DSISD Summer Camp Expo The Dripping Springs ISD Community Services Department will host a Summer Camp Expo on March 30, from 6:30 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. The event will be held in the cafeteria at Rooster Springs Elementary. Information on camps being offered this summer will be available. Visitors will h...

At its March meeting, Wimberley’s VFW Post 6441 presented awards to the teachers of the year from the Wimberley Independent School District. Mimi Taylor, a music teacher at Jacobs Well School, Tommy Bennett, a Texas History teacher at Danforth Junior High School and Ryan Durkin, a Wimberley High Sch...

(photo by Moses Leos III) Right: Under a blanket of stars, Austin resident Sarah Ashworth (center) peers through a telescope as others walk around during Saturday’s Texas Night Sky Festival held at the Dripping Springs Ranch Park. Many made their way to Dripping Springs for the second annual event, ...

Four concert bands throughout the Hays CISD earned Sweepstakes Trophies at the recent Region 18 South Zone Concert and Sight-Reading Contest March 8-9. The Region 18 South included 33 middle school bands from Austin, Bastrop, Dripping Springs and Del Valle ISDs, as well as 13 bands from the Hays CIS...

ays CISD trustees are one step closer toward implementing an ad valorem tax exemption for certain manufacturing companies in the area. Board trustees next week are expected to vote on potentially adopting the Freeport Exemption, which is a form of tax exemption used by communities for economic devel...

In its final regular season show, the JV winter guard placed in the top half of the contest with a 5th place finish, allowing team members to remain ranked 6th on their road to the state championship later this month. Johnnie Green, Lehman winter guard director, said it will be the second year in a ...

For the third straight week, the Hays High Winter Guard won first place in Scholastic Regional A at the TCGC East View contest. The winter guard will wrap up its season March 25 at Hendrickson High School.

The Lehman High School Choir received top scores at the recent 2017 Madrigal Festival in San Antonio. The group, directed by Andrea Baragas, scored all 1s from their judges – a feat their director termed “incredibly difficult to achieve.” Madrigal is considered one of the state’s most prestigious co...

Lehman High School’s showcase Choir program qualified a number of its members for State Solo and Ensemble competition in May at the University of Texas at Austin. Auditions were conducted at Austin McCallum High School. Six soloists and a six-member ensemble will represent the Lobos at State Solo an...

n schedule, “our” Eastern Bluebird eggs hatched on Sunday, March 12. Bluebirds hatch about as ugly as it gets. Almost naked and blind, in just over two weeks they’ll be fully-feathered, jumping up and down, ready to fly out into the world near the end of March. Just last week I read of a chick hatch...