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Tristan Fortner and his brother and sister Kyleigh and Hunter had been talking about Blanco needing a snow cone stand for a long time. It took them by surprise that they would be the ones to be Blanco’s newest and quite possibly youngest-owned business, Cardinal Cones.
Tristan, 18, a soon-to-be college freshman, needed money but with different camps and family vacations over the summer it proved difficult to commit to a boss.
Local business owner of Westcott Graphic Print, Marcy Westcott, is taking on a second job. A calling if you will, as a meditation teacher.
Westcott explains that meditation is a technique that settles your nervous system and trains your brain to become more focused, more engaged and responsive, and less reactive.
Westcott began meditation when she was asked by a friend to attend a meditation class.
Anyone who has been reading my column for very long probably already knows I have a real problem with exotics. Previously, on a trip to the Texas Coast and South Texas, I saw, again, the problems presented by many invasive plant species. Most people in the Edwards Plateau, and most of the rest of Texas for that matter, are aware of the exotic, invasive grass, King Ranch or KR Bluestem and it is a problem most all landowners have to deal with or just live with.
But in South Texas, two other ...
Madeleine Creed MacNeal Torres, beloved wife of Jorge Torres, passed away peacefully at home surrounded by family. Diagnosed with ALS (Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, also known as Lou Gehrig’s Disease) in 2016, Mado handled the challenges of the disease with courage, acceptance and humor.
In addition to her husband Jorge, Mado is survived by her parents Edward and Priscilla MacNeal, sister Catherine MacNeal, aunt Emilie Mattesich, children Megan Baker (Chad), Cassandra Schroeder (John Les ...
Anne Cowart Dirlam, 88, of Blanco passed away on Sunday, July 7, 2019, at her home in Blanco, Texas. Anne was born on Sept. 24, 1930 in Houston, Texas. She was preceded in death by her husband, Ray Dirlam, her parents, Ruth and Len Cowart, her sister Mary and brothers Gilbert and Curt.
Sedgwick Bryant “Bry” Loyd, II, of Blanco, Texas, passed away July 11, 2019 in San Antonio, Tx.
He was born Feb. 18, 1950 in Terre Haute, Indiana where he graduated from Wiley High School and went on to get his college degree in Fish and Wildlife Science at Texas A&M University in College Station, Texas, graduating in the Class of ‘72.
Bry was a member of the Texas A&M Corps of Cadets, was on the Fish Drill Team, a member of the Ross Volunteers and served on Corps Staff his senior y ...
