DRIPPING SPRINGS – Following a hearing Feb. 18, Dripping Springs City Council partially upheld a takings assessment March 4 related to the Hardy Tract. The tract — a 78-acre parcel of property proposed for the construction of approximately 70 residential lots — is located in the Dripping Springs cit...

WIMBERLEY — A future Blue Hole Nature Center is in the works in the city of Wimberley. Hays County has executed a diligence funding agreement with the city of Wimberley for the Blue Hole Nature Center, which is a project led by the Wimberley Parks and Recreation Department that will be dedicated to ...

DRIPPING SPRINGS – A three-car collision left a 79-year-old woman dead March 1. At approximately 6:45 p.m., the Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) responded to a three-vehicle crash on RM 12 in the parking lot of Mercer Hall in Dripping Springs. A 2017 Volvo was traveling southbound on RM 12, s...

DRIPPING SPRINGS — Plans to bring a large store to the city of Dripping Springs are moving forward, as the Dripping Springs Board of Adjustments (BOA) and Dripping Springs City Council approved the necessary requests and amendments last week. At its March 4 meeting, the BOA unanimously approved a va...

SAN MARCOS — CHRISTUS Health celebrated the opening of its new urgent care in San Marcos Thursday, March 6. Located at 1430 North IH-35, Suite 106, the new clinic will “see everything from bumps and scrapes, to flu and cold and aches and sprains. You name it, we see it,” said Director of Clinical Op...

KYLE — When 7-year-old Grady Shanks visited a Little Free Library for the first time, he was completely enamored with what they meant — helping others. So much so, that he knew he wanted to build one himself. Grady, a Cub Scout in Pack 812, recalled the first time he visited a little library during ...

WIMBERLEY — For more than a decade, bike riders across the nation have participated in the annual Ride to Defeat ALS. Now, for the first time, the event is headed to the Texas Hill Country. The ride is hosted by the ALS Association, a nonprofit organization dedicated to providing support for those d...

KYLE — The city of Kyle is launching a new non-emergency request and notification system called Kyle 3-1-1, where residents can easily share their day-to-day concerns with officials from the city. According to Joshua Chronley, the assistant director for administrative services for the city of Kyle, ...

DRIFTWOOD — Growing up in Driftwood, Market Coordinator Madison Shipp is familiar with the struggle of not having convenient places nearby to shop. So, to combat this, she is starting the first Hays City Market Days, which will begin March 29. “[I] always wanted some place for locals to be able to s...

KYLE — Hays CISD Superintendent Dr. Eric Wright announced Monday, Feb. 24, the selection of Yvette Soliz as the principal who will open the district’s 17th elementary school — Ramage Elementary — that is set to welcome its first students in August. The board of trustees approved the hiring selection...