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Man convicted for threats on Fort Hood STAFF REPORT A federal jury in Waco Sept. 19 convicted a Dripping Springs man for allegedly making threats to kill individuals at Fort Hood in February, said United States Attorney Richard L. Durbin, Jr., and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Special Agent in Charge Christopher Combs, San Antonio Division in a statement. Jurors found Thomas
Anthony Chestnut, Jr., 29, of Dripping Springs, guilty of one count of threatening to assault or murder a uniformed service member and one count of interstate communications with threat to injure. Chestnut, who has remained in federal custody since being arrested by FBI agents on Feb. 24, faces up to ten years in federal prison on
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County approves $371 million FY 2018 budget BY KATERINA BARTON Allocation of funds for projects that are a part of Hays County’s 2016 bond measure led officials to approve a $371 million Fiscal Year 2018 budget Sept. 19. While Hays County will be spending more money, officials also approved a slight decrease in the county’s ad valorem tax rate. Hays County Commissioners approved a property tax rate of .4450 per $100 valuation for FY 18. The rate is a decrease from FY 17, where the rate was .4600 per $100 valuation. Mark Jones, Hays County Pct. 2 commissioner, says this is the lowest tax rate the county has had in 21 years. Jones said county officials lowered the rate by one and a half cents, and were “about nine-tenths of a cent” from the effective rate of .4465. “I feel like we did a really good job of managing this year’s budget and trying to be as conservative as we could,” Jones said. Hays County’s budget increase comes mostly from voter-approved bonds.
“I feel like we did a really good job of managing this year’s budget and trying to be as conservative as we could.” –Mark Jones, Hays County commissioner
The county is planning to allot $100 million for public safety facilities, $25 million for road improvement bonds and $38 million for the final issue of pass-through road bonds. The budget is expected to receive over $4.4 million in revenue from property taxes, which constitutes a 6.8 percent increase from last year’s budget. Over $3.3 million will come from new properties added to the tax roll. Some of the highlights in the budget include $2.9 million for 43 new full time positions and personnel changes with-
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PHOTOS BY MARIA GARDNER
Pioneer Day at the Pound House Howard Griffin, dancer with Great Promise for American Indians, demonstrates a traditional dance by the Heritage Tree at this past weekend’s Pioneer Day at Dr. Pound’s Farmstead in Dripping Springs. Pioneer Day is to give visitors an educational experience of what life was like in the mid-1800s. Right, children participate in one of the ten craft stations where a student volunteer ties string around a corn husk doll.
OT pay OK’d for first responders BY KATERINA BARTON Hays County Commissioners Sept. 12 approved overtime pay for Hays County emergency staff that worked during Hurricane Harvey in August. Kharley Smith, director of emergency management and emergency management coordinator of the Office of Emergency Services, asked for $5,786 for overtime hours for emergency staff for events during Hurricane Harvey. Overtime hours included compensation for an emergency op-
Overtime hours included compensation for an emergency operations center (EOC), which was opened on Aug. 26 during Hurricane Harvey. erations center (EOC), which was opened on Aug. 26 during Hurricane Harvey. The EOC, which is a joint operations center, was opened for disaster preparedness and responses needed throughout the county and city of San Marcos. Expenses came from food emergency work-
ers purchased while on duty and expenses for a hotel room in order to let workers rest on a four-hour rotation. The EOC was deactivated on Aug. 28. Smith asked for $1,398 for food purchased for EOC staff and $345 for a hotel room for two nights where staff rested on a
things. Join us for lunch and enjoy the program. $20 reservations required by October 13. For more information/ reservations: womenofds@gmail.com
on September 30 and October 1 from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Fine original artwork will include digital, fiber, glass, jewelry, mixed media, paintings, photography, printmaking, and woodwork from all over Texas, California, Colorado, New Mexico, Oklahoma and South Dakota. The SHOW will also feature live music. Musicians on stage include Jon Parmentier, Homer Whisenant, Kaitlynn Curtner, Meagan Tubb, April Moyer Hall and more. Guest admission and parking to the event is free. For more information about the event, please visitwww. TheShowSpotlight.com.
rotation during Hurricane Harvey. “We’ve had minimal need for response overnight, mostly to report power outages and downed trees, and can resume our normal operations out of our respective offices,” Smith said in a press release on the Hays County website. Smith added Hays County emergency officials came together to respond “quickly and efficiently to what could have been a much worse weather situation for us.”
