Dreams of the late Gay Dahlstrom for turning part of her family’s vast ranch into a space for ecological stewardship and education is slowly coming to fruition. With the help of $100,000 in state grants, Hays County earlier this year began construction on a public 3.15-mile trail system located with...

L ong-time Buda resident Eloise Gay Dahlstrom passed from our midst this week. It was expected, in a way, but the chasm left still stuns. Is the passing of a matriarch ever easy? And Gay Dahlstrom certainly was one of Buda’s matriarchs. Newcomers to town may not understand the Dahlstrom name, other ...