Foster children change homes an average of four to six times every two years, and oftentimes move with nothing but a trash bag of clothes and hope for care, according to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. A Buda nonprofit CEO and mother, Susan Ramirez, started Austin Angels with the h...

Editor’s note: Below is the second part of a two-part series written by Kate McCarty, a longtime Hays County resident who recently traveled to the border to give supplies to migrants donated by Hays County Democrats. The second part focuses on advocacy groups assisting migrants at the border. By Kat...

B y July 26, 1881, the desperate young cowboy had put a hundred miles between him and a blood-splattered barroom in Bryan. Three days of hard riding in the broiling summer heat must have seemed like an eternity to Reuben Stillwell. But with the Brazos County sheriff breathing down his neck, the 21-y...

Kyle elected leaders are in the initial stages of planning for a veterans memorial to be built in Plum Creek. On July 2, a group of Kyle’s military veterans relayed their thoughts on the memorial’s design and timeline. The memorial is currently designed on the lake in Plum Creek near the Hays CISD P...

I f you are looking for a strikingly beautiful flowering plant that loves our hot and dry summers, look no further than bougainvillea. This pretty plant, known for its wide variety of bright colors, was discovered in South America by Philibert Commercon, a botanist accompanying French explorer Louis...

Surrounded by friends and family under the shade of canopies natural and otherwise, Dale Roberson July 6 proudly outlined his new goal of living past the age of 90. The announcement elicited smiles and applause from those who came to not only celebrate Roberson’s 82nd trip around the sun at his prop...

By Alvin Plexico, Navy Office of Community Outreach NORFOLK, Va. – Most Americans rely on weather forecasts to plan their daily routine. The U.S. Navy is no different. With numerous ships, submarines and airplanes deployed in the U.S. Atlantic Fleet’s area of operations, sailors stationed at the Fle...

By Kate McCarty Editor’s note: Kate McCarty is a longtime Hays County resident who recently took a trip to the Texas border to donate supplies collected by the Hays County Democrats.  The temperature in the parking lot near the Progreso Bridge in south Texas was 95 degrees, but it was much hotter at...

Fifty years ago this week, billions across the globe huddled around tube television sets to watch Neil Armstrong become the first person to step foot on the surface of the moon. Or at least that’s what the majority of people tend to believe (we won’t get into that debate today). Regardless, the mome...

by Donna Ellis My garden is my happy place. Sound familiar?  Never met a plant I didn’t find beautiful. Use is a matter of imagination.  My dooryard potager (kitchen garden) has 37 plants, and some are part of my tea habit.   Tea-making uses fresh or dried plants, individually or in mixtures. Clip t...