Staff Report JOHNSON CITY — Pedernales Electric Cooperative is now accepting applications for community grants; the cooperative encourages nonprofits across PEC’s service area to apply for up to $5,000 grants through Oct. 18. PEC awards community grants to help nonprofits fund important projects tha...

Staff Report BUDA — Residents from Buda Oaks Assisted Living and Memory Care are preparing to take over the kitchen on Sept. 27 for a Spaghetti Benefit Dinner. In an effort to support the Brown Santa Program, a nonprofit that provides gifts and food to those in need, the residents are cooking a feas...

Karla Lewis receives a free haircut from Kiara Soriano on Sept. 11 at K’s Cutting Edge Salon. The salon was giving out free haircuts to women first responders in honor of Patriots Day. Lewis has been a member of the army for the past 12 years.

By Brittany Kelley BUDA — Buda residents Garrett 17, and Ava, 16, Gray suffered tragedy at a young age when their father, Maj. W. David Gray, who served in the Air Force, was killed in August 2012. Although their loss affects them greatly, through the assistance of Tragedy Assistance Program for Sur...

BUDA — When Donelle Mendoza moved to Texas from California six years ago, she found that she was missing the traditional and authentic flavors that she loved on the West Coast. What started out as selling birria tacos from her apartment window turned in to climbing to the top and now, earning her a ...

BUDA — The Greater Buda Chamber of Commerce hosted the city of Buda State of the Community on Sept. 11 to convey the future of the city, as well as its achievements, to local business owners and officials. Mayor Lee Urbanovsky took to the stage to begin a presentation on several city aspects. First,...

Week three of Texas high school football matched a pair of the top 4A teams in Central Texas. The Wimberley High School Texans (2-0) and Lyndon B. Johnson Early College High School Jaguars (1-0), both ranked in the state’s top 10, squared off last Friday night in a nondistrict match at Nelson Field ...

The Dripping Springs Tigers football team ran off the clock after making a first down with under a minute in the fourth quarter for a 41-38 win in a non-district game over the Harker Heights High School Knights on Friday, Sept. 13, at Leo Buckley Stadium in Killeen. Dripping Springs quarterback Madd...

Capital Highlights A 200-page report from the Department of Homeland Security faulted U.S. Border Patrol agents who rushed to the Uvalde school shooting in 2022, concluding they “failed to establish command and had inadequate training” in one of the deadliest classroom attacks, The Dallas Morning Ne...

DRIPPING SPRINGS — Before a packed gym on Friday, Sept. 13, the Dripping Springs Lady Tigers volleyball team hosted the Cornerstone Christian High School Warriors from San Antonio for a non-district matchup. The Tigers are ranked number 4 in the nation and the Warriors are ranked number 2. The game ...