After four months of research, a recommendation of a bond totaling $132 million was proposed to the Dripping Springs ISD board of trustees to consider for a possible May bond election. The DSISD bond steering committee presented its recommendation during a special meeting Jan. 29. The bond money wil...

Above: Rooster Springs Elementary teacher Molly Handley receives an Above and Beyond award from Dripping Springs ISD Vice President Barbara Stroud at the Jan. 22 board of trustees meeting. DSISD employees receiving Above and Beyond awards for January were the Dripping Springs Elementary behavior sup...

A final recommendation on what Dripping Springs ISD could place into a potential May bond package will wait another week. The DSISD bond steering committee requested more time to consider its final recommendation to the board of trustees. The committee aims to present its final recommendation at a s...

The filing period for school board candidates in Dripping Springs ISD begins Wednesday, Jan. 17, and continues through Friday, Feb. 16, 2018. DSISD’s seven Board members do not represent places; they are all “at-large” representatives. Trustees serve three-year terms. The current terms of trustees C...

Dripping Springs OKs 700-home PID A new 189-acre Dripping Springs housing development   was approved this year, which will include additions to the city’s roadways and wastewater management capacity. On Nov. 14, the Dripping Springs City Council unanimously approved the creation of the Heritage Publ...

At the Dec. 11 Dripping Springs ISD Board of Trustees meeting, six employees who are retiring in December were honored for their service to the district. They (left to right) include: • Kathy Alley, Special Services Department: 17 years DSISD/28 years in education • Diane Flaim, assistant superinten...

Significant changes may be underway in the conceptual plan for the Dripping Springs Town Center project approved by the Tax Increment Reinvestment Zone (TIRZ)  Board. On Dec. 4, the Dripping Springs Independent School District (DSISD) Superintendent Bruce Gearing said the district is developing an a...

This week the “Kids for Character” group of fifth-graders at Sycamore Springs Elementary held “Inclusion Week,” teaching younger students about disabilities. They planned activities that gave children the opportunity to experience what it might be like to have one of several disabilities: visual imp...

he iconic strains of holiday classics such as “O Little Town of Bethlehem” and “Jingle Bell Rock” fill a small room labeled “Orchestra” at Dripping Springs High. Inside are seven students, part of a before-school orchestra club, who make their stringed instruments sing in preparation for upcoming ho...

Dripping Springs High School students performed extremely well on Advanced Placement (AP) exams administered in the spring of 2017, according to a report from the College Board. Of the total exams taken by Dripping Springs High students, two-thirds of the tests received scores of 3, 4, or 5, which c...