KYLE — The Hays CISD Board of Trustees approved the 2024 tax rate at its Aug. 26 meeting. Agenda documents state that the tax rate would be $1.1546 per $100 valuation for the 2025 fiscal year. The following lists the breakdown of the total: • $0.6669 maintenance and operations • $0.4877 for the prin...

SAN MARCOS — The Hays County Health Department hosted the Centers for Disease Control and the Department of State Health Services (DSHS) for a presentation of its services and work on Wednesday, Aug. 21. The visit included the HCHD showcasing what the team has been doing through a Health Equity & Co...

KYLE — After working at a luxury spa in California, Lori Claxton-Anthony and Troya Rollins looked at each other and declared that they could “do it better.” One pandemic and a move to Texas later, the pair is now operating Bungalow 7 Wellness Collection, a massage and meditation spa focused on uplif...

SAN MARCOS — The courtroom was packed with supporters for 31-year-old DeVonte Amerson on Aug. 29, as he and his attorney prepared to motion for dismissal, but after discussions with the state prosecutor and judge, the defendant was granted a separate dismissal hearing to be held on Sept. 23. DeVonte...

HAYS COUNTY — Hays County schools are some of 100 across the state of Texas that dedicated their first football game of the season as the Peanut Butter Bowl to support fellow members of the community. The Peanut Butter Bowl was started in 2016 in San Antonio with one game between two high schools in...

SAN MARCOS — The San Marcos Regional Animal Shelter will be retiring as the county’s intake facility at the end of 2026, with the hope that the county’s new pet resource center will take over the responsibility. At it's Aug. 20 meeting, San Marcos City Council approved an interlocal agreement to pro...

A Houston judge learned on Sep. 8, 1939 that his daughter not only had survived the U-boat sinking of the British passenger ship Athenia but also had been hailed as a heroine by the American ambassador. In her last letter before leaving Europe, Helen Hannay asked her parents not to worry.  “There ma...

WIMBERLEY — The Wimberley Texans held a 39-0 lead when starting quarterback Cody Stoever came out of the game in the third quarter last Friday night in the season opener against Canyon Lake High School. Junior Jackson Parker came in at quarterback and the Texans put 7 more points on the board for a ...

AUSTIN  — On Friday, Aug. 30, the Dripping Springs Tigers traveled to Monroe Memorial Stadium in Austin to take on the Vandegrift High School Vipers in a non-district game. After the battle, the final score was Vipers 31, Tigers 14. The Vipers won the coin toss and deferred to the second half. The V...

I came to journalism in an abnormal way; I am not a traditional, go-to-college kind of guy. Instead, I started my adult life by going to cosmetology school. I graduated in 2019 and started in my first salon in the middle of January 2020. Then, the COVID-19 pandemic happened. We were all in quarantin...