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Due to our lack of fall and winter rains we are in a drought. In Wimberley the main source of tap water is the Trinity aquifer. Our limestone karst rocks beneath the soil have recharge areas where rain water seeps back into the underground pockets that make up our aquifer.

While he may be physically gone from this Earth after passing away a few years ago at the age of 97, the spirit of Jack Glover is alive and well through the Cowboy Museum at Pioneer Town on 7A Ranch in Wimberley.

Many of us moved to Wimberley because of its beauty. That includes flora, fauna, and water. All of these need our help and attention to thrive as Hays County continues to experience rapid growth.

Typical home builders are concerned about making sure everything is square, but Zach Ricks isn’t building typical homes.

The Gold Award is the highest possible achievement with the Girl Scouts of America, and it is now part of the growing tally of accomplishments for Wimberley High School senior Makenzie Haston. Gold Award recipients must provide a lasting solution to an issue in their community, so when it came time for Makenzie to choose a project to pursue for her Gold Award, she thought of the younger Texans that share her school district and her community.

The moment that George and Cheryl Lauterstein came over the big hill leading into Wimberley from the Highway 32 junction with Ranch Road 12, they simultaneously gasped, smiled, and knew they had found their new home. Balancing a sense of peace with building excitement, they quickly found a realtor who took them looking at sites. Standing in the back of the realtor’s pickup, they gazed at nature’s abundance and chose their hilltop site. The Lautersteins built a stately Santa Fe style home that could grace the cover of an architecture magazine, and was, in fact, featured in the 1989 Wimberley Civic Club’s annual Home Tour. In the process, builder Gary Brim became a lifelong friend of the couple.

More than 60 dancers came out for the Civic Club’s Sweetheart Dance Feb. 12 at the Wimberley Community Center. Al Dressen’s Super Swing Revue played three hours of Texas swing classics and ended the night on a high note playing Dale Evans’ Happy Trails to You and the Bonanza theme song as guests cheered them on.

The comedy play, CLUE: ON STAGE opens on the Wimberley Players stage February 18 and runs through March 13. From the iconic 1985 Paramount movie which was inspired by the classic Hasbro board game, CLUE is a hilarious farce-meets-murder mystery featuring many of WP’s well-loved actors. The tale begins at a remote mansion, where six mysterious guests assemble for an unusual dinner party with murder and blackmail on the menu. When their host turns up dead, they all become suspects. Led by the butler Wadsworth, Miss Scarlett, Professor Plum, Mrs. White, Mr. Green, Mrs. Peacock, and Colonel Mustard, all race to find the killer as the bodies stack up. CLUE is the comedy whodunit that will leave both cult-fans and newcomers in stitches as they try to figure out… WHO did it, WHERE, and with WHAT!

On Saturday, February 19, at 3:00 p.m., the Wimberley Community Center will be the venue for a lively, free concert by the Hill Country Community Band. The playlist features a sound spectrum of polkas and fugues composed by John Philip Sousa, Sergei Rachmaninov, Henry Mancini, Jaromir Weinberger, Johann Sebastian Bach, and Johann Strauss. A preview perusal of the concert’s program revealed the following information about the chosen compositions:

The lack of average annual rainfall in January does not bode well for this year’s spring wildflower season. In past years January brought Bush Primrose Jasmine flowers, Windflowers, Narcissus and Hyacinth buds or flowers. When we get rain these late winter beauties should appear.