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  SAN MARCOS – Registration for the spring semester at Texas State University will begin at 7 a.m. on Monday, Oct. 19, for select groups. Students’ spring time tickets are assigned based on classification (e.g., senior, junior) but also divided into time slots based on overall hours earned as of Sep...

On October 12, 2020 at the age of 62, Linda Marie Ramirez of Kyle, Texas, entered the Heavenly Kingdom, surrounded by her loving family. Linda was born February 10, 1958 to Alejandro and Rosa Valenzuela Gomez in Brownsville, Texas. Linfs Ramirez She graduated from James Pace High School with the cla...

Sahar Chmais  The Dripping Springs Fair and Rodeo is still happening this year on Oct. 16 and 17, but the event will be a little different -- instead of a fair and rodeo, it will only showcase a rodeo for two consecutive nights.  Even though the city has not withheld hosting the rodeo, there will be...

The Hays Speech and Debate team is enjoying success early in the 2020-2021 competition season.  While the Covid-19 pandemic has halted in-person tournaments, technological advances have made it possible for students from across the nation to compete using an online service. Cameron Roberts Though sc...

Early voting for the general election that includes two seats on the Dripping Springs ISD Board of Trustees began on Tuesday and continues through Friday, Oct. 30. Election Day is Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2020. Four candidates are running for two positions on the Dripping Springs ISD Board of Trustees. They...

Staff Report Twenty Dripping Springs High School students have been recognized as College Board National Recognition Program Scholars. This honor was available to high school seniors who scored in the top 2.5% of PSAT/NMSQT tests and identified as one or more of the following: African American, Hisp...

by Sahar Chmais Vincent Lecca, a man who leads a life with a schedule built for three people, has expanded his passion for fishing into his love for volunteerism. His calm demeanor and smooth voice perfectly pair with what he has chosen to dedicate so much of his life to – fishing. The grand effect ...

Lt. Joe Faulkner recently graduated from the Leadership Command College as part of Class 87 of the Law Enforcement Management Institute of Texas (LEMIT). Module 1, focusing on leadership, is taught at the Center for Executive Development at Texas Woman’s University, focuses on the political, legal a...

The daughter of a long dead and all but forgotten hero of the Texas Revolution unveiled a statue of her tragic father at a Galveston intersection on Oct. 20, 1938. San Jacinto should have ensured him success and immortality, but Sidney Sherman knew only pain and disappointment. The most powerful pol...