NOVEMBER 3, 2021 FAREWELL
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Journalists, communitys bid farewell to editor Anita Miller.
From wrestling to Marines, local makes the transition.
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Vol. 127 • No. 32
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8.3% of registered voters turn out for general election
Buda props pass, Kyle and Buda council elections lead to runoffs Unofficial general election results as of 10:00 p.m. Nov. 2.
CITY OF BUDA, PROPOSITION A
The issuance of $73,570,000 bonds by the city of Buda, Texas, for transportation projects for streets, roads, bridges, and intersections, including for Old Black Colony Road, West Goforth Road, Overpass Road/FM 2001 intersection, RM 967, Austin Street, FM 2770, Main Street, China Street, Talley Loop, IH 35 to Old San Antonio road connector, Middle Creek Drive, SH 45/Bailey East-West Corridor, and other street and road improvements and also including related utility relocation, sidewalks, pedestrian and bicycle improvements, traffic safety and operational improvements, the purchase of any necessary rights-of-way, design costs, required equipment, drainage and other related costs. Taxes sufficient to Pay the principal of and interest on the bonds will be imposed.
75.17% voted in favor of Prop A 569 For • 188 Against
LaVonia HorneWilliams 48.73% 344 Votes
CITY OF BUDA, PROPOSITION B
The issuance of $16,090,000 bonds by the city of Buda, Texas, for parks and recreation projects, including for Garlic Creek Trail, Eastside Park, Onion Creek Trail, Green Meadows Park/Stoneridge, City Park parking improvements, and Garison Park, and also including land acquisition, design costs, required equipment and related drainage and other related costs. Taxes sufficient to pay the principal of and interest on the bonds will be imposed.
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63.14% voted in favor of Prop B 478 For • 279 Against
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CITY OF BUDA, POSITION 3 AT-LARGE Emily Jones 32.29%, 228 Votes Virginia Jurika 18.98%, 134 Votes
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Daniela C. Parsley 27.96%, 364 Votes Leah Kaufman 22.27%, 290 Votes Donny J. Willis 14.21%, 185 Votes
Rare human case of rabies under investigation BY GARY BORDERS
BY SAHAR CHMAIS
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CITY OF KYLE, COUNCILMEMBER DIST. 5
STATE NEWS
Anti-semitic letters showing up in Hays County Anti-semitic letters, placed in plastic bags with pebbles, were placed in front of homes across several cities in Hays County. One of the letter’s headlines reads, “Every single aspect of the COVID agenda is Jewish,” and the letter claims the names of Jewish leaders in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, vaccine scientists and more. Another letter questions why Jewish people have majority control over the media. On Sunday night, Hays County Judge Ruben Becerra brought this issue to light through a social media post and said reports of the letters started coming to him on Saturday. There have been at least six letters sent out based on reports made to him,
Rick Koch 35.56% 463 Votes
Buda connector road breaks ground at Robert S. Lights and FM 2770 Soon, residents will be able to make one straight shot from FM 1626 onto RM 967 and I-35 through a connector road being built from Robert S. Light Boulevard in Buda.
BY SAHAR CHMAIS Time is a currency and what better way to save time than through faster routes within a fast-growing city in the fastest-growing county in the country. Soon, residents will be able to make one straight shot from FM 1626 onto RM 967 and I-35 through a connector road being built from Robert S. Light Boulevard in Buda. The two-mile $17.7 million project broke ground on Wednesday, Oct. 27 and completion is slated for early 2024.
The RM 967/Robert S.Light Boulevard extension project is through a partnership between Hays County and TxDOT. This road project will construct a travel lane in each direction from RM 967 to FM 1626, create an overpass at the Union Pacific Railroad,
build an overpass at the Mustang Branch of Onion Creek and Centex Materials haul road and add turn lanes on the RM 967 and FM 2770, to-and-from the Robert S. Light Boulevard extension. “You can tell by the number of vehicles and trucks on this road
that this is going to be a highly used roadway,” Tucker Ferguson, TxDOT Austin district engineer, said as he addressed the crowd at the groundbreaking. “This will provide a safe and efficient route to move many of these vehicles from the downtown area of Buda and make it more safe for those residents and travelers as well as the ones on this road.” Not only does this road reduce travel time, but it gets industry vehicles and suppliers
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Austin-based restaurants coming to Kyle Kerbey Lane Cafe, the 24-hour restaurant, has set its eyes on the JLL Development, the southwest corner Marketplace Ave.and Kyle Parkway, and is choosing which pad site to move into.
BY SAHAR CHMAIS Kerbey Lane Cafe, a beloved Austin diner, will join the ranks of Z Tejas, P. Terry’s and Torchy’s Tacos, as new announcements come about the expanding Kyle restaurant scene. Kerbey Lane Cafe, the 24-hour restaurant, has set its eyes on the JLL Development,
the southwest corner Marketplace Ave. and Kyle Parkway, and is choosing which pad
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site to move into. As Kyle expands, the city wants more food options for
residents, but the city cannot invite these restaurants in — it has to attract them, said Mayor Pro-Tem Rick Koch. Businesses like Kerbey Lane want to be in places that have a unique feel, Koch added. The Vybe trail system, which was
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A Medina County child is being treated for rabies in a Texas hospital, the Department of State Health Services reported last week. It is the first case of rabies in a human reported in the state since 2009. The child was bitten by a bat, according to DSHS. Public health officials have identified all the places where someone could have come into contact with either the bat or the child. Experts are assessing the risk to those people and whether they should receive post-exposure vaccinations to prevent them from contracting rabies. The department noted that rabies is almost always fatal once contracted, but is preventable if the vaccine and immune globulin are administered before symptoms begin. In Texas, according to DSHS, skunks and bats account for most animal rabies cases. Nearly 600 animals in Texas tested positive for rabies last year, about half of them bats.
10-DIGIT DIALING MANDATORY IN SEVERAL NEW AREAS The days of being able to just dial seven digits in seven Texas area codes are behind us. In July 2020 the Federal Communications Commission approved 988 as the abbreviated dialing code for the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline. Several Texas area codes (254, 361, 409, 806, 830, 915 and 940) have numbers with a 988 prefix, and had to transition to
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