Anita Miller Forty two people in Hays County had been diagnosed with the COVID-19 virus as of 4 p.m. Wedesday, April 1, with results still pending on 11 tests. COVID -19 CDC photo Four people remain hospitalized. Ten have recovered and 32 are considered “active.” There have also been 238 negative te...

The Mathworks program at Texas State University is offering free math resources to the public in response to COVID-19. Anyone with internet access can download curriculum material now through June 15, 2020. Valued at more than $250, the material includes Math Explorations curriculum for sixth throug...

More than 600 Chromebooks were checked out to DSISD families to assist students with remote/virtual learning based on responses to a survey regarding tech needs. Staff volunteers helped out, including Superintendent Todd Washburn directing traffic, Athletic Director/Head Football Coach Galen Zimmerm...

Kristie Schuh, a 2005 graduate of Dripping Springs High School, was selected to star in a one-person play, “Every Brilliant Thing,” that was presented at the 37th International Meeting of University Theatre at the Royal University of Theatre in Liege, Belgium. Schuh, who is currently pursuing a mast...

Former Barton Publications reporter Carlie Porterfield left Texas to study international journalism at City, University of London, where she interned for Forbes magazine. She now works in New York City as a news reporter for Forbes. When I moved to New York City at the end of April, I was nervous ab...

Exsar Arguello working in his Buffalo, New York apartment. Former Barton Publications reporter talks about life in New York, where he currently works as a news producer for Spectrum News. As the COVID-19 pandemic takes hold of New York as the epicenter of the crisis, life in the Empire State has eer...

Dripping Springs First Methodist Church Pastor Adam Thorton looks to the few people helping him with Sunday service, then looks at empty aisles and the tiny open camera lens staring back at him. He has never been nervous before a Sunday service, but something is eerie about talking to an empty room....

A Driftwood distillery shifted gears from liquor to hand sanitizer and has donated 20,000 bottles of it to the Hays County Sheriff’s Office and police departments in Austin, San Antonio and Houston, among others. Desert Door, known for its premium spirit that uses Texas sotol, has pivoted its produc...

By Anita Miller Residents in Blanco County a mile or so upstream of where the Kinder Morgans Permian Highway Pipeline (PHP) crossed the Blanco River are reporting brown tap water coming from their wells. One of them, who lives off FM 165 about a mile from the Chimney Valley Road turnoff in Blanco po...

AUSTIN ⎯ The Texas Workforce Commission ( TWC ) has launched a new automated virtual assistant to help Texans sign up for unemployment insurance ( UI ). The artificial intelligence-enabled chatbot can instantly answer many of the most common questions about the UI process. The program is expected to...