hanks to Beth and Everett Smith for hosting last Tuesday’s National Night Out, providing frozen treats, water, and jump houses for “who knows how many” kids. Monday evening, as the city alderpersons discussed reimbursing a portion of the cost of the inflated jump houses, someone estimated twenty kid...

By Holly Cunningham-Kizer he most common questions asked about victims of domestic violence are, “Why did she go back?” or “Why does she stay?” The answer more often than not is that she had nowhere else to go. Most of us go home at night and sleep peacefully in our own beds. We’ve never had to make...

rriving in Mexico City on Oct. 15, 1834, attorneys Peter W. Grayson and Spencer H. Jack went right to work to finally end Stephen F. Austin’s nine-month nightmare. The cause of the confinement was a letter Austin wrote in the heat of the moment the previous October.   Exasperated by the refusal of t...

Kyle Founders’ Parade On Saturday, Oct. 14 beginning at 10 a.m, the Kyle Founders’ Parade will once again pass through downtown. The parade participants will gather at Gregg-Clarke Park and head east on Center Street and end at the Mary Kyle Hartson City Square Park’s Gazebo. When the last parade en...

Brent Thurman Memorial Bull Riding The 19th annual bull riding event celebrating the late Brent Thurman will be held Oct. 6-7 at Dripping Springs Ranch Park , with a pre-party and auction Friday, Oct. 6 and rodeo event on Saturday night beginning at 5:30 p.m. See a full schedule online at brentthurm...

Sycamore Springs Elementary School teacher Abbey Smart received a $971.50 grant from the A+ Education Foundation Grant Program to purchase five Chromebooks for technology integration for her third-grade students. The A+ Education Foundation Grant Program was established to provide grants to full-tim...

The Dripping Springs ISD Board of Trustees will be honored this Friday, Oct. 6, as a Regional Honor Board by TASA (Texas Association of School Administrators). The DSISD Board, representing Region 13, is one of 16 regional Honor Boards. From that group, five were chosen as Honor Board finalists at t...

on’t look now, but bird migration is well underway.   We are located on the central flyway and birds are passing overhead in increasing numbers, headed south to warmer weather.   Hawks, falcons, kites, shorebirds, hummingbirds, orioles and warblers – all take note when temperatures fall and head   s...

bstinence based education remains the leading focus on sex education in Texas classrooms. However, programs that include information about condoms and other forms of contraception are increasing slightly in popularity across the state. A quarter of Texas public school districts offered no sex educat...

The shuffle of administrators and principals within Hays CISD continued last week as board trustees approved the hiring of new leaders for Tom Green and Tobias Elementary schools. Joy Philpott, the district’s Director of Assessment and Accountability, was named as the next principal at Tom Green Ele...