

June 14, 2017

by Kathy Scanlon and Patrick Cox, Ph.D.

Recent decisions by the PEC Board of Directors leading to the departure of CEO John Hewa have set off alarms and serious concerns about the future of our co-op.

We were the first two PEC board members who were fairly elected in a democratic election of all PEC members in 2008. We inherited a discredited organization that was ethically bankrupt, fiscally irresponsible, and one that totally ignored its members. PEC members were unhappy, creditors were concerne...

Community, Dripping Springs, News

Dripping Springs employees bake their best for PEC

DRIPPING SPRINGS — Pedernales Electric Cooperative invited its employees and families to the Dripping Springs office on Sept. 12 for a baking competit...

September 20, 2023

Kyle, News

Kyle bakes its best for PEC

KYLE — Pedernales Electric Cooperative employees and their families gathered at the Kyle office on Sept. 11 to put their best baked goods forward in c...

September 20, 2023

Community, Education, News

Pedernales Electric Cooperative donates more than 2,500 school supplies to students

JOHNSON CITY — Pedernales Electric Cooperative (PEC) donated more than 2,500 school supplies to benefit schools across the co-op’s service territory. ...

September 6, 2023

Community, Hays County, Kyle, News, San Marcos

Residents invited to Hays County Emergency Preparedness Fair

HAYS COUNTY — With the floods, winter freezes and disastrous wildfires that Hays County has experienced over the last several years, residents are enc...

August 30, 2023

Community, News

PEC Community Grant applications now open

JOHNSON CITY — Pedernales Electric Cooperative (PEC) is now accepting applications for community grants and encourages nonprofits within or surroundin...

August 16, 2023

Hays County, News, Wimberley

PEC awards $33K in grants to area nonprofits

HAYS COUNTY — Pedernales Electric Cooperative (PEC) is brightening the Texas Hill Country with grants to support local nonprofits in the co-op’s servi...

July 19, 2023

Buda, Education...

Hays CISD adopts new attendance policy

‘We don't see the kids as a number, but the way the state funds education, they see them as a number’

September 20, 2023

BUDA — Parents across Hays CISD are divided over the district’s new attendance policy, which states that a student could be unenrolled if they are abs...

Breaking News, Hays County...

Hays CISD substitute teacher gets 10 years probation for assault of student

By Staff Report HAYS COUNTY

September 27, 2023

SAN MARCOS — A former Hays CISD substitute teacher was sentenced Sept. 18 before Judge Sherri K. Tibbe to 10 years in state prison, suspended for 10 y...

Kyle, News

TXB celebrates grand opening in Kyle

September 27, 2023

With the Kyle Chamber of Commerce, TXB (or Texas Born) celebrated its grand opening at 145 Lehman Road in Kyle on Wednesday, Sept. 20. The family of r...

Breaking News, Kyle...

Kyle Police Department arrests five people in human smuggling operation

By Staff Report KYLE

September 20, 2023

KYLE — Five people were arrested in a human smuggling case in Kyle. On Sunday, Sept. 17, the Kyle Police Department dispatch received a call at appro...

Kyle, News

HCSO arrests capital murder suspect for family violence, violating bond

September 20, 2023

KYLE — An 18-year-old Austin man was arrested on Sept. 8 for several warrants issued by the court, including capital murder, according to Hays County ...

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