by Chase Rogers The cities of Dripping Springs and Wimberley are holding municipal elections on May 2, with early voting April 20-28. In Dripping Springs, voters will be deciding on three positions: Places 2 and 4 and the city’s mayoral seat. Incumbents in places 2 and 4 are Wade King and John Kroll...

After a year of work, the controversial Short Term Rental (STR) Committee in Wimberley will conclude its services after city leaders Aug. 1 voted 3-2 to deny a one-year extension and workshop. Council members Gary Barchfeld and Craig Fore both cast dissenting votes. Conceived in August 2018, the com...

A heated debate over email privacy and access to other city officials’ accounts led to the discovery that Wimberley Mayor Susan Jaggers occasionally monitors city staff emails without their knowledge. On Aug. 1, Jaggers explained she wished to have access to Mayor Pro Tem Rebecca Minnick’s city emai...

Wastewater provider Aqua Texas was calling it quits in Wimberley, which would have been a major blow for Wimberley Mayor Susan Jaggers. But after a long meeting, the company is reconsidering working with the city as the third-party wastewater provider, which would potentially save the sewer project ...

In a split 3-2 vote earlier this month, Wimberley city leaders rejected holding a workshop with the Short Term Rental Committee (STR), ending any chance of it meeting again in the future. Mayor Pro Tem Rebecca Minnick, along with councilmembers Christine Byrne and Bo Bowman voted to deny the worksho...

A new resolution passed by the Wimberley city leaders reinstates the city administrator as the primary contact for matters relating to its wastewater project. The action repealed a previous resolution which labeled the city’s mayor and mayor pro tem, as well as the city administrator, as points of c...

The controversial Wimberley wastewater saga is now heading into the court system.  On May 17, Wimberley resident and former Mayor Steve Thurber filed a lawsuit in Hays County District Court against the city, alleging a potential quid pro quo, or favor, and Texas Open Meeting Act (TOMA) violations. T...

A lower than expected number of noncompliant short-term rentals (STRs) stunned Wimberley city leaders last week as they postponed installment of a fee funding software meant to find them. By a split 3-2 vote, Wimberley’s city council postponed implementing a proposed renewal fee for conditional use ...

A changing of the guard will take place on the Wimberley City Council dais as three candidates who ran on the same platform claimed victory Saturday, according to unofficial, final results. Rebecca Minnick, Christine Byrne and Bo Bowman won their respective seats by wide margins. All three ran simil...

Debate over Wimberley’s wastewater issues continued this week as parties on all sides squabbled about the location of proposed treatment facilities. While proponents of an Aqua Texas-operated wastewater facility worry that a city-owned plant would be built in Blue Hole Regional Park, those who back ...