Joe Hyde

OPINION — On Tuesday, San Angelo City Council adopted a right-of-way infrastructure fee. It is a new charge that will show up on city utility bills. Residential customers will pay $8.75 a month. Commercial and industrial accounts will pay more. The ordinance takes effect October 1. The first bills go out January 1, 2027.

SAN ANGELO, TX — Lake View High School senior Brianna Guerra will wear what may be the largest homecoming mum the Chiefs have ever seen Friday night when Lake View hosts the Pecos Eagles at 7 p.m. at San Angelo Stadium.

SAN ANGELO, TX — Cipher Digital is on the Tom Green County Commissioners Court agenda at 8:30 a.m. Tuesday. It's listed as a dialogue, not a vote.

SAN ANGELO, TX — Data center developer Cipher Digital told the Tom Green County Commissioners Court Tuesday it picked the county for one reason: the Red Creek substation. The AEP Texas Red Creek 345-kV Station off City Farm Road is the crown jewel attracting two large-load data center projects to the San Angelo area. Two companies, Emergent and Cipher Digital, on adjacent plots of land, are vying for an interconnect with the station for juice to power a 1.2 GW and a 1 GW facility, respectively.

SAN ANGELO, TX — Every Texas High School Football score on one mobile-friendly page is here.

MIDLAND, TX — Rep. August Pfluger and Democratic challenger Claire Reynolds spent an hour Monday night arguing over who actually works for Texas' 11th Congressional District, in a Basin PBS debate that ran from oil prices and data centers to Iran, ICE and the price of beef.

SAN ANGELO, TX — State Rep. Drew Darby has had enough of Beacon Data Centers. On Thursday he sent the company a second letter and told it to drop the Dove Creek project.

LUBBOCK, TX — The String-A-Longs, the Plainview instrumental band whose 1961 hit “Wheels” sold millions of copies and was covered more than 100 times, were inducted Thursday into the West Texas Walk of Fame.

SAN ANGELO, TX — Work is progressing on San Angelo ISD's voter-approved Bond 2025 projects, including athletic upgrades already underway at Lake View High School and a groundbreaking this week for the district's largest project, a new building for Glenn Middle School.

SAN ANGELO, TX — Republican U.S. Senate nominee Ken Paxton will stop in San Angelo on Wednesday, Oct. 28, as part of his “Come and Take It” bus tour. The event is set for Arc Light Sports Bar & Grill, 441 Rio Concho Drive, with doors opening at 11 a.m.