June 29, 2016 Issue
The bond reduction request for the Blanco woman facing two counts of injury to a child by omission was denied last week.
Llano-Burnet-Blanco District Attorney Sonny McAffee said this week that a judge on Friday denied the request for Jamie Petronella, 23, whose attorney argued that she did not pose a threat to the community and is not considered a flight risk.
Petronella and John C.
Pedernales Electric Cooperative voters re-elected District 5 Board Director James Oakley and elected Jim Powers, who ran unopposed, to serve as the new District 4 Director. Powers replaces former Director Chris Perry, who did not seek re-election.
Voters also approved an amendment affirming members the right to speak at any open meeting of the Board of Directors.
The capstone event of the City’s Spring/Summer 2016 Arts in the Park series will take place this Sunday evening on the Old Courthouse Square. The fabulous ”Little Beverly and the Shades,” a group of ‘silver hairs’ who play old-time 1950s and 60s music, will play and entertain at a street dance beginning at 6 p.m.
This will be the last edition of the Blanco County News that current editor, Casie Kruppa, produces.
Kruppa, 22, plans to leave the paper to travel. Her first trip planned is a cross-country road trip to New Hampshire with stops in Nashville, Virginia, and Boston along the way.
“Leaving has been a really hard decision for me,” Kruppa said.
The City’s wastewater plant is on its last legs. Its permit must be renewed in less than three years. In its present condition, it will not meet the future requirements of the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ). Either extensive repairs and upgrades will have to be done or a new plant must be constructed.
In the last few years there has been a great desire from local citizens throughout the land to embrace the full meaning of Patriotic holidays. For more than two centuries, untold numbers of Americans have answered the call to duty. These women and men in uniform gave their tomorrows for the ideals we value today---the ideals of freedom, justice, and democracy.
To redeem someone is to pay the required price in order to secure their release from the one holding them in bondage. When Adam sinned in the Garden of Eden, he sold out the human race, and we are all born under that sin and under the rulership of Satan.
I encourage to read Mt 7:13-29. Verse 22-23 says, “Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works? And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.” The Bible repeatedly reminds the church to beware of false Christs; false prophets; false teachers; false doctrine; etc (Mk 13:22-23, 2Pt 2:1-2).
“Fear and faith cannot exist in my heart at the same time. When we live by faith, trusting in the Lord moment by moment, fear has no room in my heart.” John Short-Released Prisoner from N. Korea
Storms in our lives come upon us quickly, at times. We wonder about how much hail, or wind, or water we will get in the pain we go through.
In the last few years there has been a great desire from local citizens throughout the land to embrace the full meaning of Patriotic holidays. For more than two centuries, untold numbers of Americans have answered the call to duty. These women and men in uniform gave their tomorrows for the ideals we value today---the ideals of freedom, justice, and democracy.