Every chance they get, military veterans Liza and Carl Struck display an American flag outside their Blanco home. Their family’s custom means even more when they raise the flag for Independence Day.
“The flag is very special and personal to me, as it is to many veterans,” said Liza, a retired
colonel who served in the U.S.
Leo Osterhout has served America in two wars, and then began a successful business that spanned over six decades. Leo’s most important legacy, however, is his family that follows him.
Leo joined the Navy in January 1942, soon after the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor. Pearl Harbor had a big impact on him, and because of it, Leo decided to enlist in the Navy so that he could choose his branch of service and hopefully avoid the draft.
At almost 99 years of age, Leo was the oldest Blanco ve ...
The faded photograph taken in Saudi Arabia in 1991 captures a smiling young woman, wearing a combat helmet and holding an M16 assault rifle.
“That was Hope,” said Maria Uballe Nunn, who recently reflected on her six years of service as an Army Reservist. She’s seated at a conference table at Guardian Title Inc., where she has worked an escrow officer since 2005.
On June 29, Blanco’s Swiss Lodge motel became the first recipient of night sky friendly outdoor lighting fixtures paid for with Hotel Occupancy Tax (HOT) funds.
The 29 fixtures purchased for the motel were Ellicott Portfolio galvanized, gooseneck wall lanterns, approved as “Good Neighbor Lighting” by the International Dark Sky Association.
Thanks to a lot of hard work done in the last legislative session, Blanco, Johnson City and Dripping Springs received legal authorization to spen ...
Blanco County COVID-19 cases are mirroring trends seen recently across the state and nationally, including an increase in coronavirus cases among a younger demographic.
“For confirmed cases from March through May, the average age was 61.5,” said Ben Oakley, Blanco County infectious disease control officer. Oakley is the EMS Chief for Blanco County ESD 2.
“My closets are filling with donations. Why isn’t Good Sam open yet?” This is a call or question heard daily at Blanco Good Samaritan Center.
The answer is straightforward. The Board of Blanco Good Samaritan Center monitors both COVID-19 statistics in Texas and the opinions of its volunteers about safely returning to work.
At its last monthly review on June 17, the center’s board determined that once again neither indicator supported a safe opening of the center for business as us ...
One of the longest ongoing events in Blanco County will see a hiatus of at least one year.
The Blanco County Fair and Rodeo Association board announced Saturday that the annual county fair and rodeo will be canceled for 2020. It was to be the event’s 90th year.
The board cited health and safety concerns, along with current regulations, as reasons to cancel the county fair and rodeo this year.
Blanco County has the lowest unemployment rate in the nine-county Rural Capital Area region, according to information released Friday by the Texas Workforce Commission.
The county’s unemployment rate was 6.1 percent for May 2020. The overall rate in the region for May was 10.6 percent, down from 11.5 percent in April.
The newly appointed Blanco County election administrator has resigned his position.
The county’s election commission accepted the resignation of Robert Sense at the June 18 commission meeting. Sense was hired as election commissioner last month, but was not set to start the position until July.
The county has struggled to fill the position since the previous administrator, Oscar Villarreal, left the job late last fall.
Blanco ISD has made several changes to its 2020-21 school calendar with COVID-19 in mind.
Hoping to avoid any unknown impacts that forced major changes to school districts in the spring, Blanco ISD has built in 12 days in a revised school calendar that can be used for the impacts of COVID-19, if they are needed.
“We do not know how COVID-19 will impact us next year, but this calendar is a way to be prepared,” said Clay Rosenbaum, BISD superintendent, on the school’s website.
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