ll aboard!  At 4 p.m. on Saturday, the Ladybug Express made her inaugural run at Loving Mountain City’s Fire & Ice Festival, bringing a new dimension that literally expanded the event’s boundaries.   Tickets sales at the barrel train station all went to Sudden Unexpected Death of a Child Foundation....

here is an oft repeated feeling that I experience every year here in Texas. By summer I am mentally packing my bags and moving to Colorado.   I swear that I cannot take one more year here in this heat.   But then something happens. Not just any something… but Texas in spring happens. Specifically, o...

Kyle Garden Club The Kyle Garden Club will meet Friday, Nov. 3 at 12:30 p.m. at the Historic City Hall in Kyle. The program will be on Horse Trough Gardening presented by Janet Bradford. The public is invited. Rainwater Revival This year's Rainwater Revival will be bigger, better and more fun! It's ...

(photo by Timothy Stuckey) The strains of Americana, Bluegrass and more hit Mercer Street in Buda for the 4th annual Dripping Springs Songwriter’s Fesrtival, which took place this past weekend. Over 40 performers played across six stages in the downtown Dripping Springs area. A packed house listens ...

t seems a little early to me, but it appears my hummingbirds have departed for points south.   I’ll leave my sugar-water feeders up a few more days, but I’m afraid these little flying jewels are long gone.   I hope you are having better luck and that some of you will even have hummers over the winte...

ripping Springs High student Addie Villas understands the circumstances surrounding dating violence can often go unnoticed. Through the student-led Domestic Violence Advisory Board, Villas and other Dripping Springs ISD students hope to shed more light on a problem they say is all too prevalent in t...

Tiger Theater presents ‘Much Ado’ Dripping Springs High School will present William Shakespeare’s “Much Ado About Nothing” Oct. 27-30 in the DSHS Auditorium. The theater department has built an entirely new playhouse within the frame of the DSHS auditorium stage, bringing the audience closer to the ...

(courtesy photo) Kate Milford, New York Times best-selling author, visited Dripping Springs Middle School Oct. 20. She spoke to students who signed up to hear her about the creative process, character development, and the art of writing. She has penned several books including the popular "Greenglass...

ne will soon be able to add the title of hall-of-famer to the accolades legendary Hays Rebel head coach Bob Shelton has earned. On Oct. 19, Shelton was announced as one of two coaches who formally will be inducted into the Texas High School Football Hall of Fame in May 2018. But for Shelton, the new...

Wallace Middle School is going green in the literal sense after members of the school’s Green Team cut the ribbon to its new greenhouse. The cost for the greenhouse was covered by a Healthier U.S. School Challenge Grant. The group’s history dates back to a 2011 Education Foundation Innovative Teachi...