Blanco had two special Nigerian visitors last week who were guests of Mayor Mike Arnold.
Best selling author and businessman Reno Omokri and Prince Stephen Tobins visited Blanco and the surrounding area.
Omokri said that he found Blanco’s small town folksiness lovely. This was his first visit to the Hill Country, but not his first trip to Texas.
Omokri said he’d been considering buying another house in California, when Arnold suggested that he check out Blanco, too.
A large crowd attended the 22nd Annual Blanco County Wild Game Dinner held Saturday in Johnson City. Attendees enjoyed plenty of food, live music, a dance, auctions, raffles and more. “Thank you for making our 22nd annual event a success this year, said the committee. “This would not be possible without our hard working committee members, sponsors and donors, countless volunteers and our awesome cooks.”
Blanco County residents could see significant changes to its legislative districts if preliminary redistricting plans are accepted.
Newly released proposals would significantly change State House and Senate Districts for Blanco County, while its district in the U.S. Congress would remain largely the same.
In the first proposed plan released by the Texas House, Blanco County would join State House District 19 with Gillespie, Kendall and Burnet counties, along with a portion of western Trav ...
More than 1,000 Blanco County residents have contracted COVID-19 since the pandemic began, but a county health official told the News on Monday that the recent surge is starting to stabilize.
“As of Monday, 1,265 people in our county have contracted COVID-19, which is more than 10 percent of our population,” said Blanco County EMS Chief Ben Oakley, who is the county’s health authority.
One can’t talk about the origins of Lights Spectacular without thanking Norma Honeycutt, Rosie Danz and Rhonda Stell. Danz was the 1990 Johnson City Chamber of Commerce president at the time and said, “Norma Honeycutt made this possible, and we’re so blessed she joined our community.”
Honeycutt was a newcomer and Garden Club president in 1990.
In February 2007, following the completion of the 2005 Blanco Comprehensive Master Plan, (CMP) the City of Blanco began seven months of exciting meetings with the steering committee and public for the Visionaries In Preservation (VIP) Plan. This was a second plan by THC that would walk along side and strengthen the CMP.
Nothing could have prepared me for the first time I visited an IDP camp in Nigeria.
My leadership team there in Abuja, the nation’s capital, had spent months organizing 21 churches, renting a stadium, and all the many details in staging a large-scale evangelistic outreach. It was early afternoon in November 2019, and my crew from the USA were dressed up, loaded in vans, and ready to roll.
So I was taken aback when my dear friend Pastor Jed D’Grace, head of my in-country organization A ...
Medications are part of the American way of life. Just watch a When my mission team arrived in the horrifically impoverished and ramshackle Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) camp on the outskirts of Abuja, Nigeria, we were first met by wave of energetic children who flocked to us, full of smiles and laughter, eager to meet the unexpected visitors.
Once their excitement settled, we were greeted by a leader from the camp who led us to the shanty of a wiry, bright-eyed, middle-aged woman who ...
Standing there in the horrifically impoverished camp for Internally Displaced Persons in Abuja, Nigeria, I had asked Ms. Hanatu how we could help her.
Forced with her three young daughters from their happy life by the murder-frenzied Islamists of Boko Haram to this post-apocalyptic hell-hole six years prior, I imagined her list would be long: Water?
In working to help educate the internally-displaced children in Nigeria, and digging into the situation there, I’ve been blessed to form relationships with some of the top international experts in the field. These include multiple former ambassadors, a Catholic Cardinal (and personal friend of the Pope), think-tank leaders, international journalists, and many, many more.
Nigeria was victim of the worst of British colonialism.
