Portions of Stagecoach Road and Opal Lane will be closed Thursday during alternating times between 10 a.m. and 1 p.m. as Kyle Public Works crews begin trenching activities for a new 12-inch water line, according to a city press release. Stagecoach will be trenched first and prepared for reopening as...

Hays County authorities are warning of a reported phone scam that has been targeting area residents, primarily senior citizens. The scam involves someone claiming to be a Hays County Sheriff's Office employee who also uses a number from the local 512 area code, according to a HCSO press release. The...

here are 14,321 Dollar General stores in America. It’s a chain that many shoppers have never heard of, yet it has more stores than Starbucks. According to the Wall Street Journal , the Dollar General company is worth $22 billion – far more than the nation’s largest grocery chain, Kroger, which has f...

David Walden Greenlee, 83, passed away at his home in Buda, Texas surrounded by his family on November 4, 2017. David was born June 26, 1934, in Mercedes, Texas to Hellen Glasscock Greenlee and Ralph Gillespie Greenlee, Sr.   David spent most of his childhood years in Austin and Temple, Texas. He wa...

No one was injured after two men robbed a Dripping Springs jewelry store at gunpoint Saturday morning. Authorities are now searching for the suspects who were caught on surveillance camera during the course of the robbery. According to a Hays County press release, authorities received a call of an a...

A Hays High senior was arrested on campus Friday after he was suspected of breaking into a vehicle in the Live Oak Academy parking lot, according to a letter from principal David Pierce to parents. The student, identified as a 17-year-old male senior, was arrested by Hays County Sheriff's Office sch...

The Dripping Springs High Tiger band punched its ticket to the UIL state marching contest in San Antonio by virtue of placing first at the Area D Marching Competition Oct. 28. The Tigers’ finish advances them to state, which will be held Nov. 8 at the Alamodome. Dripping Springs is scheduled to perf...

ountain City residents tend to come and stay. Gathering this past weekend with three other Live Oak Drive cul-de-sac households, we marveled that the shortest residency was The Kiernan’s, with “only” 20 years. The Polley’s are original owners. Lynn Cobb (and Frances) came in 1990. RonTom and I arriv...

hree years ago, South African natives Nigel and Jacqueline Hornsby found their little slice of heaven. Some saw their parcel of land, located near the Hays and Caldwell county lines, as a place where drug dealers once lived in a home years before. For the Hornsbys, the land was a way for them to bui...