Austin Regional Clinic (ARC) has expanded services to patients to make scheduling and appointments easier and more efficient during the COVID-19 pandemic. New and expanded services include: EXTENDED HOURS FOR DRIVE-UP TESTING Drive-up testing continues to be offered 8 a.m.- 5 p.m. weekdays at ARC Ky...

Mountain City, what a beautiful place to be confined during Covid 19 (for those of us who are not essential workers)! For those of you who are working, thank you. Nature abounds! While you’re in and around observing, contribute to science and have a record kept for yourself by reporting any “organis...

An ax-swinging fiend that had terrorized the Texas capital for weeks struck again on the night of May 5, 1885 leaving a mother’s dead body for her young children to find. The rampage started with a slaying in Austin’s most affluent neighborhood on the day before New Year’s Eve 1884. The victim was M...

Parents of Pre-K students in the Dripping Springs ISD now have until Friday, May 1, to register their children with the district. Parents must email proof of residency to the registrar at the campus where the child is zoned. Families enrolling in the tuition-based Pre-K program are entered into a lo...

In March, there was one family at H-E-B with two loaded shopping carts, and the family wasn’t hoarding. The King family was just getting enough to feed their 12 members. Nothing is a small undertaking for the King family of Dripping Springs. Managing time, they say, requires the use of a spreadsheet...

In a perfect world, Lehman High head football coach Bruce Salmon knows the past week could have been spent guiding his program toward the end of spring drills. Instead, Salmon and his staff are among the thousands of other coaches across the state who are practicing social distancing and discovering...

A Texas police union normally shy of the public eye took to social media to press the governor for help. The social media press conference on April 23 was set up to press Gov. Greg Abbott to ease rules allowing law enforcement personnel who contract the COVID-19 virus to receive workers compensation...

Well, folks, here we are in our 5th week of home quarantine, or is it 6 weeks? Heck, I don’t know. I can’t even keep track of the days of the week. It used to be easy because I have only seven pairs of drawers, one for each day. Nowadays, I may go two or three days without a bath, so I could be wear...

Goldie, my five-year-old Catahoula mix puppy, and I were walking by a house with a van parked out front. A man delivered something to the people within the house and drove away. When he finished his delivery, I saw the name emblazoned on the side of the van. It read, “Imperfect Van Service.” I waved...

We need to get through this time and tighten our belts, just as we have through two World Wars, terrorist attacks and other epidemics Newspapers in the United States have traveled rough seas to the First Amendment freedoms we enjoy today. From the colonial Stamp Act through wartime censorship to tod...