The Hays High School’s Legacy Players excelled at their Bi-district UIL One Act Play competition, held at Vista Ridge High School. The group advanced to the Area round of competition, set for Saturday, April 1, at Smithson Valley High School. Shows begin at noon and run back to back. “Silent Sky” wi...

Lehman High School’s Winter Guard placed second at the WGI San Antonio Regional in the prelims round, winning the General Effect Caption (less than a point behind World championship Finalist San Antonio Reagan HS), coming out fifth of 29 overall in Scholastic A Prelims, then placing 6th of the 15 Fi...

Hays High School’s Winter Guard took home the Gold Medal in the Region A Class at the Texas Color Guard Circuit West State Championships. The Lehman High School JV Winter Guard earned bronze in the Novice class. As a result of their respective showings, both groups earn “promotion” for next year’s c...

rying to lend a helping hand to Hays CISD students and staff coping with loss is an all too familiar occurrence for Charlotte Winkelman, the district’s director of guidance and counseling. With the assistance of a dedicated plan and numerous staff members, Winklemann and her team support many who gr...

Stephen Dunn book reading Poet Stephen Dunn will hold a reading and signing at The Wittliff Collections on Thursday, March 30 at   3:30 p.m. and the Katherine Anne Porter Literary Center on Friday, March 31 at 7:30 p.m. Dunn is the author of sixteen books, including “Different Hours,” which won the ...

ivic leaders in Dallas and Houston waited nervously on April 2, 1914 for the decision on which of Texas’ two largest cities had been awarded the new federal bank. The rash of bank failures caused by the Panic of 1907 underscored the urgent need for effective monitoring and management of the national...

uda city leaders earlier this month tabbed the creation of a task force to discover ways to better represent and serve the city’s aging population. The decision came after Buda Human Resources Manager Kristin Williams presented results of the city’s aging survey to the Buda City Council March 21. Th...

Kathy Modern (left) shakes the hand of Jason Miller after claiming the women’s over 45 division first place trophy at the 2017 Hooked on Fishing tournament at Lake Kyle last weekend. (photo courtesy of Jason Miller) Area anglers from Kyle and beyond woke up before the dawn’s early light Saturday to ...

ast week’s Montage pulled in an owl tidbit for this week. Priscilla Bettes, who lives on Indian Creek Lane, behind Poplar, wrote, “Last year one took up residence in our barn up in the rafters.  It would come out at night and peek down at me as I was feeding our horses.  We saw it for several nights...

few years ago, while doing some research for our new medicinal / healing garden, my wife shared an article with me on the Moringa tree, and the more I read, the more fascinated I became. First of all, the Moringa, also known as the ‘Drumstick Tree,’ is nearly entirely edible. It can grow with little...