Head to the Texas Hill Country this month and experience the wineries, breweries and distilleries on the Dripping with Taste Passport Trail. The Dripping with Taste Passport is a self-guided event taking place this month in the scenic Dripping Springs area. For $25 per person, enjoy a month-long, bo...

Staff Report As construction of the Kinder Morgan Permian Highway Pipeline progresses across the Texas Hill Country, the Hays Trinity Groundwater District is urging the owners of water wells to register them. Construction on the 430-mile, 42-inch natural gas pipeline is currently halted near Chimney...

Walnut Springs Elementary Principal Melinda Gardner is among 62 school leaders from across Texas who have been selected as educators to attend summer institutes at the Principals’ Center at the Harvard Graduate School of Education sponsored by the Raise Your Hand Texas Foundation, a non-profit organ...

What Mountain City lacks in population it is making up for in participation — regarding Census 2020 at least. The tiny municipality (population 780 in 2018) leads Hays County in terms of participation in the Constitutionally-mandated count of everyone living in the U.S. According to the most recent ...

Staff Report Rotary Club of Dripping Springs’ Don McGraw presents The Friends Foundation President Kathy Carriker a check for $1,000.00 in support of Our Daily Bread™, a program providing meals to local area elderly residents. “We’re more than happy to help such a giving organization and look forwar...

Worldwide, populations grieved the same loss at different times. China was the first to experience this loss, then Italy and Europe, and more countries along with the U.S. followed suit; not one country was left unscathed. The coronavirus made everyone grieve the loss of our old lives. Some lost the...

Contact tracing, a method that helps track and control the spread of infection, is slipping out of Hays County’s grip. With new cases spiking, limited testing, people not participating in contact tracing and backed up labs, the coronavirus is rapidly spreading. The Hays County Health Department said...

Dripping Springs resident Nathan Kaspar knows his way around the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). “I grew up around it,” says Kaspar, whose mother’s sister was born blind. He’s also a disabled veteran of the Navy with 24 years service, and has DV designated license plates, so he’s equally fami...

By Megan Wehring Hand washing, sanitizing and disinfecting. It’s become the new normal. What happens when the new normal causes skin issues? To prevent transmission of the coronavirus, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommends washing hands with soap and water for at least 20 secon...

The Central Texas Food Bank in partnership with the city of Kyle is hosting two mass food distribution events on Saturday, July 11 and Thursday, Aug. 13 from 8-11 a.m. at the Smile Direct Facility, 300 Vista Ridge Dr. — across from the Home Depot. Central Texas residents facing food insecurity can d...