DSISD students earn top honors at livestock show At the annual Hays County Livestock Show, many DSISD students representing Dripping Springs FFA or 4H were successful. Projects of nine DSISD students received Grand Champion honors, while two others were Reserve Grand Champion. In addition, three stu...

In November 2011, Amberlyn Fett, 22, lost her lifelong battle with Cystic Fibrosis, but her legacy of caring and giving during the holiday season and the charity she created lives on. Numerous hospitalized children of all ages at Dell Children’s Medical Center in Austin this past Christmas received ...

UPDATE – 12:35 p.m. Jan. 9  Officials have reopened Trautwein Road to through traffic after clearing the overturned 18-wheeler. EARLIER  Authorities have closed Trautwein Road between U.S. Highway 290 and Fitzhugh Road in the Dripping Springs area Wednesday after an 18-wheeler went off a low-water c...

More than 20 Hays County roads and low water crossings have closed Tuesday due to high water as a result of steady, and at times heavy, rainfall, according to a press release. According to officials, FM 1626 at Cole Springs Road has closed due to water over the road. Several low water crossings alon...

What began as a dispute among Wimberley city leaders over office furniture within City Hall Dec. 6 escalated into chaos after a city council member opted to resign. Patricia Kelly, who was elected in May, spent most of the Dec. 6 meeting trying to make a statement, but was constantly shut down by Ma...

Heavy rainfall on Saturday night is leaving county officials to close a number of roads throughout Hays County. Below is the list of roads that are currently closed in Hays County. A full list can be found at atxfloods.com and haysinformed.com. At around 4 p.m. on Friday, December 7, the National We...

An “intentional incendiary act” is what authorities at a Nov. 30 press conference say was the cause of the deadly July 20 Iconic Village apartment fire in San Marcos, which killed five people and displaced more than 200. The San Marcos Fire Department and the Houston Field Division of the Bureau of ...

In an effort to conform to a 2015 U.S. Supreme Court ruling, Dripping Springs leaders are working to craft a new sign ordinance in order to give additional freedoms to place noncommercial signs. Dripping Springs’ new proposed sign ordinance is meant to comply with Reed V. Town of Gilbert, a 2015 sup...

After months of culling nominations and receiving input from you, our readers, we at the Hays Free Press and News-Dispatch are proud to announce our winners for our Citizens of the Year campaign. The premise of our campaign was to find those who make an impact across various categories in our commun...

Prior to taking off to Washington D.C. from Austin Bergstrom International Airport in September, Vietnam veteran and Dripping Springs resident Sheldon Miller made sure his son offered him three simple words when he got back.  Those words were something Miller and countless others never quite got a c...