Changes continue to take place within Hays CISD’s top staff as the district promoted from within to fill a necessary position. On July 25, the Hays CISD board of trustees named Alejandro Góngora as the Assistant Superintendent of Elementary Schools. The move comes as Hays CISD fills open positions w...

(photo by David Bowe) More than a dozen Hays CISD middle school students reached the mid-way point in this week’s Camp Invention, a program that challenges students’ creativity, innovation and problem solving skills. The program, hosted by Barton Middle School, has students go through two modules pe...

The Lehman Lobo Marching Band has begun its annual trek from a mass of enthusiastic, but largely untrained members to the fine-tuned unit that will perform competitively in just a few short months. Band members spent time with new staff member Matt Garrison who put them through their early training ...

Noah Hendricks (center) joins other padawans as they learn basic lightsaber and force skills during Star Wars day at the Kyle Public Library. (photo by Moses Leos III) The Kyle Public LIbrary traveled to galaxy far, far away Saturday as they celebrated the end of the 2017 Summer Reading Program by c...

eon clad revelers joined together under the glow of dark lights in donating to a worthy cause at the inaugural Neon Club Extravaganza in Buda Saturday. The benefit, which was held as a fundraiser for the Hays County Food Bank, was a collaborative effort by Danny Payne, owner of Nate’s Bar, and Jayna...

For Gardeners in the Heat of Summer 1. Mulch and water: Your vegetable garden, landscape, flowerbeds and trees need some help to make it through this torrid month. Mulch generously, and water deeply. 2. Lawn care: Your grass also needs deep, infrequent watering (5 day schedule) and keep the cutting ...

eresa Williams emailed, “I have lived in Mountain City for 17 years, and I have never even SEEN a bat, much less had them come visit me on my back porch. This morning, however, I had a group swarming back and forth on my back porch until they landed in the corners. I think there are three: I’m not s...

apt. Kermit K. Beahan of Houston tossed and turned the night of Aug. 8, 1945 knowing that the next day, which also happened to be his twenty-seventh birthday, he might be called upon to drop the second atom bomb on Japan. The bloody 11-week battle for Okinawa, that ended in June 1945 with 49,000 All...

Buda Market in the Park On Aug. 5, come out to downtown Buda for Market in the Park from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. What better way to spend a Saturday than to explore the outdoor Market in the Park along Buda’s historical downtown greenbelt? Market vendors   include local chamber members, farmers, artisans, ...

(photo by Esperanzo Orosco) (photo by Esperanzo Orosco) Representatives of the Hays and San Marcos Educators of the Texas State Teachers Association (TSTA) joined more than 2,500 protesters on the front steps of the State Capitol July 17 for the Texans for Public Education Rally. Supporters who part...