This appeal is not one taken lightly, and we certainly never thought the, Hays Free Press , News-Dispatch and Barton Publications would be calling on our readers and supporters, but ... We need your help. Like so many businesses, we have been hit terribly by the coronavirus crisis. Local businesses ...

The state’s largest law enforcement union will seek to legally enforce Line of Duty Death benefits for all Texas law enforcement personnel. The Combined Law Enforcement Associations of Texas, or C.L.E.A.T., will sue any political subdivision, law enforcement agency, and individual who rules any COVI...

When Paulina Hernandez was a young child, her father’s pop shop “La Playa” (The Beach) was rich with the smell of freshly peeled limes and the sounds of chatter between her dad and customers. Those same smells and sounds live in Paulina’s own pop shop, La Ola (The Wave) Pop, here in Kyle. Owning a p...

Hays County has been following CDC guidelines on who gets tested for COVID-19 – basically, health care providers, people in high-risk groups with symptoms and first responders. As of Tuesday, May 5, results of 1961 tests had been reported to the County Health Department and of that, 183 were positiv...

Hays County Commissioner on Friday agreed to allocate $500,000 from the general fund to use as grants to micro-businesses who aren’t likely to recover from a six-week closure forced by the COVID-19 pandemic. They could not come to terms, however, on what businesses would be eligible, what the money ...

Through a partnership with the Texas Department of Health and Human Services, along with the Texas Army National Guard, two free COVID-19 testing locations will be available in Hays County on May 10. One location will be in Wimberley, the other in Dripping Springs. Testing at both sites will take pl...

Mary Ester Acosta, a quiet, generous, and loving partner, mother, grandmother, and great-grandmother passed away following a lengthy debilitating illness, a day short of her 73rd birthday. On Thursday, April 29th, 2020, surrounded by loved ones, she was called to be with our Heavenly Father. Ester w...

Roy John Adair passed away in his sleep from natural causes April 29, 2020.   He was born in Grimsby, England in the middle of an air raid to John Oswald Brumby and Joan Dorothy Gillman Brumby Adair on February 19, 1941.   His parents both predeceased him as did his stepfather, Harry Dwight Adair an...

Bobbie (Bob) F. Templeton of Driftwood passed from his earthly life on Thursday, April 30, 2020 following a long battle with Parkinson’s disease.  The family will receive friends on Monday, May 4, 2020 from 5:30 to 8:30 PM at Harrell Funeral Home, 4435 Frontier Trail, Austin, TX.  Visitation on Tues...

County authorities say they have arrested a “serial package theft” accused of taking parcels off porches in neighborhoods around Kyle. John Michael Rodriguez He was seen in video surveillance at approximately 9:20 a.m. on Sunday, April 26 as he exited an older model green Ford Mustang in front of a ...