eing a living soil gardener has its challenges. Full refrigerators and pantries; wishing you actually owned stock in the Mason Jar company; and neighbors not answering the door because you have infected them with your overflow. Not to mention the social stigma of crop envy that we have to contend wi...

Hays CISD is planning to join a growing list of Texas school districts opposing the state’s new A-F accountability ratings, which were made public last week. In a letter sent to parents, Hays CISD superintendent Mike McKie called the Texas Education Agency’s (TEA) letter grades for Hays CISD “disapp...

After a six-year tenure on the dais, a groundbreaking Hays CISD board trustee is opting to forego a third term as she purses a career in education. In a letter to constituents, Hays CISD at-large board trustee Sandra Bryant, who is the first, and currently only, African-American elected to serve as ...

A pair of Hays Rebel band members claimed All-State Band honors earlier this month. Percussionist Ryan Peed and B-flat clarinetist Chris Robles (center, l-r) were named to the All-State Band as a result of their performances at the Area E band auditions at the University of Texas at Austin Jan. 7. B...

Hays High School’s Speech and Debate team completed a strong outing at the Winston Churchhill Classic at Churchill High in San Antonio. Leading performance in the Texas Forensics Association Tournament and Tournament of Champions Qualifying meet was Chance Walker, who reached the finals, then won fi...

n 1940, J.D. Scott was hired away from a water company in Dripping Springs to run the waterworks for the city of Kyle. “He was not only the water person, he more or less was Kyle’s only employee” at that time, said Wynette “Tutta” Barton, a long-time Kyle resident. (photo by Moses Leos III) Scott wa...

or years now, the first thing my husband and I do when we move to a new location is put up a greenhouse. Actually, for the last two homes one of the main criteria when house-hunting was where a greenhouse could be placed.   For me this structure is not a luxury, but a necessity for many reasons from...

et’s finish out 2016 by spotlighting some special volunteers whose efforts made a memory for about 60 who enjoyed Tour deLights, the party in mid-December for Mountain City’s children and grandchildren. Cody Taylor filled Loving Mountain City’s Santa suit. Brian Porterfield and The Pucketts tended t...

n Jan. 13, 1903, the day he began his third term in the Texas House of Representatives, Pat Neff was elected Speaker making him at age 31 the youngest in the history of the Lone Star legislature. Two years later, the rising star caught everybody by surprise with the announcement that he would not se...

Purgatory Trail Run On Jan. 15, come out for the annual San Marcos’ trail race in the beautiful Purgatory Creek Natural Area. This is a USATF sanctioned event. The 10-mile course leads runners through the Edwards Aquifer recharge zone with some difficult technical sections of trail. The 5K course is...