The City of Dripping Springs recently filed an application for a discharge permit with the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ).   This permit would allow us to expand our wastewater system, which is badly needed, not only to prepare for future development, but also to meet current deman...

By Belle Nelson The City of Buda won’t dump treated wastewater into Onion Creek, even though it’s within the safe and sanitary conditions established by the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ). That announcement came during the council’s Oct. 13 regular meeting as part of a press releas...

Submitted report For a second straight year, the historic district of Dripping Springs will play host to the annual Dripping Springs Songwriters Festival.  The festival, which features a variety of singer/songwriter showcases, will be held October 16-18 along Mercer Street.   Event stages will be lo...

By Todd Purcell, Mayor of Dripping Springs I’ve lived in Dripping Springs much of my life. It’s my home.  My kids have grown up here; my family planted roots on Onion Creek decades ago.  I am fiercely protective of our city and our natural resources.  I also have the privilege of serving as mayor, a...

O nion Creek is both a defining landmark and a potent talisman for our community, symbolizing as it does both the bounteous wonder and the fragility of our little part of the world. In peril from recurrent drought and changing climate, and even development on its banks, now Onion Creek could become ...

By Paige Lambert The land was supposed to be a zoo, then a retail store, then a restaurant. The restaurant would later become one of Dripping Springs’ most well-known attractions. Nutty Brown Café. The name brings to mind music, family, food. But it’s going to be a thing of the past, come 2016, as t...

by Moses Leos III Four Hays County men are among the over 170 people arrested following a deadly shootout between police and biker gangs at a Waco Twin Peaks restaurant on May 17. According to information gathered from Waco television station KWTX, Lawrence Raymond Yager, 66, of Buda, Matthew Yocum,...

By ANDY SEVILLA Dripping Springs residents in the Ledgestone subdivision of Highway 290 are advised to stay indoors as Hays County Sheriff’s deputies work an active rash of attempted home break-ins Friday night. A man who attempted to burglarized several homes in the Ledgestone subdivision Friday ni...

  By ANDY SEVILLA During the course of a burglary investigation in Dripping Springs, authorities learned the suspect in that case was himself an alleged victim of ongoing kidnapping just a few doors down from where he is believed to have broken in. Dane and Jenifer Thyssen were arrested and charged ...