Gary P. Nunn, who has made a career out of playing Texas Country music, brought the crowds to Twin Sisters Dance Hall Saturday night. Folks came from as far away as Oklahoma, California, New Mexico, Oregon and Massachusetts to join the locals, and Texans from Dallas and Houston to dance the night away.
After 40 years in the Texas music world, Nunn has decided to retire.
Blanco Good Samaritan Center is ready to renovate. With the Emergency Services District No. 2’s move to a new building on Blanco Avenue, the Center will begin transforming that organization’s former quarters on Chandler into its new home. The move will reduce overcrowding and allow for expanded services.
Work will begin July 8 with an all-volunteer group under the able direction of Mike Rieken.
Juneteenth Celebration:
On Saturday, June 22, residence and guests of Blanco County gathered at Peyton Colony schoolhouse grounds to celebrate.
Juneteenth, Emancipation Day in Texas. On June 19, 1865 Union Major General Gordon Granger read General Order #3 to the people of Galveston:
“The people of Texas are informed that, in accordance with a proclamation from the Executive of the United States, all slaves are free.
CKC Farms, a family-owned Blanco micro dairy, has been producing goat cheese for 15 years that is distributed throughout the state. Founder Chrissy (Omo) Grundy and her brothers Kenny and Connor form the “CKC” is not only the name of the business but in day-to-day operations.
As a Blanco High School FFA student, Chrissy (Omo) Grundy raised two meat goats to show in the county Stock Show but says she didn’t realize that Ozzie and Cosmos were being raised for their meat.
Eddie Calzoncit, Jr. must have felt very comfortable playing on the field at Dell Diamond in Round Rock Saturday, June 15. In the Texas High School Baseball Coaches Association Class 2A-3A-4A All-Star Game he continued with the same hot bat he had there in the state tournament the previous week.
The State Championship game should be close – a contest between the best two teams in the state of Texas. This is exactly what the Conference AAA championship game between the Blanco Panthers and the Wall Hawks turned out to be – a nail-biter, a low-scoring game decided by a one run difference.
According to media outlets, Bill Wittliff, a celebrated writer, filmmaker and photographer who wrote the screenplay for the iconic 1985 television miniseries “Lonesome Dove” and co-founded a popular archive of Southwestern writers and other artists at Texas State University, died Sunday from a heart attack. He was 79.
Wittliff donated his materials from Lonesome Dove, which won seven Emmys, two Golden Globes and a Peabody Award, to the archive at Texas State.
On June 14, 1777, in order to establish an official flag for the new nation, the Continental Congress passed the first Flag Act: “Resolved, That the flag of the United States be made of thirteen stripes, alternate red and white; that the union be thirteen stars, white in a blue field, representing a new Constellation.”
“The Daughters of the American Revolution will collect flags all year long that are worn, torn or are in such condition that they
cannot be flown proudly, and on Vete ...
On the evening of Friday, May 31 hundreds of onlookers in a packed Panther Stadium watched the Blanco High School Class of 2019 cross the stage and receive their diplomas.
Amid a Texas sunset backdrop that lead into a warm and muggy evening, the Panther Band played the graduates to their seats to the tune of Pomp and Circumstance while the Board of Trustees watched from the stage.
Though graduating senior Joshua Neill was not in attendance after a major car accident that happened right af ...
It took three days, that included three road trips to the Jourdanton High School baseball stadium, sixteen innings, and a high school graduation mixed in the middle, for the Panthers to clinch the Region IV Conference 3A Championship against the Bishop Badgers. But the Panthers did just what needed to be done, at just the right time, to win the best-of-three series 2-0 and move themselves into the final four and the State Semifinals at Dell Diamond in Round Rock this week.
Game one of the s ...
