Gov. Greg Abbott on May 26 issued a proclamation giving the green light to more services and activities in a second phase of the state’s plan to reopen from mandatory pandemic closures.   The Phase II proclamation allowed water parks to open beginning May 29 on condition that the venues limit occupa...

Hays CISD Superintendent Dr. Eric Wright announced Friday that Dr. Michael Watson, current Dahlstrom Middle School principal, will serve as the new principal for Simon Middle School beginning with the 2020-2021 school year. Watson joined the Hays CISD team in 2014, as principal of Live Oak Academy a...

Linda Stewart (left) Orchard Park Lifestyle Enrichment coordinator, and community volunteer Jane Moore showed off certificates given to veterans at Orchard Park Assisted Living and Memory Care in observance of Veterans Appreciation Month. They were distributed at a veterans Appreciation barbecue.

Members of the Kyle City Council and staff “deserve to be praised to high heaven” for the amount of work they are doing — “above and beyond the call to service,” Mayor Travis Mitchell said in responding to questions about a “visioning” workshop council and some city staff attended in Fredericksburg ...

Vice Adm. Mary M. Jackson, who hails from Wimberley and retired from the Navy as Commander, Navy Installations Command (CNIC), was honored during a change of command ceremony onboard the Washington Navy Yard. She is retiring after 32 years of naval service. Under the Chief of Naval Operations, CNIC ...

Astronaut Ed White popped open the hatch of Gemini 4 on June 3, 1965 and stepped out into the boundless and beautiful universe.   If ever there was a son who followed in his father’s footsteps, it was San Antonio native Edward Higgins White II. Ed Sr., a graduate of West Point, made a career of the ...

They came in sedans and SUVs, pickup trucks and economy cars, most with trunks already open. The city of Kyle, in conjunction with Central Texas Food Bank, handed out boxes of food to 1,450 families on May 30 in the vast parking lot of Smile Direct. An army of volunteers stood by to put in those ope...

Hays County is blessed with natural spaces, from cool, clear swimming holes to stunning mountaintop vistas. Not all of them are open to the public, however, and county government is aiming to fix that and is seeking public comment on how to do so.   The county’s Parks and Open Space Advisory Commiss...

Against the backdrop of a fifth COVID-19 fatality, the Hays County Health Department laid out an aggressive bilingual outreach program to the Commissioners Court during its Tuesday meeting. Clinic Manager Margie Rodriguez ran down the latest numbers on testing for the coronavirus at various sites an...

By Margaret Spellings The economic calamity caused by the novel coronavirus is creating a surge in young adults with uncertain futures. Many have lost jobs or job offers, and others may leave higher education and their schooling because they can no longer afford it. Our state’s vast and diverse syst...