By Samantha Smith Questions were raised at the last Buda city council meeting as city officials received a presentation on FEMA’s re-mapping of the 100-year flood plain.  But preliminary maps, which have not been approved by council, show potential trouble for many existing and future Buda structure...

By Moses Leos III As an influx of growth continues to trickle south from Austin, Buda continues to manage its rapidly shifting population numbers. According to a city press release, Buda saw a 77.9 percent increase in population from 2010 to 2015. The information, which was gathered from a March 201...

By Moses Leos III The practice of injecting potable water into an existing aquifer for future use may be in Buda’s future after city leaders expressed their desire to conduct a feasibility study on Aquifer Storage and Recovery (ASR). According to Buda Water Specialist Brian Lillibridge, ASR could be...

By Moses Leos III Questions surrounding the scope of an emergency preparedness center (EPC) within Buda’s new municipal facility led city leaders to delay approving a $22 million total cost estimate for the project. Without the full cost for the EPC, Mayor Todd Ruge said council approving an estimat...

By Moses Leos III An estimated 195,000 gallons of domestic wastewater spilled into Garlic Creek Tuesday following a suspected pump malfunction at a lift station that is currently under construction. The spill happened at approximately 1 a.m. Tuesday at the FM 967 Lift Station. Domestic wastewater co...

By Moses Leos III Having lived a life that spanned 103 years, Cecil M. Clark experienced events ranging from the Great Depression, to the moon landing and cell phone technology. But for Clark’s son and daughter, Cecil A. Clark and Bobbie Clark Kasper, memories of their iconic father, who passed away...

By Moses Leos III Keys on making a municipality attractive to businesses and visitors was one point Texas Secretary of State Carlos H. Cascos spoke on during the Buda Area Chamber of Commerce luncheon April 14.  For Cascos, who toured 37 Texas cities in 2015, the importance of every city in Texas, l...

  By Moses Leos III An estimated 195,000 gallons of domestic wastewater spilled into Garlic Creek Tuesday following a suspected pump malfunction at a lift station that is currently under construction. The spill happened at approximately 1 a.m. Tuesday at the FM 967 Lift Station. According to a city ...

  By Moses Leos III On Friday, longtime Buda resident Cecil Clark passed away at the age of 103-and-a-half years old.  Clark, who lived in the Central Texas area his whole life, grew up on a farm in Goforth.   According to a 2012 All Around Hays article, Clark worked as a firefighter at Camp Swift i...

By Samantha Smith Two women were arrested in separate DWI incidents last weekend where children were passengers in the vehicle.  On April 9, Buda Police arrested Samantha Lyn Ingram, 26, following a hit-and-run incident with an unoccupied black Mazda truck in the 300 block of Tobin Drive.  Ingram wa...