"In the Garden" by Catarina Covatta ast weekend, 40 out of 44 entries submitted by Dripping Springs High School students at the Visual Arts Scholastic Event (VASE) received all-area medals and three achieved all-region honors, which qualifies them to move on to the state competition in April. The st...

The Dripping Springs High School Hi-Steppers have completed their competitive season with multiple honors. At the Vista Ridge Classic, senior soloist Lauren Mamrosh and the duet of Sage Handley and Natalie Green placed first in their events. Junior Jillian Bohuslav and freshman Rylee Oldham placed t...

Seventh-graders from Dripping Springs Middle School celebrated Texas Independence Day with a field trip to Dripping Springs Ranch Park where they enjoyed many aspects of Texas culture. Activities like calf roping, the Cotton Eyed Joe, and a mechanical bull gave students hands-on experiences. Seventh...

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.