AUSTIN- Enrollment at Texas State University System institutions reached a record high this semester, despite challenges caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. Fall 2020 preliminary headcount enrollment at TSUS’s seven member institutions is 87,387 - a one percent increase compared to Fall 2019.   “Facu...

Dripping Springs High School senior Lauren Sanders is one of 100 students selected to be published by the iWRITE Nonprofit Organization. Her entry was a poem called “ The Truth of the Stars.”   Lauren Sanders Each year, iWRITE offers students in Grades 3-12 the opportunity to submit short stories, p...

WIMBERLEY – Blue Hole Primary School in Wimberley has just been open since August, and the honors have already begun to roll in. The architecture firm of O’Connell Robertson and engineering firm MEP say it has won the 2020 Rain Catcher Award from the Texas Water Development Board and the school, the...

The Hays Speech and Debate team is enjoying success early in the 2020-2021 competition season.  While the Covid-19 pandemic has halted in-person tournaments, technological advances have made it possible for students from across the nation to compete using an online service. Cameron Roberts Though sc...

Staff Report Twenty Dripping Springs High School students have been recognized as College Board National Recognition Program Scholars. This honor was available to high school seniors who scored in the top 2.5% of PSAT/NMSQT tests and identified as one or more of the following: African American, Hisp...

By Anita Miller Imagine you are a child whose parent does not come home one day. Bad as that is, it happens for a variety of reasons. But imagine that reason is because the parent is in jail and likely bound for prison. Immediately, your household is run by a single parent even if it wasn’t before. ...

by Chase Rogers The Hays County League of Women Voters chapter held a virtual forum for candidates vying for a position on the Dripping Springs Independent School District Board of Trustees Oct. 1, discussing school district’s growth, COVID-19 mitigation and school funding. Their terms originally sl...

By Megan Wehring  Zoom webinars have become the new platform for candidate forums as election preparations are encompassed by the COVID-19 pandemic.  The candidates for Wimberley ISD Board of Trustees are Gretchen Holtsinger and Lexi Jones. These candidates only provided their opening statements. Le...

By Megan Wehring HAYS COUNTY – The COVID-19 pandemic continues to be at the forefront of many minds as in-person learning for some Hays CISD students is right around the corner on Monday, Sept. 28.   Superintendent Dr. Eric Wright provided an update for the 2020-2021 school year at the Hays Board ag...

By Megan Wehring  HAYS COUNTY – Hays CISD administration recommended for the Board to approve an amended compensation plan for the 2020-2021 school year.  The Hays CISD Board of Trustees previously approved the plan in June to give all employees a 2% salary increase. Administration brought back an a...