April 15, 2015 Issue

Blanco County amended the overtime compensation police for law enforcement personnel during regular session of the commissioners' court on Tuesday, April 14 at the courthouse. "I think, at the heart of this, it is a decision about whether it is a good thing for employee morale and how it will work with the county budget,"

Area cancer survivors will unite Saturday, April 25 on the grounds of the Old Blanco County Courthouse to observe Relay For Life, according to Franciela Marin-Smith, who coordinates the event on the local level. The event begins at 6 p.m. and ends at 9. "Cancer is a scary word to hear under any kind of circumstances,"

After years of being flagged by the Texas Commission of Environmental Quality [TCEQ] for failure to meet drinking water quality standards, the City of Blanco has identified the repairs needed to rectify the problem. Yet before the city could move forward with the improvements, the engineering study had to be approved by the TCEQ before advertising for sealed bids.

Keep Blanco Beautiful (KBB), the City of Blanco and Blanco County stand ready to lend a hand in conjunction with the annual "Don't Mess with Texas Trash-Off" which will be held this Saturday, April 18. KBB's Retta Martin is urging local residents to break out the brooms and haul off that trash. "People who really have the need to get rid of those unneeded items to sign up on the list at Blanco City Hall,"

Saturday, April 18, is St. Michael's Episcopal Church Spring Rummage Sale. The Episcopal Church Women of St. Michael's Episcopal Church in Blanco began holding rummage sales once a year a decade ago. The yearly rummage sale event grew into a fall and spring sale four years ago. The St. Michael's flock has bragging rights about clean closets and garages because they are encouraged to donate anything that would try to gather dust. Christians are taught to minister to the least, the last and the l ...

On Saturday, April 18th Blanco County Aggie Moms will be selling tickets at Market Days for our Scholarship Fundraiser. Pico Ranch has generously donated a Brinkman 6 burner gas grill with rotisserie and side burner. A mitt and a set of barbeque tools are also included. Raffle tickets sell for $20 each, and the drawing for this grill will be held on April 21st.

After an exhaustive search, Blanco Independent School District (BISD) Board Trustees believe Casey Hollomon, 39, is the right person to fill the high school principal's vacancy. Hollomon comes to BISD from Wimberley, where he has served as the principal of Danforth Middle School for the last three years. He replaces former Blanco High School (BHS) principal Dr.

1Corinthians 3:1-3 says "And I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual (ethereal, heavenly, supernatural), but as unto carnal (pertaining to the flesh, bodily, temporal), even as unto babes in Christ. I have fed you with milk, and not with meat (solid food): for hitherto ye were not able to bear it, neither yet now are ye able.

Ezekiel 36:27 | "And I will put my spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and ye shall keep my judgments, and do them." Romans 8:1-9 "1 There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.