By Moses Leos III After a slow start, the six candidates vying for two Kyle City Council seats ramped up efforts to improve visibility in the lead up to Saturday’s election.   Five of the six candidates reported spending a combined $5,100 toward political signs in the final reporting period prior to...

Election day for Kyle City Council District 5 and 6 seats is May 9. The Hays Free Press asked the six Kyle council candidates the following ten questions. Answers printed as submitted. See the other candidates responses here:  District 5 candidates: Damon Fogley, Laurie Luttrell, Jaime Sanchez Distr...

By Moses Leos III Taxes, business development and infrastructure topped the questions to Kyle City Council candidates at last week’s forum at the Kimbro Building hosted by Hays County Precinct 2 Justice of the Peace Beth Smith. Five of the six candidates attended the forum and took submitted questio...

By Andy Sevilla Six Kyle residents have filed for two council seats up for grabs, including an incumbent, former candidates and political newcomers, according to the city’s election filings.  At least one new face will join the seven-member city council, though terms for two public offices expire th...

By Andy Sevilla Shane Arabie will join the Kyle city council after voters decisively elected him to the city’s vacant District 3 seat Saturday night. Arabie was battling Laurie Luttrell for the seat Chad Benninghoff renounced in May.  Arabie kept his lead in the early vote and carried over 73 percen...

By Andy Sevilla A previously proposed truck stop project, twice denied by the Kyle council, was rolled into the political pitches of two candidates fighting for the District 3 seat on the city’s legislative body. Shane Arabie and Laurie Luttrell — the candidates battling it out — fielded questions a...

  Interested in hearing from the Kyle District 3 council runoff candidates, Laurie Luttrell and Shane Arabie? They will be at a candidate forum this evening, sponsored by Kyle Area Senior Zone. Takes place at 7 p.m. at Historic City Hall.  

By Andy Sevilla Narrowly missing an outright victory to the Kyle council by a handful of votes, Shane Arabie will faceoff against Laurie Luttrell in a runoff election for the District 3 seat. “We just have to prepare ourselves for a runoff and continue working the same way we were,” Arabie said. “Ob...

By Andy Sevilla The three candidates battling for a seat on the Kyle council have collectively spent $3,365 in their efforts to win the election. Shane Arabie has collected the most political contributions and outspent his opponents — Laurie Luttrell and Bill Sinor — in his bid to take over the rema...

By Andy Sevilla An at-large Kyle council seat up for grabs has turned up 270 voters during the two-week early voting period in a political race that will elect a new city legislator. Kyle has 15,796 registered voters, according to the latest Hays County Elections Office data retrieved Tuesday aftern...