Students in Kasey Criminger’s Camino Real Elementary School Kindergarten class was honored as the Roadrunners’ winning class in annual Pennies for Pasta fundraising competition. Pennies for Pasta is a program of the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society. Criminger’s class set the all-time individual class r...

Lehman High School Principal Denisha Presley and LHS Secretary Gina Carline display a $500 Hays Education Foundation grant Lehman received this week. The campus received the grant for providing the top grossing silent auction lot at this year’s Denim & Diamonds gala. Foundation Executive Director An...

The Hays High School Speech & Debate Team conquered the weekend by taking top honors at the Johnson TFA tournament and Clemens UIL tournament. Students who placed included: TFA Domestic Extemporaneous Speaking: Emma Morgan – 2nd, Luke Jackson – 5th, Peyton Gouzien – 7th TFA Foreign Extemporaneous Sp...

Hunger STRIKE Hunger STRIKE is an annual bowling tournament benefiting Hays County Food Bank. It is a fun-filled evening meant to increase awareness about food insecurity among businesses while raising money to support the 1 in 7 in Hays County who are food insecure. The event will take place at Sun...

n the last few months of 2016, Americans saw something happen that hasn’t ever happened. In October, seven species of Hawaiian Bees were added to the endangered species list for the first time ever. Joining them are the rusty patched bumblebee, which is the first bee species in the continental U.S. ...

Inset, above, San Antonio resident Michelle Anguiano (2663) flashes dual “I love you” in American Sign Language as she approaches the finish line of the Run for the Love of It event. Over 170 runners participated in  Saturday’s Run for the Love of It 5K in Buda , which was put on by area nonprofit F...

masked mob dragged five suspected cattle thieves kicking and screaming from the Mason County jail on Feb. 18, 1875, lynched three of the terrified outlaws and touched off a nasty feud forever known as the Hoodoo War. In the chaotic aftermath of the Civil War, Texans often took the law into their own...

s Texans we have a tendency to think of February as the official start of spring. Even though we still get some cold snaps, the spring weather tends to outweigh the frosts. So this is the month when we start our spring gardens. A hardy few are already putting in tomatoes, but for most of us this is ...

on’t believe everything on the Internet. And, to my great regret, don’t believe every word you read here. As much as I research, I sometimes weave in a statement not knowing it needs research. Last week, I misidentified an owl. Our “Owl’ee” in our Owl Shack was an Eastern Screech Owl, red morph. Acc...

Buda city leaders expressed concern regarding the city’s continued support of Budafest at Tuesday night’s Buda City Council meeting after members of the event’s committee failed to show for a post-event presentation. Buda Tourism Director Lysa Gonzales said the presentation was lacking information d...