Submitted Report Dripping Springs High senior Seeley Haas (left) and sophomore Riley Wheaton won first place statewide for their grade division in the Texas Association for Pupil Transportation (TAPT) School Bus Safety Speech Contest. Haas also took the overall first-place award, recording the highe...

More than 60 percent of Wimberley ISD voters May 5 gave the green light to a $45.5 million bond package that includes construction of a new primary school campus. The referendum, which was approved with 67 percent of the 2,520 voters who took part in the election, also includes a $.065 ad valorem ta...

Wimberley Birding Society meeting Steven Fulton, manager of the Bamberger Ranch near Blanco, will be guest speaker at Wimberley Birding Society’s quarterly meeting, set for 10 a.m., Monday, May 21, in the Wimberley community center. Fulton has a biology degree and has work experience with Nature Con...

The discovery of an endangered bird on the site of a proposed Driftwood-area wedding venue could lead to a several-month postponement of the project. Residents of the Goldenwood, Radiance and Goldenwood West neighborhoods, which surround the site of the Mark Black Wedding Venue, submitted a formal c...

By Exsar Arguello The fight over Dripping Springs $132 million bond package may not be over just yet. On May 14, the Citizens for Excellent Education in Dripping Springs (CEEDS) successfully fundraised roughly $1,500 to conduct a recount through Hays County and DSISD. The move, which was officially ...

An influx of people is leading the city of Blanco to seek a permit to allow expansion of its wastewater treatment plant (WWTP).  But the permit is concerning Hays County officials who fear the discharge of up to 1.6 million gallons per day of treated effluent into a point along the Blanco River coul...

With funding now accounted for, Wimberley is moving forward with the addition of sewer lines in downtown, as well as its proposed $7.5 million wastewater treatment plant (WWTP). The joint project marks the city’s initiative to accommodate a growing population and downtown tourist presence that drive...

A Dripping Springs man has been identified as the victim in a fatal single-vehicle wreck along Ranch Road 12 just outside of Dripping Springs.  Ernest Tamayo, 58, of Dripping Springs, was killed in the wreck, according to a Texas Department of Public Safety spokesperson.  According to a DPS report, ...

Dripping Springs ISD’s proposed $132 million bond measure passed by a slim 31 vote margin May 5, marking a victory in the district’s initiative to accommodate for growing classroom populations. The measure was approved by 50.47 percent of the 3,293 total voters who participated in the bond referendu...

After seven years through civil and criminal court, a former Dripping Springs Water Supply Corporation (DSWSC) general manager is being denied over $700,000 in retirement. Doug Cones’ name was cleared in December 2017 after he was accused of stealing up to $20,000 in property, costing him his job at...