KYLE — Council members may be required to wait a year between serving on the dais and being employed by the city, following a recommendation made at the Kyle Charter Review Commission April 28 meeting. The commission first began by approving changes to articles 10 and 11 that were recommended at the...

BUDA — When high school students ponder their fine arts credit, they may think of traditional options, such as art sculpture, band or choir, but Johnson High School teachers Tiffany Stratton and Amanda Gregory have a more interesting idea: floral design. Students often find themselves in the class b...

Doxa Coffee Roasters held its grand opening May 3 for its new location at 1710 N. FM 1626 in Buda. J.T. Silvils opened up Doxa Coffee Roasters with his co-owner Nick Shock in 2022 and has since expanded its Austin location to Buda. According to its website, its goal is to make coffee with excellence...

AUSTIN — In its 11th year for the University Interscholastic League (UIL) at the State Track and Field Meet — held May 1-3 in Austin — at the Mike Myers Track and Soccer Stadium was the Para Athlete competition in wheelchair racing and shotput. One of the participants was Dripping Springs High Schoo...

Above, Hays High School student Endia Stigall competes in the 5A girls triple jump competition at the University Interscholastic League (UIL) Track and Field State meet Friday, May 2, earning fifth place. She also placed sixth in the long jump competition.

HAYS COUNTY — A total of more than $1 billion in school bonds were approved across multiple Hays County school districts, following the May 3 election. According to the Hays County website, 10,458 of the 134,831 registered voters, or 7.76%, cast their vote in the May 3 election. Dripping Springs ISD...

Above, Wimberley ISD student-athlete Charlie Hanle reset his own school record in the boys pole vault by clearing 15-6.00 height, which earned him second place at the University Interscholastic League Track and Field State Meet Thursday, May 1. Altogether, WHS athletes competed in seven events at th...

WIMBERLEY  — Wimberley Lady Texan Charlotte Woodward pitched the entire game one of the University Interscholastic League (UIL) 4A D2 Area Championship Thursday, May 1, where the softball team came out with a 7-5 win against the Cuero High School Gobblers. Woodward pitched a great game and was suppo...

SAN ANTONIO  — The Dripping Springs High School softball team swept San Antonio's O’Connor High School Panthers in an Area playoff best-of-three game series, with a 3-2 win at Northside Field Thursday, May 1, and a 2-0 shutout win on the Lady Tigers’ home field. In the first game of the series, Sadi...

The St. Louis World’s Fair may have been the first time Ad and Plinky Toepperwein performed in public as husband and wife, but the couple from the Lone Star State wowed the matinee audience on May 13, 1904 with their trick-shot artistry. Born in Boerne during the post-Civil War occupation, Adolph To...