ACC picks firm for Hays design
The San Francisco-based Gensler firm has been chosen to engineer and design an Austin Community College campus in Kyle, pending the results of the Nov. 2 annexation election.
The college district announced the firm’s selection this week along with other firms expected to design campuses in the San Marcos, Bastrop and Elgin school districts.
ACC has property under contract in four of the five school districts in which voters will decide next month whether to join the college’s taxing district.
The architectural firms were chosen from 56 that responded to a request for qualifications issued this summer for the work.
Depending on election results, the first phase of the Hays CISD and San Marcos CISD campuses could be completed in time for classes in fall 2013, college district officials said.
Naked burglar nabbed in Kyle
A 26-year-old man, who broke into a Kyle convenience store last month while naked, is out on bail.
Kyle police say Stephen Seipp of Austin used a skateboard to break a window in the Sac n Pac in the 22800 block of Interstate 35. Officers who responded to a burglary alarm found Seipp nude with minor cuts from broken glass.
He was taken to Seton Medical Center Hays for treatment and then to the Hays County jail. Seipp is charged with burglary of a business and criminal mischief, both state jail felonies punishable by six months to two years in jail.
Seipp was recently released on a $5,000 bond.
Couple’s fight leads to deadly conduct charge
A man is facing charges of deadly conduct after firing a gunshot into the ground during an argument with a girlfriend.
William Gibbs, 29, was arrested at about 8:55 p.m. Sept. 25 outside a home in the 1100 block of Sweetgum Drive in Kyle.
Deadly conduct is a Class A misdemeanor punishable by less than a year in jail and a fine less than $4,000.
