High school sports are trying to adjust to life with restrictions related to COVID-19. That includes changes to every day procedures as well as changes to the schedule.
The Republican and Democratic parties will each choose a candidate to appear on the November ballot to replace Ray Helm as Precinct 3 Constable following his withdrawal from the ballot.
Sheriff Gary Cutler appeared before the Hays County Commissioner’s Court on Tuesday, July 28, 2020 to request that the new Hays County Sheriff’s Academy facility being built be named the “Allen Bridges Training Academy” to honor the late Sheriff Allen Bridges.
The EMS Duck Race down the Blanco River is one community event that is well attended and provides a lot of fun for the community. It also one way the Wimberley EMS can raise funds to provide for the latest life-saving equipment in their ambulances for the residents of the Wimberley Valley. But the pandemic put a quick halt to plans for 2020.
Donations made to the expansion fund at the Wimberley Village Library will be matched dollar for dollar up to $5,000 in contributions beginning August 5th through the end of the year 2020.
A new report of backlogged data for positive COVID-19 cases in Hays County has skewed the overall numbers this week significantly.
Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller urged Texans to take extreme precaution if the mail brings mysterious seeds from China.
Constable Ray Helm has permanently surrendered his peace officer’s license and submitted his resignation while also admitting to investigators that he falsely reported training to the Texas Commission of Law Enforcement that he knew did not constitute training for TCOLE purposes. A TCOLE investigation says that Helm “fabricated” documents to “memorialize” the training session they say did not occur.
Hays County Parks and Open Space Advisory Commission (POSAC) Chair Scott Way presented 16 prospective projects for a November bond election to the Commissioners Court last week.
The Hays County Commissioners Court approved two lease agreements for a COVID-19 testing center and eventual vaccination site, as well as a related call center.
Texas Comptroller Glenn Hegar delivered bleak but unsurprising news Monday: Because of the economic fallout triggered by the coronavirus pandemic, the amount of general revenue available for the state’s current two-year budget is projected to be roughly $11.5 billion less than originally estimated. That puts the state on track to end the biennium, which runs through August 2021, with a deficit of nearly $4.6 billion, Hegar said.
These are dry times, and creeks and groundwater levels are starting to really show it. It’s been nearly two months since the last major rainfall (Edwards Aquifer Authority weather station on the Blanco River near Burnett Ranch Road reported 2.5″ on May 25th and less than 0.25” on July 25-26). Summers in Central Texas are typically dry and hot; this year is no exception.
The Hays County Commissioners Court put a burn ban into effect for the next 60 days in response to a particularly dry season.
Inspectors with the Railroad Commission of Texas are continuing critical inspections of the Permian Highway Pipeline (PHP), one of the largest pipeline projects under construction in Texas in 2020. Stretching more than 400 miles from the Permian Basin to the Houston area, the pipeline will bring West Texas’ natural gas to the world market.
Landowners in Gillespie County are reporting that Kinder Morgan has had yet another spill of drilling fluid this weekend during construction of its Permian Highway fracked gas pipeline under the Pedernales River.
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