Whether trying out a Texas-made wine, or sampling an assortment of gourmet foods, patrons made their way to Dripping Springs Ranch Park for the 9th annual Dripping With Taste Food and Wine Festival on Saturday, which was sponsored by the Dripping Springs Chamber of Commerce and Visitors Bureau. The ...

By Moses Leos III Creation of a ninth emergency services district (ESD) will be going to Hays County voters in November as the commissioners court unanimously approved it to go on the ballot. Commissioners voted 5-0 to call an election for the creation of ESD 9, which would provide EMS service for c...

Regarding the article  “Buda backs opposition to discharge permit”  dated July 27th 2016, I want to be clear that there isn’t any bad blood between The City Buda and Drippings Springs or between myself and Mayor Todd Purcell. Mayor Purcell and I had a very productive phone conversation this week. We...

By Moses Leos III Buda last week became the latest entity to pass a resolution outlining its concerns over Dripping Springs’ proposed permit to discharge treated effluent into Walnut Springs, a tributary of Onion Creek.  The Buda City Council July 19 adopted a resolution supporting the Barton Spring...

Many conversations are ongoing around the City of Dripping Springs’ pursuit of a necessary discharge permit from the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) in order to expand our wastewater treatment facility. It’s a complex topic of great interest to many in our community and for good rea...

By Moses Leos III Citizens packed the Dripping Springs Water Supply Corporation meeting Monday to relay concerns about the possible effects on DSWSC wells if the city’s proposed discharge permit of treated effluent is approved. The board, however, opted not to place an item on next month’s agenda to...

By Moses Leos III Roughly a week after the Barton Springs Edwards Aquifer Conservation District (BSEACD) formally opposed Dripping Springs’ proposed discharge permit, the Hays Trinity Groundwater Conservation District (HTGCD) Thursday followed suit. By a 4-1 vote, the HTGCD made a resolution opposin...

Dripping Springs has applied to the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) for a permit to potentially dump up to 950,000 gallons of treated effluent into Onion Creek, daily. This is their solution to their rapid growth. Reasonable folks would agree that this seems a shortsighted solution ...

By Moses Leos III and Paige Lambert H aving worked in the field of event planning for several years, Alisha Randig understands fulfilling odd requests often comes with the territory. But what started out as a request from clients to have donkeys at an event led Randig to become the first to conceptu...

By Paige Lambert Longtime radio personality Bama Brown has spent the holidays with movie stars. Country music A-listers have shot music videos on his property.  But he is more likely to be found today helping Dripping Springs. Brown and his wife Jamie Thompson moved to Dripping Springs in 1999.  But...