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Dripping Springs ISD is excited to kick off strategic planning to chart the course for the district for the next five years. The initiative will be a community-based process that will build on the district’s vision and mission; align district goals; address community needs; and promote student outcomes and college and workforce readiness.

Help the people, pets of Hays County

The city of Dripping Springs will be naming their new park the Dorian Kweller Skate Park. The name memorializes 16-year-old Dripping Springs High School student Dorian Kweller, who died in a car accident in February of this year. He and his family moved to Dripping Springs in 2018 where he attended the Skybridge Academy, now known as The Appamada School, and then later Dripping Springs High School. He was an avid skateboarder and heavily involved in the Dripping Springs Skate Club, as well as an integral member of the Dripping Springs High School music program. He was an emerging musician who performed under the stage name “ZEV,” and was scheduled to make his live debut at South by Southwest music festival in Austin in March, a month after he suffered his fatal accident. Six hours before his death, Volatile Skateboards had offered him a sponsorship deal.

Hays County Commissioners Court voted unanimously to create a Veterans Commission to support and promote veterans needs at their regularly scheduled meeting Tuesday. The court heard a presentation on the veterans commis-Friday sion from Hays County Veterans Services Officer Jude Prather in which he discussed the need to facilitate better communication among various veteran groups and formalize the process by which roads are named after fallen soldiers.

Goats strutting their stuff on the runway in “haute couture” came to Dripping Springs this weekend at the Dripping Springs Ranch Park and Event Center. The Goat Couture runway show showcased fashions worn by goats, some of them reluctantly, in seven categories.

County updating floodplain maps, seeking public input

More than 90 Dripping Springs High School juniors and seniors have earned academic honors from the College Board National Recognition Program for their performance on the PSAT/ NMSQT, PSAT™ 10, and/or AP Exams.

State’s wildfire declaration now includes 216 counties total

Editor's Note: The Texas Hill Country Conservation Network has created The Hill Country Land', Water; Sky and Natural Infrastructure Plan to protect natural resources in this area. This conservation series seeks to illuminate aspects of the plan, as well as other resource protection plans, looking at best management practices. This is the third part in the series.

For a second time, the Sycamore Springs Middle School PTA has earned a National PTA School of Excellence distinction.

With an influx of people moving to the area from Austin to San Antonio, locals are concerned with saving green spaces for various reasons ranging from the minimization of impervious cover — to encourage aquifer recharge — to an increase in recreational spaces for the public.

September 7