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The Wimberley Community Civic Club awarded grants and scholarships totaling $75,000 to 26 area non-profits and eight students last week.

It’s official. Fort Hood, named for a high-ranking Confederate officer in the Civil War, has been renamed Fort Cavazos, in honor of native Texan Richard E. Cavazos, the country’s first Hispanic four-star general.

If you grew up anywhere in the south, you probably spent many early summer evenings as I did.

Despite early morning rain clouds, the seventh annual Blanco River Songwriter Festival went off without a hitch, boasting a well-curated list of performers Nine musical acts took the stage in the historic Fischer Hall, an expansive wood building built at the turn of last century by a master carpenter from New Braunfels. According to Fischer historian Lewis Smith, Al Kloepper was known for crafting strong and graceful arches which continue to distinguish the hall’s vaulted ceiling. Spacious with wood floors and large barntype windows, the building was a fitting partner for the event’s acoustics. More than one person compared the building to the inside of a guitar.

The Wimberley Rotary Club has once again handed out its annual scholarships, this time to recipients Trinity Rivera and Thomas Watson.

A resident at Alexis Pointe Senior Living in Wimberley, Helen Griffith, signed up with the community pen pal club back when COVID restrictions were still in place in 2020. Little did she know she would be meeting a lifelong friend.

The Kyle Police Department arrested and charged two people with various drug charges after fentanyl and other narcotics were found in a residence in the presence of two young children, police said.

Hays County to discuss Darden Hill improvements

Riffs, Roams and Raves:

A spring lunch and salon concert was held late last month at the home of Marshall Jennings at O’Neill Ranch Estates in Hays County.