Journalism student honored for opinion piece

A Dripping Springs High senior earned a prestigious award for his opinion piece on the effect global warming could have on our planet.

Jaxon Thornton, who is the editor-in-chief of “MyDSHS News,” the school’s student newspaper, won a Gold Circle Certificate of Merit from the Columbia Scholastic Press Association for his opinion piece, “Don’t Let Greed Run our Planet.”

Jaxon Thornton

The piece originally ran in the Feb...