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LAGNIAPPE Friends Foundation BBQ
On Oct. 5, join the Dripping Springs Friends Foundation as it hosts its 24th annual BBQ fundraiser at Pecan Grove, formerly known as the Salt Lick Pavillion. The event, which will go from 5 p.m. to 10 p.m., will have guests participate in a silent and live auction, as well as enjoy the music of the Hot Texas Swing Band. The fundraiser helps provide services to the community and seniors in the greater Dripping Springs area. All monies raised go to
help support the Friends Foundation’s programs. The fundraiser also assists low-income seniors with financial assistance, as well as fund special events at Hill Country Care and its residents. Find more information at thefriendsfoundation.org.
Women’s Club meeting
The Dripping Springs Women’s Club holds its monthly meeting at The Terrace Club at 11:30 am on Wednesday, October 18. Speaker is Joe Urbach, Author, speaking on The Health Benefits of Coffee, Wine, Chocolate and Beer, among other
The Show
More than 50 juried artists will be featured at The SHOW of Dripping Springs, a two-day fine art event organized by The Artists Alliance of the Hill Country and co-sponsored by the City of Dripping Springs. Artists will display their work in the 12,000-square foot airconditioned exhibition hall at Dripping Springs Ranch Park
‘Everything I Know I Learned From Rock Stars’ The Dripping Springs Community Library will host an evening with Bill Page Sept. 28 from 6-7:30 p.m. Page’s book “Everything I Know I Learned From Rock Stars” reveals decades of music reporting and candid conversations with 50 influential artists including Roy Orbison, Queen, Electric Light Orchestra, Grace Slick, Fleetwood Mac,
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that he planned to shoot soldiers at Fort Hood.  “Threats of this nature are taken seriously,� stated United States Attorney Richard L. Durbin, Jr. The FBI together with the U.S. Army Military Police Investigations at Fort Hood and the Hays County Sheriff’s Office conducted this investigation. Special Assistant U.S. Attorney/Active Duty U.S. Army Major Benjamin Hogan and Assistant U.S. Attorney Chris Blanton are prosecuting this case on behalf of the government.
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the threaten-to-assault charge and up to five years in federal prison on the threatening- communications charge. Sentencing is scheduled for Dec. 1 before U.S. District Judge Robert Pitman in Waco. Testimony during the two-day trial revealed that on Feb. 22, Chestnut made verbal threats when he called and spoke with a sergeant at the U.S. Army 1st Calvary Division at Fort Hood. Chestnut threatened to go to Fort Hood, kill the sergeant, take hos-
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Empty Bowls readies for larger venue for 20th event STAFF REPORT
Started as a small soup fundraising event with a handful of volunteers, Dripping Springs area residents will soon come out in full force Oct. 29 for the 20th annual Empty Bowls Project. Because of a rapidly growing region and an outpouring of community support to assist Dripping Springs Helping Hands, Inc., the event will be held this year at a much bigger venue than it was in years past. Dripping Springs Ranch Park and Event Center will be where participants will raise money to feed Dripping Springs’ hungry while enjoying gourmet soups, breads, and live music. “It is a great problem to have so many folks wanting to help their neighbors in need that we had to move our event to a larger facility,” Helping Hands volunteer and event organizer Kristi Greene said. “At Dripping Springs Ranch Park and Event Center, we will have more space and parking to meet the requirements of our family-friendly event and of course, the event will be able to go on rain or shine.” For a donation of $25 per person, attendees can choose a ceramic bowl from more than 1,500 unique creations in all sizes, shapes and colors designed by dozens of Hill
“It is a great problem to have so many folks wanting to help their neighbors in need that we had to move our event to a larger facility.” – Kristi Greene, Helping Hands volunteer and event organizer
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Linda Kleman, of Dripping Springs, holds a bowl that says “Have a Nice Day” during the 2016 Empty Bowls project event in downtown Dripping Springs. This year’s event will move to the Dripping Springs Ranch Park Event Center.
Country potters, The Art Garage, as well as local schools. Each person can fill a bowl with a serving of the tastiest soups from more than 30 of the finest restaurants in Austin and Dripping Springs. Helping Hands is a nonprofit organization
that has been serving North Hays County for more than 31 years. The organization provides a food pantry for the region and a framework of compassionate care designed to meet neighbors in their time of need, regardless of their age, creed or ethnic origin.
