The Blanco Panthers continued their strong start to the 2015 season with an impressive win over visiting San Antonio Christian. The Panthers scored early and often to jump out to a 27-7 first quarter lead and never looked back as Blanco totaled season highs in almost every offensive category.
Ryan Ronces got the first two TD's of the game on runs of 1 and 2 yards.
Twin Sisters Historic Dance Hall was built in the 1870's by Max Krueger who came from Germany. The historic hall served the community as a community dance hall where families shared food amd stories as families danced the night away. It was a place of community gatherings for good times as well as the bad times.
The Blanco Library is honored to announce that at this month’s Blanco County South Library District board meeting, it was approved to accept a contract for a $33,100 cooperative grant project between the library and the Community English Classes (CEC) Program. This project is made possible by a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services to the Texas State Library and Archives Commission under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act.
A focal point of interest in Blanco’s Redbud Café is the Rainfall Record, displayed on large cream-colored plywood panels on the west side wall, with data faithfully collected by the Blanco Lions’ club and more famously, by local weather observer Roy Byars, who was the manager of Charles E. Crist Hardware, the original owners of the building.
The GVTC Foundation recently awarded a grant to the Hill Country Pregnancy Care Center in support of the HCPCC expansion of services to the Bulverde/Spring Branch area. Working with the Acacia Medical Mission and the Gabriel Project of St. Joseph's of Honey Creek Catholic Church, the HCPCC will be providing the same free services in Bulverde that are available in Boerne.
Thanks to an anonymous donor, a laptop sonogram machine has been purchased and staff have been trained on it.
In the Public Comments portion of the September 8 meeting of the governing body of Blanco, night-sky advocate Wayne Gosnell reported that he had "good news and bad news" for council members. The bad news was that the newly-remodeled Dairy Queen had installed lighting not in compliance with Blanco's lighting ordinance.
The Blanco Panthers only needed one strong quarter offensively to bring home their third win of the season, while the defense held strong denying Luling any thoughts of an Eagle victory. Although Blanco had some success moving the ball, turnovers and stalled drives put an end to several Panther possessions.
The first quarter of play proved to be uneventful, as both teams simply traded field position.
The Blanco Panthers' home opener this past Friday went as planned with a strong showing on both sides of the ball as Blanco defeated rival Comfort 27 to 7. With the exception of a couple of turnovers preventing the margin of victory from being much larger, the outcome of the game was never in doubt.
The Panthers opened the game with a 13 play, 68 yard drive, eating up over 7 minutes off the clock before QB Jordon Wagner plunged in for the TD from a yard out.
Last week, longtime Blanco City Councilman Bobby "Mack" McClung announced he was resigning in order to force an election, rather than allow a vacant council seat to be appointed by the newly-elected city council.
That plan did not come to fruition.
Instead, at the June 16 Blanco City Council meeting, members voted to appoint Bharat Patel to fill the unexpired city council term of deceased Councilman Al Turner.
Patel, owner of the Blanco Best Western Hotel, was one of four applicants for the vac ...
Pedernales Electric Cooperative welcomed an estimated 400 attendees at its annual meeting Saturday, June 20, in Cedar Park.
The meeting brought together PEC members to participate in the co-op's election, to learn more about their cooperative and to speak with the Board of Directors and co-op staff.
PEC members had a final opportunity to vote prior to the business meeting.
