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...

Tara Krzywonski of the Austin Astronomical Society peers through a telescope during Saturday’s star party at the Texas Night Sky Festival in Dripping Springs. The stars at night were big and bright at Dripping Springs Ranch Park as the Texas Night Sky Festival took place Saturday. The event featured...

  By Moses Leos III  UPDATE:  Hays High principal David Pierce sent a letter to the Hays community Sunday afternoon informing them of the passing of David Null.  Pierce said in his letter that the school has arranged for the Hays High counseling team to be on hand to support students.  "Students wil...

by Jeff Wilkinson   M uch attention has been paid in recent months to the environmental aspects of the City of Dripping Springs’ proposed wastewater-system expansion and requisite discharge permit.  And, rightly so.  It’s an incredibly complex project with many moving parts.    I’m glad our communit...

Guest column by Wes Pitts   I n a recent op-ed, Patrick Rose applauded the decision by the city of Dripping Springs to expand the South Regional Wastewater Treatment System, a move to keep the city from running out of wastewater capacity by 2017. No one should fault the city for taking steps to prev...

by Patrick Rose   T he City of Dripping Springs is moving forward with an expansion of the South Regional Wastewater Treatment System, which serves the wastewater needs of our growing community.   The facts are simple – unless we act now, we could run out of wastewater capacity by 2017, a reality th...