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Hays early voting shatters records

Democratic county judge candidate Ruben Becer-ra’s personal and business fi nances have come under scrutiny as Election Day draws near.

Austin media have re-ported that Becerra and his businesses face more than $89,000 in tax liens. Coun-ty records show that there are several state and federal tax liens against property listed in Becerra’s name, or his wife’s name, or under Becerra Corp, including a federal lien against Gil’s Broiler for $17,387.39. Most of the liens were fi led between 2007 and 2013, though two state tax liens were fi led against Becerra Corp. and two liens fi led against Manske Roll LLC, another of Becerra’s busi-nesses, earlier this year, county records show.

According to Hays County court records, the Becerras

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Employees Kenny Saunders and Pete Moreno quickly sift through the cleaned whole pecans as they roll down the conveyor belt to remove bad pecans before they are packaged at Swift River Pecans, LLC. Daily Record photos by Denise Cathey

As September turned into October and the husks of the pecan crop have opened to sig-nify their ripeness, pecan grower Troy Swift, who runs Swift River Pecans, LLC with his wife Athanasee, has had a problem. It’s been raining in the area and his orchards are more mud than dirt most weeks.

“We live in Texas and we always want it to rain, except in mid-October, November and early December because you can’t harvest when it is wet,” Swift said.

He’s been able to harvest some of his trees on his 266 acres, but not all due to the threat of mud being sucked into the harvester he uses to pick the pecans up once they’ve been shaken off the trees.

“Once the pecan opens up you either harvest it or it falls on the ground and an animal eats it or in this case we have mud so there is just going to be pecans in the mud. Th ey’re OK as long as we can get to them pretty soon, but if it stays this way for a month or something we’re in trouble,” Swift said.

It’s just one of the yearly hazards of being a pecan grower in Texas.

Growing pecans wasn’t Swift’s original plan — he just fell in love with the San Marcos River. In the ‘70s and ‘80s he used to canoe the river often (including as a racer in the Texas Water Safari) and a property caught his eye.

“Th ere was a place on the river that I said that if I ever had the opportunity and the money I

Pete Moreno blows freshly shaken pecans out of the mud so the harvester will be able to pick them up.

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Texas State University will provide free parking at Matthews Street Parking Garage from 7 a.m. – 7 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 6 for voters using the LBJ Student Center polling location on Election Day.

Signage will be posted directing voters to the ga-rage, and voters must show the parking attendant their

NOV. 6 ELECTIONFree parking at Matthews Street Garage Nov. 6

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Another round of appli-cations for fl ood recovery assistance has closed, and while homeowners who applied with the city can ex-pect funds for unmet needs or repair work that needs to be redone, elevating homes more than is required is not an option.

Th ere is a grant from the Federal Emergency Man-agement Program that is administered by the Texas Water Development Board and can be used to raise eligible structures after a fl ood. Flood Mitigation As-sistance funds can be used to “reduce or eliminate the risk of repetitive fl ood damage to buildings and structures insured under the National Flood Insurance Program,” according to the grant de-scription. Such funds were used to raise some previous-ly homes along the Gua-dalupe River in Guadalupe County.

San Marcos considered the fl ood mitigation assis-tance option, engineering chief Laurie Moyer told the San Marcos City Council at a work session meeting on Oct. 16, but there were problems with eligibility, feasibility and the cost-ben-efi t ratio.

Moyer mentioned that at public meetings about the city’s Community Devel-opment Block Grant-Di-saster Relief (CDBG-DR) infrastructure projects, the

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Becerra’s taxbills drawscrutinyfrom media

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Th e early voting period for the Nov. 6 midterm election has ended, and accord-ing to state and county fi gures, more Hays County voters cast their ballots early this year than in the 2016 presidential election.

Th e Hays County Elections Offi ce report-ed a total of 56,569 early voting ballots cast, including 145 ballots by mail. Th e Texas Secretary of State’s offi ce reports that in the

2016 general election, unoffi cial early voting totals for Hays County were 55,237. Some offi cials, including Hays County Elections Administrator Jennifer Anderson, have been expecting turnout for this midterm elec-tion ro resemble presidential election voter turnout. If as many as 16,000 Hays County voters cast their ballots on Election Day, total turnout will surpass that of the 2016 presidential election, in which just over 72,000 Hays County residents voted.

Th e need for continued early voting on the Texas State campus was evident Th ursday and Friday. On Th ursday, the early voting site at the LBJ Student Center reported 975 votes cast — more than at any other voting site in the county that day — and on Friday another 979 ballots were cast on campus.

All in all, 5,559 ballots were cast in Hays County on Th ursday and 7,494 were cast on Friday, the last day of early voting before Tuesday’s election. Friday’s turnout was the

highest during the early voting period. According to the Texas Tribune, more than

4.3 million Texans have early voted for the Nov. 6 midterm election. In the 30 counties where 78 percent of Texas’ voters live, early voting turnout surpassed the entire turnout of the 2014 midterm. Hays County is one of those 30 counties, as are neighboring Travis and Comal counties.

Election Day voting locations and other

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