The Blanco baseball team continued their playoff path with a Regional Semi-final win against the Banquete Bulldogs this past weekend. In the best two-of-three series Blanco won 2-0. Playing at the Jourdanton High School baseball field Friday, May 24, Blanco run-ruled the Bulldogs 12-2 in six innings. Saturday, May 25 the Panthers won 12-3.
AJ Briscoe pitched the distance Friday, going six innings, striking out seven and scattering five hits.
You couldn’t blame the guests at Sunday’s Bamberger Ranch Preserve Annual Family Picnic if they didn’t believe host J. David Bamberger when he told them that there was no water on the 5,500-acre Selah property when he purchased it in 1969. After all, the 2.9-mile drive from the main gate to The Center where they were standing took them over or through five crystal clear streams and along the shores of Madrone Lake.
They likely didn’t believe him either when he said he bought the pla ...
Is it the truth? Is it fair to all concerned? Will it build good will and better friendships? Will it be beneficial to all concerned?
Those four questions make up the moral code Rotarians all around world use as a test for what they think, do and say in their personal and business relationships, which is called the Four-Way Test.
Fifty Blanco County’s Rotarians read the test aloud for the first time Tuesday, April 30, 2019, as members of the new Blanco County Rotary Club at its Charter ...
The PAWS Shelter of Central Texas has opened its second campus near the Blanco County line at 2965 FM 165.
The no-kill shelter has operated in Kyle for 33 years and its Building Committee has been raising funds for its second operation for years, according to Executive Director Melody Hilburn. PAWS is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization.
Don Casey of Cypress Mill will be honored for outstanding contributions to the Texas State Soil and Water Conservation program at a Conservation Awards Banquet for Region 2 on May 7, 201 in Wall.
Area 2 consists of 44 districts in the Texas Hill Country, and west to El Paso. There are five regions in the state.
Blanco was the chosen venue of a group of Peace Corps volunteers (PCVs) who have reunited in various locations in North and South America over the past five decades.
Local resident Barney Cline convinced the group, many of who had never been to Texas, to give Blanco the honors for their reunion.
The week of April 14-20, 2019, is National Public Safety Telecommunicators Appreciation week, also known as Dispatcher Appreciation Week.
9-1-1 is the number that has been drilled into our minds from a young age, the number you call in case of an emergency. As we get older, we consider ourselves fortunate if we have never had to dial it.
For those of us who have had to call 9-1-1, we’ve heard the voice on the other end of the line, the calm in the chaos; the voice that sends help when w ...
NFPA REPORT – U.S. FIRE DEPARTMENT PROFILE Key findings
NFPA estimates there were approximately 1,160,450 local firefighters in the U.S. in 2015. Of the total number of firefighters 345,600 (30%) were career firefighters and 814,850 (70%) were volunteer firefighters. 77% of firefighters in Texas are volunteer firefighters.
Blanco County ESD No. 2 Board of Commissioners Fire & EMS Auxiliary wish to thank our volunteers, who are here for us without pay:
Assistant Chief Cean Charles
Capt ...
