DRIPPING SPRINGS — The city of Dripping Springs is launching its inaugural Hometown Holidays campaign, a season-long celebration designed to bring the community together for the holidays. Kicking off in November and running through the New Year, Hometown Holidays is a comprehensive campaign that wea...

DRIPPING SPRINGS  — With the total solar eclipse coming in just a little more than three weeks, the city of Dripping Springs and the Community Eclipse Task Force are preparing for the eclipse, and the anticipated influx of visitors, to ensure that all areas of the city are as prepared as possible. T...

DRIPPING SPRINGS — At its Oct. 3 meeting, the Dripping Springs City Council approved several proclamations and appointed two individuals to the Dripping Springs Ranch Park (DSRP) Board of Directors. National 4-H Week The council proclaimed Oct. 7-13 to be National 4-H Week in the city of Dripping Sp...

by Anita Miller This topsy-turvy year is going to come to the Christmas season before we know it. When it does, Dripping Springs’ Mercer Street will hopefully be ablaze with traditional holiday lights. A big step toward that goal occurred Sept. 8, when the City Council approved a $5,000 matching gra...

The approval of pre-construction services related to the town center in Dripping Springs will pave the way for a project that is anticipated to expand the city’s downtown sector. On April 16, the Dripping Springs City Council voted unanimously to green-light an agreement to financial assist the Tax ...

Thousands took to historic Mercer Street in downtown Dripping Springs for the fifth annual Dripping Springs Songwriters Festival, held Oct. 19-21. Aubrin Stevens from Nashville, TN and Melody Guy from Springhill, TN warm up for their next set at The Dripping Springs Songwriters Festival on historic ...

While it may have closed its doors for good last month, owners of the Mercer Street Dance Hall are preparing for a comeback in the near future. A new facility, located on a parcel of land between Dripping Springs and Wimberley on Ranch Road 12, will run under the same brand, name, image and love for...

An iconic downtown Dripping Springs dance and music venue will bring down its curtains for good next month. On Monday, owners of the Mercer Street Dance Hall announced via a gofundme crowdfunding page plans to close the location, citing a lost battle against “exorbitant rent increases” by landlords ...

Significant changes may be underway in the conceptual plan for the Dripping Springs Town Center project approved by the Tax Increment Reinvestment Zone (TIRZ)  Board. On Dec. 4, the Dripping Springs Independent School District (DSISD) Superintendent Bruce Gearing said the district is developing an a...

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...