All we ever hear from Dripping Springs is that its intentions are not to discharge sewage effluent into Onion Creek with the discharge permit they seek. I’m sure they are telling you the same thing, that you should resolve to support this because “with all this beneficial reuse we’re getting signed ...

A Dripping Springs native who is a science teacher at Lockhart High was arrested Monday after police allege she engaged in an improper relationship with a 17-year-old student.  Sarah Madden Fowlkes, 27, was booked into the Caldwell County Jail on a charge of improper relationship between educator an...

Negotiations continued after an executive session during Thursday’s Barton Springs Edwards Aquifer Conservation District (BSEACD) meeting on Dripping Springs’ request to discharge treated effluent into the Onion Creek Watershed. The BSEACD reviewed with its attorney the draft settlement prepared by ...

A Hays County man is recovering after he was shot following a verbal altercation with another man at a Dripping Springs residence Wednesday night. Authorities are now searching for Grosbin A. Sabillon, 30, who is suspected of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon. Grosbin A. Sabillon According to ...

Dripping Springs city officials have thrown their support behind two potential apartment complexes that have applied for federal tax credits to help create workforce housing. Earlier this month, the Dripping Springs City Council approved resolutions in support of applications filed by the Western Sp...

Having lived in Los Angeles for a time, business owner Juan Chan said he has been around food trucks for a “long time.” With an impending move to Dripping Springs on the horizon, Chan last year opened the LeMuse Coffee Bar food trailer in order to bring a new option to the city. But plans to impleme...

Six citizen environmental groups have submitted a letter to Austin city leaders asking them to continue negotiations with Dripping Springs for a potential no-discharge solution. The letter came as the six organizations, which include Protect Our Water (POW) and the Save our Springs Alliance (SOS), r...

ear Dripping Springs community, friends, and family, A big thank you to our community!   Kirk & I first sat on the bench in front of the Post Office on Mercer Street in 1988 when we moved to a home on Creek Road.  Mercer Street was a quiet, sleepy, downtown street with most of the activity taking pl...

Dripping Springs city leaders are moving forward toward the creation of two municipal utility districts (MUDs). Earlier this month, the Dripping Springs City Council approved a resolution consenting to the creation of the Driftwood 552 project, which is located near the FM 967 and FM 1826 intersecti...

With the possibility of short-term rentals popping up in Dripping Springs, city officials are crafting new rules regulating them. That process began earlier this month when the Dripping Springs Planning and Zoning (P&Z) commission took up an amendment to the city’s current zoning ordinance. Within t...