The Kyle Garden Club (KGC) has drawn inspiration from music about flowers to host its first flower show, "Garden Melodies," in two decades on Saturday, May 13. “Garden Melodies” will be held from 1-4 p.m. in the Family Life Center of the Kyle United Methodist Church and is open to the public. Kyle G...

HAYS COUNTY — Hearing that your child has cancer is heartbreaking for parents. Heather Keiler-Green and Ben Fest want to help families of children who are fighting cancer — a battle that they know all too well — through The Phoenix Stone Foundation. The 501(c)(3) nonprofit was created to honor and c...

Hays Count y — Addressing Cancer Together coalition and Community Action have joined forces to bring breast cancer health services to low-income women in Hays, Williamson and Bastrop counties. Community Action is the coordinator between the patient and the screening company. “We are looking for unin...

Senate, House begin budget reconciliation process The Texas Senate unanimously approved a $308 billion two-year budget last week, the Austin American-Statesman reported. The next step is to reconcile that budget with one passed earlier by the Texas House. The Senate’s budget funds $10 billion in ele...

IT'S NOT ALWAYS SUNNY “You've done all of your homework and studied hard, and you think you have a grip on the material. But then the day of the test comes. Suddenly, you blank out, freeze up, zone out, or feel so nervous that you can't get it together to respond to those questions you knew the answ...

As of the first day of early voting for the May 6 election, there were 626 voters for Dripping Springs ISD and 98 for Hays CISD, according to Hays County Elections Office data. The breakdown of DSISD voters on April 24 is 231 in Austin, 57 in Driftwood, 337 in Dripping Springs and one marked as othe...

BUDA — At its April 17 meeting, Buda City Council was presented with the audit of the Annual Comprehensive Financial Report for Fiscal Year 2022, which ended Sept. 30, 2022. Buda Finance Director Bianca Redmon started by announcing that Buda City Council received an “unmodified, clean opinion” on th...

REMEMBERING LAMONT RAMAGE HAYS COUNTY — Former Justice of the Peace Lamont Ramage died Tuesday, April 13 after battling a long illness, surrounded by his greatest legacy — his family. Long before Ramage would go on to become a pillar of the Hays County community, he met Sandra (Dobson) Ramage, his h...

BUDA — Upon entering Johnson High School on Saturday April 22, real-life princesses in ball gowns opened the doors and music from a simpler time played through the sound system. Turning the corner to enter the cosmetology center, where the event would be taking place, the music became muffled by lau...

Test Season The STAAR test looks different this year for students. The Texas Education Agency (TEA) said that the test was redesigned to make it more closely aligned with classroom instruction. Under House Bill 3906, passed by the 86th Texas Legislature in 2019, TEA has been exploring the “most inst...