M ountain City will have an election for alderman positions! Mark your calendars to vote on Election Day, Nov. 3. The five who filed are Elva Brown, Thomas Brown, Suzanne Hallam, Ralph McClendon, and Lee Taylor (incumbent). You may vote for three, and the top three win. Should you want to write in a...

A ug. 14, Pat Porterfield spotted four Northern Bobwhite quail at the corner of Maple and Cedar. They were scurrying around in the greenbelt area. Pat tidbitted, “Beautiful birds indeed.” Do you remember the good old days when the “bob white” call was often heard? According to TPWD’s “Quail Initiati...

By Pauline Tom U ntil Saturday night, a rhinocerous beetle claimed “most interesting bug of the week in Mountain City.”  RonTom called out, “This bug has a Mohawk!” when he captured a wheel bug near our bed on Saturday night. What a bizarre bug. What an odd cog-like feature.  Oh my! What a fascinati...

By Pauline Tom T rish Wells on Cedar painted a vivid picture as she phoned over a tidbit. The seasonal high mark for tidbitting definitely goes to her, and it’ll be hard to beat.  Trish wondered if “Montage” had mentioned roadrunner sightings. Well, yes. Some years Mountain City has a roadrunner run...

By Pauline Tom F olks right here in Mountain City are seeing many “red and yellow kill a fellow” snakes. After we posted on Facebook about a coral snake in our yard on the morning of July 2, Terry Erwin responded, “Gentleman walking last evening reported to us that a Coral snake went under our culve...

By Moses Leos III Tempers occasionally flared Monday as Mountain City residents voiced their thoughts on an interlocal agreement that could allow Kyle to annex the Anthem subdivision into it’s extra territorial jurisdiction.  Some residents believe the proposed ILA between Kyle, Mountain City and Ha...

(Disclaimer: This Montage is biased, unabashed personal opinion.)   H eavy hearts fill our city as those so near to us have lost homes and possessions and pets – even human life – in the catastrophic flooding of Memorial Day 2015. By the time this column prints, we will hear of opportunities to help...

By Kim Hilsenbeck Residents and guests packed into the city hall in Mountain City Monday evening to hear more about the proposed interlocal agreement with the city of Kyle and Hays County involving a transfer of extraterritorial jurisdiction (ETJ).  Emotions ran high because the deal, as written by ...

P ainted buntings appeared at our house on April 22nd, in all their splendor and glory, just outside our breakfast window on our stack-of-boulders birdbath. Now, we see the indigo, scarlet, and chartreuse males and olive females every day. They’re in the vicinity by the hundreds now, nesting on the ...

T o find out what’s going on nowadays in Mountain City, you only need access to the Internet.  We decided to stay an extra day at Mom’s in deep east Texas, what with the rains and son-in-law chores.  Yet, it looks like I can piece together a column.  Mayor Tiffany Curnutt, Loving Mountain City’s “le...