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Lydia White, right, was crowned the 2021 Blanco County Fair Queen Saturday night. Joining her on the court are, from left, Ema Price (first runner-up), Riley Birck (third runner-up) and Clare White (second runner-up).
The Blanco County Commissioners adopted a fire code at Tuesday morning’s meeting.
The fire code goes into effect Oct. 1 and governs unincorporated areas of the county. The code governs businesses, public buildings and multi-family residences, but does not govern individual housing.
Blanco County did not previously have a fire code in place.
After a challenging year, The Good Samaritan is up and going strong.
For those of you who do not know what we do, here is a short explanation. We are a non-profit thrift store and food pantry for Blanco County.
We take donations of clothing and household goods for the thrift store which are then sold onsite and used to buy groceries for the food pantry and provide special aid to the community.
We are a 100 percent volunteer organization.
Is Blanco County in the middle of a real estate boom? It seems that Blanco is just a happening place and that’s unlikely to change.
“When talking to other ‘old timers,’ this boom reminds us of the boom and subsequent bust in the 1980s; that was a tough one, but then we laugh and remind each other we’ve been saying the same thing for the past 10 years,” said Candy Cargill with Hill Country Real Estate in Blanco.
Cargill, who has been a Realtor in Blanco for 35 years, and other ...
Blanco County’s unemployment rate fell in July and the county continues to have the lowest unemployment rate in the nine-county Rural Capital Area region, the Texas Workforce Commission announced Friday.
The Blanco County unemployment rate fell to 3.7 percent last month, down from 4.1 percent in June.
The unemployment rate in the Rural Capital Area region fell to 4.3 percent in July, after climbing to 4.9 percent in June.
Blanco returns seven starters on defense and five on offense as it gets ready to kick off the 2021 season Friday night.
The Panthers, who went 8-4 a season ago and made it to the area round of the playoffs, start the 2021 campaign with a 7:30 p.m. game Friday at Davenport.
Blanco returns six players with varsity experience for the 2021 volleyball season.
Of the six returnees for the Lady Panthers this season are four returning starters in Emilee LaRue and Elin Kaiser at outside hitter, Jaycie Gloor at libero and Lily Porter at setter. However, setter is a new position for Porter in 2021.
“All of my returning players have been looking really strong,” said Blanco volleyball coach Jane Karnes, whose team finished 16-6 a year ago.
The Blanco girls cross country team returns four lettermen, including a regional qualifier, for the 2021 season.
Evelyn Trammell, a junior, led the Lady Panthers’ squad a season ago after finishing seventh at the district meet to qualify for regionals. She finished 48th overall at the regional meet at Corpus Christi.
Joining Trammell as returning lettermen are senior Valen Edwards along with juniors Laci Creswell and Riley Edmondson.
Since opening its season Aug. 10 with a 3-1 win against Burnet, the Blanco varsity volleyball team has played 12 additional contests in the past two weeks to tally a current 9-4 season record.
In the Wimberley tournament Aug. 13-14, the team went 2-3. Against Cedar Creek, the Lady Panthers won 25-15, 25-15.
