More than 600 Chromebooks were checked out to DSISD families to assist students with remote/virtual learning based on responses to a survey regarding tech needs. Staff volunteers helped out, including Superintendent Todd Washburn directing traffic, Athletic Director/Head Football Coach Galen Zimmerm...

In accordance with an order issued by Texas Gov. Greb Abbott, the Hays CISD May 2 bond election has been moved to Nov. 3. The board of trustees voted unanimously during a online zoom special meeting on Monday to change the election date. The remainder of the meeting was devoted to an update by Super...

Kristie Schuh, a 2005 graduate of Dripping Springs High School, was selected to star in a one-person play, “Every Brilliant Thing,” that was presented at the 37th International Meeting of University Theatre at the Royal University of Theatre in Liege, Belgium. Schuh, who is currently pursuing a mast...

A former Hays County resident now living 400 miles from Wuhan, China, the city where the COVID-19 virus was first detected, strongly advises everyone here to listen to medical professionals instead of politicians when it comes to preventing its spread. T.D. Cox is principal at an international schoo...

Former Barton Publications reporter Carlie Porterfield left Texas to study international journalism at City, University of London, where she interned for Forbes magazine. She now works in New York City as a news reporter for Forbes. When I moved to New York City at the end of April, I was nervous ab...

Exsar Arguello working in his Buffalo, New York apartment. Former Barton Publications reporter talks about life in New York, where he currently works as a news producer for Spectrum News. As the COVID-19 pandemic takes hold of New York as the epicenter of the crisis, life in the Empire State has eer...

Dripping Springs First Methodist Church Pastor Adam Thorton looks to the few people helping him with Sunday service, then looks at empty aisles and the tiny open camera lens staring back at him. He has never been nervous before a Sunday service, but something is eerie about talking to an empty room....

A Driftwood distillery shifted gears from liquor to hand sanitizer and has donated 20,000 bottles of it to the Hays County Sheriff’s Office and police departments in Austin, San Antonio and Houston, among others. Desert Door, known for its premium spirit that uses Texas sotol, has pivoted its produc...

Staff report The staff and volunteers at the Hays Caldwell Women’s Center are used to dealing with people in crisis — they’ve been doing that for more than 40 years.   And they are continuing, even as the COVID-19 crisis has encroached into every area of everyday life. “We’re all looking for new way...

Although COVID-19 patients don’t need blood to help them get better, a lot of people need blood and organ transplants to save their lives. It has become difficult for blood donation stations to keep their reserves full if only 10 people are allowed to donate at a time. If you’re not sick and if you ...