Submitted Report Celebrate the 100 years since women gained the right to vote at the League of Women Voters of Hays County’s Suffrage Centennial Celebration. The program includes a special screening of Iron Jawed Angels, the story of suffragettes and suffragists. The celebration will occur from 2-5 ...

“How fatal that man will be to France!” a Spanish general predicted in a Nov. 9, 1862 letter to a friend in Paris. It did not take a seer to see that Alphonse Dubois would make a mess of things in Mexico like he had two decades earlier in Texas. He was, after all, the devious diplomat responsible fo...

A Buda resident is among three finalists for the Texas Farm Bureau’s 2019 Excellence in Agriculture competition. Kristin Anderson works in grower marketing programs and digital agricultural solutions for Syngenta. As an AgriEdge specialist covering South and East Texas, she works with more than 130 ...

In keeping with tradition, Mountain City is preparing to light up the town. Loving Mountain City (LMC) invites you to string Christmas lights at your house in November for “Let’s Light Up the City” starting Thanksgiving weekend. With decorations tended to before the holiday season, there's more time...

State Rep. Erin Zwiener presented a State of Texas Proclamation to the Central Texas Dispute Resolution Center. The CTDRC was established in 2009 to provide affordable mediation services and training to the underserved and unserved population in Central Texas. The nonprofit reaches more than half a ...

The King family has a big home, a big family and an even bigger heart. Chris and Tracy King are the proud parents of 10 children, some adopted and others welcoming their new siblings. They range from 16 years old to their latest baby, 2. “It’s a team effort because raising 10 kids, it doesn’t feel s...

Capital Highlights by Ed Sterling After severe weather struck north and east Texas on Oct. 20, Gov. Greg Abbott issued a disaster declaration naming a list of counties in that region.  Among the counties named are: Cass, Collin, Dallas, Ellis, Erath, Hunt, Kaufman, Lamar, Panola, Rains, Rockwall, Ru...

Anakin S. Matthews U.S. Air Force Airman Anakin S. Matthews graduated from basic military training at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland, San Antonio. He and other airmen completed an intensive, eight-week program that included training in military discipline and studies, Air Force core values, physica...

Dex Ellison, Kyle Mayor Pro Tem, recently judged at the 15th Annual Kyle Quilters Quilt Exhibit. Ellison is with Glennis Taylor, this year's winner of the Mayor's Choice award. Titled “A Window View,” the quilt was made as a memorial to her son Phillip Taylor who died in an automobile accident last ...

C ol. William T. Johnson, the powerful promoter who turned rodeos into a big business, was blindsided by a cowboy walkout minutes before a show at the Boston Garden on Oct. 30, 1936. At the end of the nineteenth century, the rodeo had not strayed far from its traditional roots in Texas, the Southwes...