Three Hays County charities dedicated to helping children and families received $25,000 each this week, courtesy of the Capital Area Housing Finance Corporation. On Dec. 4, Hays County commissioners presented a total of $75,000 to the Hays County Food Bank, the Southside Community Center and the Hay...

M ountain City residents with an email address are invited to complete the 2018 Christmas Light and Display Recognition Ballot at https://tinyurl.com/lmc2018decor this weekend. The voting will take place Friday at dark through 10 p.m. on Sunday, December 16. Loving Mountain City’s Décor Recognition ...

The Dripping Springs Community Foundation Board of Directors earlier this month awarded a grant in the amount of $2,000 to The Friends Foundation to help underwrite their Philips Lifeline MediAlert Program, which provides medic alert devices to local seniors for summoning help in an emergency. The c...

With a four-plus hour practice in her rear-view mirror Nov. 6, Texas State student and Hays High alumna Abbie Blackwell understood there might be a line when she took to McCormick Middle School to cast her ballot on Election Day. Little did Blackwell realize was that her polling site, Precinct 223, ...

   Thousands flocked to Main Street and the greenbelt in downtown Buda for the annual Budafest celebration, which was held by the city of Buda for a second straight year. Highlighting the weekend was Saturday’s lighted parade down the city’s main drag, where hundreds packed Main Street to see floats...

It’s hard to tell what will arouse a female bird and cause her to mate. A female peahen looks long and hard at the tail feathers of the male peacock. If they are bright with lots of colorful circles, she is much impressed. Take away that showy tail and she is completely turned off. Male blue-footed ...

Kyle city officials have lessened the city’s drought status from Stage 2 to Stage 1, effective Nov. 27. The shift comes as a result of conservation efforts from Edwards Aquifer Authority (EAA) and the Barton Springs Edwards Aquifer Conservation District (BSEACD), according to a city press release. S...

Center for Disease Control warns of E. coli outbreak in romaine lettuce A recent outbreak of E. coli in romaine lettuce harvested from farms in California prompted numerous grocery stores and restaurants last week to clear their shelves of the leafy greens. The move came after the Centers for Diseas...

T here has never been an easier time to go green. And you know what? It’s about time! Thank goodness gardening products like malathion, dursban, diazinon, spectracide, triforine and a thousand others are no longer viable options to combat our garden pests. Thank goodness also that we no longer have ...

P ostal inspectors effectively pulled the plug on a Corsicana-to-Palestine electric railway on Dec. 4, 1907 by banning the fraudulent firm from the U.S. mail. Following a modest debut in Ohio in 1889, the revolutionary new mode of transportation took the country by storm.   Enthusiasts brashly boast...