Making sure he’s dressed for the part, Kyle Parks and Recreations worker Joe Loya dons a large holiday ornament as a rather fancy earring while in a cherry picker at Mary Kyle Hartson City Square Park last week. (photo by Moses Leos III) While there were some fun and games, workers hastily put the f...

inutes after the fatal shooting of President Kennedy on Nov. 22, 1963, Dallas police found a trio of unusually well-dressed tramps in a boxcar behind the “grassy knoll” and marched them single-file through Dealey Plaza. Photographers snapped several pictures of the passing parade.   In the ensuing y...

Buda Trail of Lights Trail of Lights is a free holiday event held at Historic Stagecoach Park where visitors walk a lighted trail through the park to view the dazzling exhibits, sip hot chocolate, and meet Santa. See the spectacles of the holiday season at this annual event from 6-10 p.m. nightly De...

usic was in the air as the 50-plus Night Hawk Frozen Foods employees danced and cheered along the assembly line during the Hays County Food Bank’s holiday meal box “Boxing Day”. Hays County Food Bank (HCFB) has been hosting the Turkeys Tackling Hunger holiday meal box program for 11 years and starte...

exas State University continues to assist select groups of students from varying high schools through the Upward Bound program. Ray Cordero, Grant Director at Texas State University, said the Upward Bound Program, an early academic intervention and college prepatory program, is one of three the univ...

(courtesy photo) On the Friday before Thanksgiving week, students at Rooster Springs Elementary School   celebrated their love of learning with fun activities. The day started with a school-wide parade with students and teachers dressed as their favorite book characters, then a school assembly had a...

There may be no joy at Hays High this spring as overages in the cost of the district’s $3.6 million baseball and softball complex could push construction back to January 2018. Carter Scherff, Hays CISD deputy superintendent, said the district is in a holding pattern with the complex, which was appro...

Wallace Middle School member of the all region orchestra (photo by Jim Cullen) Earlier this month, 12 Chapa Middle School band musicians (above) earned district band honors. That group included (front row, L-R) Matthew Fraiser, Phoebe Murphy, Aiden Schupbach, Layla Tellez, Casey Jennings, Erik Lopez...

The Hays CISD board of trustees voted 6-0 Wednesday to name Dr. Eric Wright, current superintendent of Fredricksburg ISD, as the lone finalist for the district’s superintendent position. The board, which cast the vote during a special called meeting, now must wait 21 days as required by law before t...

he iconic strains of holiday classics such as “O Little Town of Bethlehem” and “Jingle Bell Rock” fill a small room labeled “Orchestra” at Dripping Springs High. Inside are seven students, part of a before-school orchestra club, who make their stringed instruments sing in preparation for upcoming ho...