The May 12 meeting of the Blanco City Council was a long one. The meeting included two closed sessions and lasted approximately six hours before the final gavel closed it at midnight.
The first closed session of the meeting lasted approximately 50 minutes, and led to the reinstatement of a member of the Blanco Police Department.
The council voted 4-1, with Matt Lewis as the lone no vote, to reinstate police investigator Jay B.
Majestic Hills of Blanco, Texas, recently donated $5,000 to the food pantry at the Blanco Good Samaritan Center. This donation will help provide assistance to those affected by the coronavirus pandemic. Majestic Hills is associated with Lone Star Land Partners (LSLP). Pictured, from left, are Price Keever, vice president of LSLP, and Bert Dieringer, BGSC food pantry coordinator.
It’s not just home gardens that are thriving during the coronavirus shut-down. The gardening business is doing well as many families have started new family traditions of home gardening during the pandemic.
“There’s definitely expanded interest in home gardening,” said Pamela Arnosky, owner of Arnosky Family Farms in Blanco. “I think World War II was the last time people began to cultivate their backyard gardens this much.”
Arnosky said they’ve sold out of many varieties of ...
Mike Green has been a Blanco Planning and Zoning (P&Z) Commissioner for around three years and even held the chair position at one point.
He has lived in central Texas for the past 38 years and spent the last 18 years in Blanco. Green began college at Southwest Texas State in San Marcos (now known as Texas State) and completed his undergraduate degree at Texas Pan American University in Edinburg.
Some folks in Blanco have gone back to basics during the coronavirus shut-down, and nothing is more basic than plunging your hands into the Earth, planting seedlings, nurturing them, watching them grow…and eventually eating them as a healthful supper.
Some local families have used the unforeseen downtime to start home gardens.
In the Faris family garden, cilantro, bell peppers, tomatoes and zucchini squash are basking in the Texas sun, unconcerned about a worldwide pandemic.
“We dec ...
The Blanco County Commissioners Court on Tuesday approved several amendments to agreements with Kinder Morgan.
KM will now be in contact daily (excluding weekends) with Commissioners Tommy Weir and Paul Granberg in regards to project activity within Blanco County. County Judge Brett Bray will have a weekly conference call with Allen Fore, KM vice president for public relations, and/or another senior KM representative.
Allen Fore, vice president of public relations for Kinder Morgan, and Greg Neal, a consultant for Kinder Morgan presented, a check for $172,000 to Blanco County Emergency Services District No. 2 on May 6.
The check was part of the Blanco County Investment Agreement negotiated by Judge Brett Bray in November 2019 for eight entities within Blanco County, which would be most impacted by the increased population from Kinder Morgan workers, increased utilization of schools, and increased use of ...
The good news was negative.
Each of the 94 people who tested at the first mobile COVID-19 testing site in Blanco County came back with negative results, meaning they do not have the virus, the county’s emergency management reported last Friday.
The first mobile testing in the county was held May 2 in Johnson City.
As days go by, it’s always a blur, but bright things are ahead of us. Governor Greg Abbott says, ``Graduation outside are allowed.” Now personally, I’m not having hope for being able to graduate and walk the stage in front of my family and friends I grew up with.
Twelve years of hard work and dedication to one thing and one thing only -- the day you officially start your life as an adult on graduation day.
Members of the Blanco High School Class of 2020 will get to hear pomp and circumstance in person, after all.
Blanco ISD announced graduations plans Sunday which includes an in-person ceremony or ceremonies, depending on what is allowed by state leaders and health department officials. The district set plans for what it hopes to be able to do, along with two contingency plans.
The school district’s hope is to hold a traditional graduation ceremony on its originally scheduled date, May 29 ...