Helping Hands operates with an all-volunteer board and more than 100 people who give their time to help others. In 2016, the organization spent $28,500 to buy food for families. They also provided $35,600 in financial assistance for housing, utilities, transportation, school supplies and their holiday gift program for kids. Greene says the Empty Bowls Project raises more than 60 percent of the Helping Hands annual budget. “The success of this fundraiser is so important to our organization being able to assist clients when they have nowhere else to turn to for help,” Greene said.
Friends helping Texas friends at annual Crossword BBQ fundraiser
STAFF REPORT The Friends Foundation 24th Annual BBQ at the Salt Lick Pavilion will be held on Oct. 5 from 5-10 p.m. This fundraising event will be an evening of western swing music, Salt Lick BBQ buffet, a live and silent auction, and an opportunity to support the Friends Foundation’s programs benefiting the elderly in the greater Dripping Springs area. The Salt Lick Pavilion gates open at 5 p.m. Register for bidding and allow ample time to preview the silent and live auction items before the BBQ buffet, which is served from 6-8 p.m. Parking is free and handicap parking is available. Tickets, available at the door, for the BBQ buffet are $25, children 6 and under eat free. Before heading to the buffet, guests may enjoy snacks and complimentary product samples from Dripping Springs Vodka, Thirsty Planet Brewery, Duchman Family Winery and Moonshine Sweet Tea. The award-winning Hot Texas Swing Band will be playing live western swing music from the soon to be released “Off The Beaten Trail,” as well as old-time favorites during the event. KVET 98.1’s Mr. Bama Brown will emcee the evening’s festivities. Professional benefit auctioneer and volunteer George L. Vaught will engage and entertain the audience during the live auction. Purchase a wristband for a fun game of “Heads or Tails” before the live auction begins with the winner receiving a grand prize. Some of the live-auction items include two round-trip tickets on Southwest Airlines, a full-day wine tour for four with tastings chauffeured by Discover Texas Wine
Tours, a one night stay for four at Asante Lodging and Events with a private tour, meals and tastings at Treaty Oak Distillery. Other auction items include having your street name and address hand crafted and carved on native limestone with a stone base from Carved Stone. Also in the live auction will be a Winter Getaway Package at Hill Country Casitas with a two-night stay for four and private wine tour and tastings at Hawk’s Shadow Winery, and a $100 gift certificate for lunch or dinner at Homespun Kitchen and Bar; a 100 percent Alpaca rug, a framed historical private collection of locally found arrowheads and artifacts and more. The Friends Foundation is a 501(c)(3) non-profit all-volunteer organization. All monies raised through sponsorships, auctions, and BBQ ticket sales will help to finance their programs and services, which include Our Daily Bread, a hot home meal delivery program, which now has served more than 40,000 meals to the homebound in the greater Dripping Springs area. Monies also go toward the Philips Lifeline MedAlert program providing emergency alert devices for summoning medical assistance, and other programs beneficial to the elderly. The Friends Foundation also provides financial assistance for the necessities of life to the elderly in times of dire need. The organization has provided funds for rent, utility bills, medical expenses such as dental, hearing, vision, medications, and other quality of life needs for low-income seniors in the community. For more information about this fundraiser and The Friends Foundation’s programs visit www.thefriendsfoundation.org or call (512) 592 1345.
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Education Dripping Springs ISD welcomes Sycamore Springs to the family Over 300 people Sept. 21 celebrated the official ribbon cutting of Dripping Springs ISD’s first new campuses in roughly a decade. District officials cut the ribbon for Sycamore Springs Elementary and Middle schools, which are housed under one roof at a campus along Sawyer Ranch Road. Speaking during the event was Superintendent Bruce Gearing, SSE Principal Kristen Ray and SSM Principal Dan Diehl. See more photos from the event online at HaysNewsDispatch.com. Just follow the Photos link.
