DSISD trustee joins leadership class Dripping Springs ISD trustee Mary Jane Hetrick joined 34 other school board members from across Texas February 16-18 at the third session of the Leadership TASB class of 2017. Mary Jane Hetrick, DSISD trustee Selected by the Texas Association of School Boards (TA...

Participants hit the lanes at Sunset Bowling in San Marcos for the Hunger Strike, which raised funds to help food insecure families. Mallory Raschke, Hays County Food Bank communications coordinator, said they raised over $13,000.

ard to believe, but it’s time for purple martins to start arriving back in our area from Brazil and points south. At eight inches, the purple martin is the largest of our swallows.   It is also the bird more people build houses for than any other. The champion martin landlords I have ever known were...

Area students got the chance to show off their creative skills during Teen Tech Week held at the Buda Public Library. The event allowed students on Monday to work with the library’s pop-up mobile maker space, which is a “do it yourself” space where people gather to “create, innovate and learn,” acco...

Hays CISD Board members approved a third Academic Program Management audit conducted by Gibson Consulting Group. According to documents, the audit would cost $21,500. The consulting group will visit six schools, as well as conduct two focus groups and interview up to eight Hays CISD central office s...

(photo by Jim Cullen) Lehman High School’s Meghan Murphy has been selected as a 2017 recipient of the Award for Aspirations, an honor given by the National Center for Women and Information Technology. The award noted Meghan’s computing-related aspirations and demonstrated interest in technology, her...

Hays High School computer science students competed in the Viperwolf Computer Science Invitational sponsored by Oracle. Zach McManus, second from the right, placed 7th in written out of 93 students.

Emma Cole, Hays High School Choir student, has been accepted into the Boston University Tanglewood Institute in the Young Artists Vocal program this summer. The institute is a six-week summer conservatory program for high school-aged singers. Hays High Choir Director Charles Flores says the program ...

Five of Hays CISD’s finest spellers, all of them campus champions, represented the district at the Zone X Spelling Bee, a qualifying meet for the Houston Public Media Spelling Bee. Local campus champs include third grader Cooper Yanta (above), as well as fifth graders Gillian Martin, Zoe Contreras, ...

Hays High School’s Erin Swearingen had a big weekend at the Texas State University “Poetry Out Loud” competition. Sponsor Gina Risher reports Erin made it to the contest’s “final five.” She recited three poems from memory, one of which was “Boy and Egg” by Naomi Shihab Nye, who just happened to be t...