By Megan Wehring Johnson High School in Buda will have the first advanced placement literature class at the junior level next year while other high schools keep it strictly for seniors. While elementary and middle schools focus primarily on literature, AP language and composition is currently requir...

Staff Report When women were first allowed to serve on U.S. attack submarines in 2013, Buda resident Gracie Hough was still in high school. But Hough, who graduated from Hays High School three years later, will be an active submariner soon enough. Hough went through the motions of graduating from th...

T he producer of “Blossoms In The Dust” flew to Fort Worth on June 19, 1941 to keep MGM’s promise to a woman with a heart as big as Texas. Ralph Wheelwright, a screenwriter and publicist for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, and his wife traveled the country looking for just the right adoption agency and just th...

The number of COVID-19 cases is exploding in Hays County along with the number of people willing to wait for hours in order to be tested for the virus. And only weeks after being allowed by Gov. Greg Abbott to open in increments, scores of businesses are closing down in the wake of employees testing...

by Chase Rogers A recent Facebook post by the mayor of Woodcreek saying the Black Lives Matter movement is a “threat to our lives” sparked protests and condemnation from other elected officials in Hays County. Her post was referring to demonstrations following the death of George Floyd, a black man ...

Unusual times call for unusual measures, and the COVID-19 pandemic certainly qualifies as unusual. That’s not stopping Buda-area residents, who are putting together a Juneteenth/Black Lives Matter Car Parade for Friday, June 19. The parade will start at approximately 6 p.m. Rich in black history bec...

After almost a decade of serving Buda, Mayor George Haehn has announced that he will not seek re-election in November.  “After serving eight years, and trying my best to help the people of Buda,  it is time that I end that service due to family and other commitments. Therefore, I will not be seeking...

Dozens of firefighters from Buda, Kyle, Manchaca and San Marcos responded just past dawn on May 15 to a house fire in the 400 block of Overlook Mountain West in Eliot Ranch west of Buda. Arriving fire crews found the home fully engulfed with flames and smoke visible from all sides and the roof, acco...

M aybe I should have said something every time I saw the stars and bars flapping behind the two-ton pickup trucks my friends drove during my time at Hays High. Perhaps that might have been the right time to speak up and express my concern with an image whose history was interwoven by hate, malice an...

Sometimes it’s good to be the last on the list, but Texas seems to be determined to move up when it comes to coronavirus cases. And Hays County is helping to add to the figures, as its number of cases of COVID-19 continue to increase. In Hays County, the first coronavirus case was reported March 13....