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Dripping Spring students earn national honors JOURNALISM STUDENT HONORED FOR OPINION PIECE A Dripping Springs High senior earned a prestigious award for his opinion piece on the effect global warming could have on our planet. Jaxon Thornton, who is the editor-in-chief of “MyDSHS News,” the school’s student newspaper, won a Gold Circle Certificate of Merit from the Columbia Scholastic Press Association for his opinion piece, “Don’t Let Greed Run our Planet.” The piece originally ran in the February 2017
edition of “MyDSHS.” The category Thornton was honored for is “Personal Opinion: Off-Campus Issues.” Jaxson’s piece shared and supported THORNTON his position that a powerful few with interests in the fossil fuel and oil industries continue to hold back necessary progress in meeting the challenge of climate change that will soon reach the point of
no return. His call to action was that we ensure “our collective legacy does not go down in the history books as one of greed and disaster.” This year, the Columbia Scholastic Press Association 34th Gold Circle Awards program attracted 4,166 yearbook and digital media entries, as well as 7,093 print news and magazine entries. These entries were produced by students at colleges, universities, and secondary schools through the United States and abroad from June 2016 to June 2017.
Student journalists working on these print or electronic media submitted entries in 42 yearbook categories and 50 digital media categories. Judges cited a total of 1,080 winners for either First, Second or Third Place, or for Certificates of Merit for those deemed worthy of honorable mention in a category.
18 TIGERS HONORED FOR NATIONAL MERIT PROGRAM Dripping Springs High School Principal Joe Burns announced
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18 students have been recognized as “Commended” in the 2018 National Merit Program. In addition, three were selected as National Merit Semifinalists, as announced recently. To be chosen as Commended Scholar, students must have placed among the top five percent of more than 1.5 million students nationally who took the PSAT/National Merit Scholars Qualifying Test (NMSQT). Approximately 34,000 Commended Scholars are being recognized nationwide.
Tigers take down Antlers 40-7
Meredith Anderson Emily Barefield Nikhil Clayton Emily Curran Logan Dundon Ravelle Dundon Aili Edwards Ashley Fitzpatrick David Garcia Gracie Griffin Abagail Martin Eli McIntire-Gavlick Mathew McKiddie William Nix Sean O’Connor Christopher Schaefer Mark Tressler Cameron Wilson
Lady Tigers net five set win over Tivy Antlers
BY MOSES LEOS III A big smile showed on the face of Dripping Springs Tigers senior Trevor Greenman when he tried to recall a similar experience to his performance in Friday’s 40-7 win over the Kerrvile Tivy Antlers. Prior to his breakout 446 total yard, six touchdown performance Friday, Greenman said the most touchdowns he ever scored was seven in a junior varsity game. But when the lights shone bright and the stakes were high, Greenman was happy he could play a role in delivering a key district opening win. “It feels better to score six touchdowns on Friday than seven on Thursday,” Greenman said. Dripping Springs (4-0, 1-0) entered its district opener with plans to improve on a close non-district win over Hays a week previous, Greenman said. Greenman and the Tigers stayed true to their
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STAFF REPORT With its back against the wall Friday, the Dripping Springs Tigers stepped up in the clutch to secure a critical 2515, 25-23, 25-16, 18-25, 15-12 win over the Kerrville Tivy Antlers at Tiger Gym. With the thrilling five set victory, Dripping Springs (24-12) stays unbeaten in 26-5A play as they hit the halfway point in the district schedule. The Tigers are also climbing up the Texas Girls Coaches’ Association rankings. Dripping Springs is currently ranked No. 15 in the Class 5A state poll. Dripping Springs senior Graceyn Tippens finished with a matchhigh 16 kills, while
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Tivy’s Brock Billieter (left) can only watch as Dripping Springs’ Parker Alford sprints to the goal line on a 52 yard touchdown pass from quarterback Trevor Greenman for a 6-0 lead after the PAT failed.
words when they leapt out to a 20-0 lead over Tivy midway through the second quarter. The bar-
rage was highlighted by 50-plus yard touchdown passes to wide receivers Parker Alford and Curtis
Raymond. Galen Zimmerman,
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With a 27-7 halftime lead, Dripping Springs’ offense continued its onslaught by scoring two more touchdowns, capped off with a 27-yard touchdown run by Greenman. But work will still need to be done for Dripping Springs, even as the team cracked the Associated Press Class 5A Texas state rankings at no. 10 this week, which is the first time it’s ever happened in school history. Rectifying several issues, including three fumbles in the game, will be the focus as they ready for a road tilt against Seguin. “It’s about being 1-0 every week. But there are also four other teams in district who are also 1-0,” Zimmerman said. “We want to keep ourselves in the top half in district. We’re playing now for a district championship and a shot at Week 11.”
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