HAYS COUNTY — The League of Women Voters (LWV) of Hays County announced it will be participating in National Voter Registration Day (NVRD), a nationwide, nonpartisan effort to register hundreds of thousands of voters on Tuesday, Sept. 19. The League will also be registering voters throughout the mon...

By Sahar Chmais After a year of lockdown and cancelled events, the city of Buda is bringing life back to its residents through a variety of occasions. Residents will get to reconnect, shop and enjoy the arts outdoors through planned activities in May, June and July. Here is a list of events coming t...

By Christopher Green Starting this September, the Buda Library will host General Education Development (GED) classes in coordination with Community Action Inc., a local nonprofit.  Buda Librarian Melinda Hodges said Community Action officials contacted library staff about possibly administering the ...

After several delays, Buda’s city hall and library will be making the big move to the new Municipal Building starting at the end of July. The move was originally scheduled for the end of May, but delays in ordering and delivery of furniture pushed the move back by a couple of months. Micah Grau, ass...

D id you know that the Buda Public Library is part of a partnership whose whole purpose is to get you access to more information? TexShare is a consortium of Texas libraries that have joined together to share materials and purchase online databases so that you (yes, you personally!) can have access ...

"I  have lived a thousand lives and I’ve loved a thousand loves. I’ve walked on distant worlds and seen the end of time. Because I read.”  – George R. R. Martin   This quote embodies one of the main reasons I absolutely love to read. It’s easy to think that your perspective on the world is same as e...

H istory may be written by the victors, but alternate histories are written by imaginative authors. This genre is defined by altering an aspect of a pivotal time in history and seeing what changes (sometimes realistic, sometimes fantastical) result. Here are some great alternate history series to ge...

Y ou’ve probably heard a lot of news about NASA’s New Horizons’ Pluto flyby. By the time this is printed, we’ve hopefully received amazing new imagery from Pluto! I’ve always been fascinated by NASA and space exploration. Since most of us have no chance of becoming astronauts (seriously, those peopl...

W hy is it important to make reading a habit with kids that haven’t even started school yet? The truth is that children start to develop early literacy skills from birth! There are five simple practices that parents and caregivers can use with young children to help get them ready to read. The first...

By Melinda Hodges T he world lost one of its most beloved writers recently. Sir Terry Pratchett passed away on March 12, 2015, after a long fight with early-onset Alzheimer’s disease. He leaves us with a wealth of great writings, but he is best known for his Discworld series. This huge series (40 no...