Mayor Martha Herden announced that the city has been awarded services by the Texas Water Development Board to provide a comprehensive water and wastewater asset management plan.
The award, valued at $75,000, will provide the funds for the city to work with TWDB pre-qualified contractors to create the plan.
“The plan will include identification and inventory of all the city’s water and wastewater locations, connections and pipes,” Mayor Herden said.
The Old Blanco County Courthouse Preservation Society has launched a capital campaign to raise funds for two major restoration projects. They are seeking contributions to repair and replace the two staircase bannisters and repair windows to protect against water penetration.
“We’ve done a lot of work in recent years,” Jim Harris, OBCCPS president.
The County’s South Annex 2,700 sq. ft. project is nearing completion and will open to the public in February. The annex is located at 402 Blanco Ave.
The Annex will house the Justice of the Peace, Precinct 4, Bob Riley and staff. In addition, there will be part-time offices for the County Clerk and Tax Assessor Collector as well as space for state and local law enforcement, the County Attorney and Adult Community Supervision.
The courtroom is designed to double as a meeting or conferenc ...
Timothy Wade Foth, 39, whose last known address of 625 Forest View Dr. Blanco, was sentenced by a Blanco County jury to three life sentences for aggravated sexual assault plus 99 years for aggravated kidnapping along with 50 years and a $10,000 fine for aggravated robbery.
The criminal case, prosecuted by the 33rd & 424th Judicial District Attorney’s Office last week, ended in a conviction on five of six counts, based on an investigation by the Blanco County Sheriff’s department that be ...
Texas Game Wardens are seeking information to aid in locating the person or persons responsible for illegally shooting the deer pictured at left. The head was removed and the body left to waste.
The location of the incident was Cypress Mill Road in northeast Blanco County and is believed to have occurred the second week of January.
Operation Game Thief, the Texas’ wildlife crime-stoppers program, is offering a reward of up to $1,000 for information regarding the incident.
Anyone interested in stepping back in time, when Texas was a land of many trails linking outlying areas with settlements and the only transportation in those early days was by horse, mule or oxen, can join the Hill Country Trail Ride this weekend. Paths formed by the repetitive use of settlers became trails ridden to drive livestock to market and settlers rode the trails around the area into Blanco.
Historic dance halls in the area were often destinations along the trails.
Mayor Martha Herden began the Tuesday, Jan. 9, 2018, meeting of the governing body of Blanco with a moment of silence for former city council member Danny Ray in the death of his son.
Following the Pledge of Allegiance, Mayor Herden said that she anticipates 2018 being an exciting year, with many new projects and a lot of new beginnings.
“Changes are coming,” Mayor Herden said.
The 2018 Blanco County Youth Show turned out to be a great success and meaningful experience for the youth of Blanco County due to the help of countless volunteers and the Blanco County 4-H and FFA Youth Council board. Exhibitors, parents and other volunteers showed up for a workday on Dec.
