Early voting approaches The clock is ticking for those registered to participate in the May 6 election. Early voting for elections in Hays County begins April 24. See a list of early voting locations at haysnewsdispatch.com. Old Settler’s Music Festival This annual festival at Camp Ben McCulluch in ...

ripping Springs Independent School District (DSISD) announced earlier in the week the 2017 Campus Teachers of the Year. The five Teachers of the Year are Rachel Barton, Jamie Biel, Megan Danz, Joe Davis and Molly McFee.  Campus winners were selected through a nomination and voting process of all sta...

Texas Tech interim dean Dean Paul Goebel presented Steele with a scholarship on Tuesday. (photo by Moses Leos III) Hays High senior football player Peyton Steele got quite the surprise Tuesday when Texas Tech interim dean Dean Paul Goebel personally visited during class to present him with a scholar...

Lobo choir (photo by Jim Cullen) Rebel choir (photo by Jim Cullen) (Top) Capping off a brilliant program showing, the Lehman High School Lobos Varsity Treble Choir rolled to a Sweepstakes win in the Region 18 UIL Concert and Sight-Reading Assessment. Staged at the HCISD Performing Arts Center, the e...

istrict leadership, growth and the upcoming May 2017 bond were topics addressed by four of the six candidates battling for a seat on the Hays CISD board of trustees. District 1 incumbent trustee Teresa Tobias, along with trustee At-Large candidates Debbie Munoz, Doyla Burrell and Vanessa Petrea, fie...

ith land catering to its historic farming and ranching roots, Buda is probably the last place anyone would expect to find dam-building beavers.  Buda officials, however, were shocked to discover the Garlic Creek Retention pond, located in the Garlic Creek subdivision in west Buda, is a preferred pla...

Egg-squisite easter egg hunting skills were put to the test this week as hundreds of area children, and some children-at-heart, participated in the Buda Easter Egg Hunt and the Kyle Easter Egg-Stravaganza last week. Obtaining those coveted eggs wasn’t always over-easy. Children at the Buda hunt were...

h my. Oh no. Unbelievable. Creekside Nursery, a large wholesaler of Texas natives, uses pesticides. This word I have from Shelly Saunders, with Creekside’s Customer Service. You’ve probably seen Creekside Nursery’s green and white tag, if you’ve purchased “Texas plants” locally. In checking on my ne...

y late aunt was known for her love of gardening. I have written about her backyard before in this column because it was overflowing with flowers of every shape and size.   Flower arrangements were her specialty. Every Saturday until the age of 102 she would put vases together for Sunday morning chur...

Texan for three years and a Ranger for less than one, Jeff Milton survived his baptism of gunfire on Apr. 25, 1881 just as he would many other brushes with death in the years to come. When the wife of Florida governor John Milton gave birth soon after secession, the pleased papa named the baby Jeff ...