L ike Marcia McClendon says, ““You never know what beauty you may come across in Mountain City.” At our house, for over a week, we’ve been mesmerized watching a glamourous red dragonfly with shimmering wings. When I mentioned on FaceBook the dragonfly’s repetitious dipping onto the surface of a pudd...

The project the late Gay Ruby Dahlstrom worked for almost a decade over is now complete and open to the public as a nature preserve and conservation easement. Hays County, the Hill Country Conservancy and the Dahlstrom family announced the opening of the Gay Ruby Dahlstrom Preserve. The nature prese...

R oughly 180 participants took the plunge into the San Marcos River as they began the 2019 Texas Water Safari, a 260-mile canoe race from San Marcos to Seadrift, located along the Texas Coast. The winner of the race was a six-person team named Skid Row, that finished the trek in 34 hours and 26 minu...

Five Hays CISD middle school students were named as winners recently in a writing contest about water. Winning students received prizes ranging from $100 to $500. Finalists were selected from Barton, Chapa, McCormick, Dahlstrom and Simon middle schools. The grand-prize winner was from Dahlstrom Midd...

Loving thy neighbor, no matter their background, is the driver behind a band of Wimberley community members’ quest to organize the city’s first Pride Parade. As Wimberley city leaders offered June 6 their support and encouragement for the event, many were moved to tears as organizers offered testimo...

Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service’s Healthy Lawns and Healthy Waters Program will host a residential rainwater harvesting and turf management training June 20 in Kyle. The free program will be from 1-5 p.m. at the Kyle Fire Department 1, 210 W. Moore St. It is being offered in collaboration with ...

The Friends of the Buda Library is holding its annual Summer Contest for Young Writers. The contest is open to all writers between the ages of 8 to 17. The competition will be split into the ages 8-12 division and a 13-17 group. Stories are limited to 500 words or less and only one entry per person....

Growing up, Lehman High senior Cameron Saucedo had an inkling of what career path he’d eventually seek. After watching his father serve with the Kyle Fire Department (KFD) for many years, Saucedo naturally envisioned following his footsteps into the public service sector. Through Hays CISD’s two-yea...

The Friends Foundation, an all-volunteer 501(c)(3) organization in Dripping Springs, is in dire need of volunteer drivers for its Our Daily Bread program, to deliver meals in the greater Dripping Springs area. The program is now providing meals to about 25 elderly clients. Currently the schedule has...

I have a friendly gray fox who visits my backyard. He likes to jump up in my birdbath for a drink and he will also eat sunflower seeds that fall from my seed feeder. I am a little surprised that I have never seen a coyote around doing the same things. After all, coyotes are found in all 48 continent...