Texas Night Sky Festival Celebrate the Hill Country’s night skies at this annual festival March 18 at Dripping Springs Ranch Park. Bring your whole family and your friends to a free celebration of the Texas Night Sky. Two-thirds of the U.S. population can’t see the Milky Way at night, and the fault ...

Prior to Thursday’s Day Without Immigrants protest, Simon Middle School principal Jose Puga tried his best to maintain a “business as usual” mentality with his staff. He understood recent Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) operations in Travis County caused anxiety among parents who may not b...

A longtime Hays CISD board trustee will go unopposed this May, while another battles a pair of challengers for the right to stay on the dais. Willie Tenorio, Jr., who has been a board trustee since 2009, did not draw an opponent when filing for the upcoming May 6 election ended Friday. The result ma...

hen Hays County Pct. 2 Constable Michael Torres took office over a month ago, he implemented a uniform for deputies for the first time in 40 years. “I wanted to be visible in the community,” Torres said. “Just for professionalism, so that people are aware we’re Texas peace officers.” But Torres quic...

ending a broken heart on Valentine’s Day can often mean salvaging a bad date or a messy breakup. But for Kyle resident Tom Shelton, such a phrase takes a literal meaning after surgeons repaired his heart after he suffered his fourth heart attack in 14 years on Valentine’s Day 2016. Shelton, 55, eyes...

cting like the Paul Revere of the Texas Panhandle, Pat Garrett rode from camp to camp on Feb. 22, 1877 warning fellow buffalo hunters, “The Comanches are coming!   The Comanches are coming!” That, of course, was not altogether true.   The Indians had been in the vicinity for weeks but posed no real ...

ailure is part of the life of being a gardener. But each time we uproot a fern that’s been fried in the sun, or an olive tree that’s looking sad in partial shade… we learn something. Below is a list of gardening mistakes based on many years of my experiences, and my observations of others around me....

id you participate in the Great Backyard Bird Count over the holiday weekend?  If not, at any time you can start counting birds and submitting your observations to http://ebird.org A red-tailed hawk landed in our backyard while we were watching on two of the days.  You might hear him screaming out a...

Hays County Hunger Strike 2017 Hunger STRIKE is an annual bowling tournament benefiting Hays County Food Bank. It is a fun-filled evening meant to increase awareness about local food insecurity while raising money to support the 1 in 7 in Hays County who are food insecure. The event will take place ...

embers of Wimberley’s VFW Post 6441 have begun a monthly program of visits to veterans who are residents of Deer Creek Retirement Home in Wimberley.  Post members visit Deer Creek’s resident veterans on the second Monday of each month to keep them informed of goings on in the veterans arena, assist ...