There may be no joy at Hays High this spring as overages in the cost of the district’s $3.6 million baseball and softball complex could push construction back to January 2018. Carter Scherff, Hays CISD deputy superintendent, said the district is in a holding pattern with the complex, which was appro...

Wallace Middle School member of the all region orchestra (photo by Jim Cullen) Earlier this month, 12 Chapa Middle School band musicians (above) earned district band honors. That group included (front row, L-R) Matthew Fraiser, Phoebe Murphy, Aiden Schupbach, Layla Tellez, Casey Jennings, Erik Lopez...

The Hays CISD board of trustees voted 6-0 Wednesday to name Dr. Eric Wright, current superintendent of Fredricksburg ISD, as the lone finalist for the district’s superintendent position. The board, which cast the vote during a special called meeting, now must wait 21 days as required by law before t...

he iconic strains of holiday classics such as “O Little Town of Bethlehem” and “Jingle Bell Rock” fill a small room labeled “Orchestra” at Dripping Springs High. Inside are seven students, part of a before-school orchestra club, who make their stringed instruments sing in preparation for upcoming ho...

Dripping Springs High School students performed extremely well on Advanced Placement (AP) exams administered in the spring of 2017, according to a report from the College Board. Of the total exams taken by Dripping Springs High students, two-thirds of the tests received scores of 3, 4, or 5, which c...

New hires at city of DS The city of Dripping Springs announced this week the hiring of Mariana Espinoza as the city’s new Parks and Community Services Director. Espinoza comes to Dripping Springs from Grand Prairie where she served as the Senior Recreation Supervisor for the Grand Prairie Parks, Art...

s of early November, one lonely hummingbird was reported still hanging around a sugar-water feeder at a residence in New Braunfels.   It was identified as a Calliope hummer, the smallest bird in the United States and about the size of a ping pong ball. This is also the smallest long-distance migrant...

Utah Hamilton, a 94-year-old World War II and Korean War veteran, poses for a photo during Wallace Middle School’s Veterans Day ceremony. (photo by jim Cullen) From Buda, Kyle and all across Hays County, residents stopped on Friday and Saturday to honor and salute all veterans who served in the arme...

Veteran Pedro Cortez stands at the microphone with two of his grandchildren during a ceremony held at Kyle Elementary. (photo by Jim Cullen) Students, faculty and many more took time across the Hays CISD Friday to honor, celebrate and thank many of the veterans who served in the military during war ...

A new $8.48 million, 18,000 square-foot music building will be coming to Hays High by spring 2019.  Such is the timeframe envisioned by Hays CISD board of trustees after they approved the final design documents for the new building Oct. 16. Construction on the new music building is projected to star...