t’s summertime and birds need all the help they can get. This is a great time to offer some sort of water feature to our feathered friends, whether it be a simple basin of cool water or a fancy circulating fountain with pool. A plain, sturdy birdbath is hard to beat, just make sure it is heavy enoug...

Dripping Springs ISD leaders last month unanimously approved to extend the contract of their leader. The Dripping Springs ISD board of trustees extended Dr. Bruce Gearing’s contract by one year, which will have him as the schools’ leader until 2021-2022. Trustees also approved a two percent salary i...

Western Hays County residents showed their patriotic flair last week during various Independence Day events. In Wimberley, hundreds braved the heat and lined Ranch Road 12, as well as fill up the downtown square, for the annual Fourth of July parade in the downtown area. Meanwhile, those in Dripping...

ollecting food for those in need is a role Wallace Middle School students and administrators take pride in. In fact, it wasn’t long ago the campus was celebrated for donating more than 2,000-pounds of canned goods during the 2016-2017 school year to the Hays County Food Bank. But Sarah Hodges, Walla...

The path toward a charter school opening in Kyle moved ahead Tuesday when Planning and Zoning commissioners recommended approval of two conditional use permits (CUP) for the first phase of the campus. One CUP, recommended by a 5-0 vote, allows IDEA Public Schools to open on property currently zoned ...

or the better part of three months, Wimberley resident Thomas Pletcher could feel something wasn’t quite right with his body. Every time he did something in the yard, he would get a peculiar feeling that forced him to rest. Eventually it go so bad, he asked his wife to take him to Seton Medical Cent...

“Keeping it Kyle” took on new meaning Saturday at city square park in Kyle as the city held its July Market Days event in downtown. Several Kyle-area vendors lined the square as revelers listened to the beats of Fallon Franklin, as well as Matthew Robinson and the Jelly Kings.

arly July gets me in the mood to plant fall tomatoes. Texas A&M’s Vegetable Garden Planting Guide advises gardeners to get their fall tomato transplants in the ground between July 7 and August 7. (Larger transplants in 1 gal. pots or larger can be planted as late as Sept.1.) I prefer to plant determ...

t’s once again time for The Friends of the Buda Library Summer Essay Writing Contest. We want to give our young library patrons an opportunity to flex their writing muscles and show off their imagination and literary skills. The contest is open to all Buda Library card holders between the ages of 8 ...

illian Knox, once the prime suspect in the staged suicide of her timber tycoon husband, was back in the news on July 15, 1939 following her arrest in Los Angeles on warrants out of Dallas and Shreveport. The Big D district attorney announced that the notorious “Lady Bountiful,” the nickname bestowed...