In accordance with an order issued by Texas Gov. Greb Abbott, the Hays CISD May 2 bond election has been moved to Nov. 3. The board of trustees voted unanimously during a online zoom special meeting on Monday to change the election date. The remainder of the meeting was devoted to an update by Super...

Dojo Kyle Jiu-Jitsu continues to practice and practice the resiliency lessons by offering regularly scheduled classes through Zoom videoconferencing. As everyone tries to live their normal lives through this period of staying at home, Dojo Kyle Jiu-Jitsu co-owner Will Caldwell says he believes he is...

A former Hays County resident now living 400 miles from Wuhan, China, the city where the COVID-19 virus was first detected, strongly advises everyone here to listen to medical professionals instead of politicians when it comes to preventing its spread. T.D. Cox is principal at an international schoo...

Former Barton Publications reporter Carlie Porterfield left Texas to study international journalism at City, University of London, where she interned for Forbes magazine. She now works in New York City as a news reporter for Forbes. When I moved to New York City at the end of April, I was nervous ab...

Exsar Arguello working in his Buffalo, New York apartment. Former Barton Publications reporter talks about life in New York, where he currently works as a news producer for Spectrum News. As the COVID-19 pandemic takes hold of New York as the epicenter of the crisis, life in the Empire State has eer...

Buda native Mary Stone when  she was working as a nurse in  Canada in the 1980s. That we are in uncharted waters is beyond dispute. But there are those among us who have experienced some- one eerily similar to the COVID-19 pandemic in emergency rooms decades ago. One of them is Buda resident Mary St...

A Driftwood distillery shifted gears from liquor to hand sanitizer and has donated 20,000 bottles of it to the Hays County Sheriff’s Office and police departments in Austin, San Antonio and Houston, among others. Desert Door, known for its premium spirit that uses Texas sotol, has pivoted its produc...

By Anita Miller Residents in Blanco County a mile or so upstream of where the Kinder Morgans Permian Highway Pipeline (PHP) crossed the Blanco River are reporting brown tap water coming from their wells. One of them, who lives off FM 165 about a mile from the Chimney Valley Road turnoff in Blanco po...

AUSTIN ⎯ The Texas Workforce Commission ( TWC ) has launched a new automated virtual assistant to help Texans sign up for unemployment insurance ( UI ). The artificial intelligence-enabled chatbot can instantly answer many of the most common questions about the UI process. The program is expected to...

Harrell Funeral Home is prepared to care for families safely through these unprecedented times. The funeral home is quickly adapting and offering new services to help families receive the support they need from funeral directors, grief counselors and friends. Under the new shelter-in-place restricti...