oses can be a beautiful, easily-grown addition to any yard that has lots of sun and room for them to grow. (To thrive they need a minimum of 6-8 hours sunshine.) But within the rose family there are different groups and classes, and if you understand these, you’ll have a better understanding of whic...

Hooked On Fishing Spring Fishing Tournament On Saturday, March 25, the city of Kyle will hold its annual spring fishing tournament   at Lake Kyle for all adults with a valid Texas Freshwater Fishing License. This unique tournament will test your strategic ability to catch qualifying species of fish ...

The Fancy Feathers Chicken Show was held on Saturday March 11, 2017 at the Dripping Springs Ranch Park event center in Dripping Springs.  The event started at 8am and went until 3pm. Participants and spectators could bid in the silent auction as well as buy and sell hens and roosters. The events dir...

t took a nationally ranked Hays High water ski student for the Hays CISD board to make changes to its excused absence policy. The Hays CISD school board passed a resolution last month stating that students participating in non-UIL events will no longer receive an unexcused absence on their record an...

look of shock showed on the faces of Hays High seniors Damian Fiscal, Kayler Erwin and Breanna Rodriguez as they were each doused with varying amounts of syrupy fake blood Thursday. The concoction, part of the Hollywood-style effect of the Shattered Dreams program, stained clothes and wasn’t exactly...

uda’s own Reverend Jennifer Brooke-Davidson, 56, of St. Elizabeth’s Episcopal Church in Buda, was elected the first female Bishop Suffragan by the Episcopal Diocese of West Texas on Feb. 25. She was chosen out of seven total nominees. Brooke-Davidson’s journey to the rank of bishop-elect started whe...

uthor Wes Ferguson and sponsoring editor Andrew Sansom will celebrate the launch of a new book, “The Blanco River,” on Saturday, April 8, in Kyle. The public is invited to the free event, which begins at 6:30 p.m. at the Katherine Anne Porter Literary Center at 508 Center Street. Author and former e...

n March 21, 1877, Guy M. Bryan wrote the new President of the United States, an old college classmate, to recommend a relative for the Supreme Court. William Pitt Ballinger had no idea why the caretaker governor of Texas summoned him in the middle of May 1865.   But he was relieved to learn Pendleto...

ccording to the Garden Helper’s Dictionary, a micro-climate can be thought of as ‘variations of the climate within a given area, usually influenced by hills, hollows, structures or proximity to bodies of water.’ So what does this mean, and how can it affect gardening and landscape projects around yo...

Hill Country Writing Symposium This gathering of Texas authors and writers held March 16-18 at the Wimberley Village Library offers insight into writing for fiction, nonfiction and poetry as well as sessions on publishing. The seminar is presented by the Texas Authors Institute of History, a one-of-...