DRIPPING SPRING — Two Dripping Springs ISD campuses have been awarded the prestigious Counselors Reinforcing Excellence for Students in Texas (CREST) award by the Texas School Counselor Association (TSCA). Rooster Springs Elementary and its counseling team of Kimberlee Guerrero and Michelle Gilpin e...

The Dripping Springs ISD superintendent and board members, along with the Sycamore Springs Middle School principal, cheerleaders and tiger mascots, break ground on the SSMS expansion project on Friday, Feb. 16. The new expansion will increase student capacity from 850 to 1,200 and is expected to ope...

DRIPPING SPRINGS  —   On Monday, Feb. 12, the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality hosted a public hearing for the Texas Land Application Permit (TLAP) at Dripping Springs Ranch Park. The Mirasol Springs development group and Murfee Engineering Company (MEC) presented  plans for the property an...

The following article is part three of a four-week series focusing on raising awareness about dating violence. February is Dating Violence Awareness month and we hope to educate our community on this very important issue. One in three young people will experience dating violence in their lifetime.  ...

Charles and Nancy Handrick, and immediate past president Justin Krause, of the Buda Lions Club visited Historic Buda Elementary on Thursday, Feb. 15, to present administrators from Hays CISD’s three comprehensive high schools with funds from football game concession sales. Altogether, the Buda Lions...

KYLE — For 30 years, the Texas Parks & Wildlife Department (TPWD) has been offering the Becoming an Outdoors-Woman (BOW) workshop to provide a supportive space where women can feel comfortable learning new skills associated with hunting, fishing and other outdoor activities. And for Kyle resident Ch...

BUDA — The Jack C. Hays High School MCJROTC recently became the 2024 Marine Corps National Sporter Three-Position Air Rifle Champions for the first time in the program's 29-year history. The tournament took place in Sandy, Utah, on Feb. 8-10. In addition to winning the MCJROTC Team Championship, tea...

HAYS COUNTY — While they are decreasing in some parts of the country, rates of COVID-19-, flu- and respiratory syncytial virus (RSV)- related hospitalizations still remain elevated, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. And for the state of Texas as a whole, the respiratory il...