Lights Spectacular Hill Country Style in Johnson City is getting new life as a new planning committee takes over the huge endeavor. Under the new direction of chair Chrystal Tamillo, owner of Pecan Street Brewing and the 12 other committee members including Mayor Dawn Capra, planning for Lights Spectacular Hill Country Style must begin early to get this Chamber of Commerce event developed in enough time.
The event committee saw the need to keep this fun holiday tradition going when voluntee ...
Rough Diamond Brewery celebrated its grand opening Saturday, Aug. 25 with an afternoon of live music food trucks Old 300 and Goldstone Pizza, along with several varieties of beer on tap.
“We had 250 to 300 people at the grand opening,” Costa Synodinos said. “There were two bands, JR Herrera and Rockey.
More than 150 people were at the Old Blanco County Courthouse Thursday, Aug. 23, 2018 for a Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) public hearing on an increased discharge permit request from the city of Blanco. The first phase of the permit represents 225,000 gallons of treated discharged wastewater per day, associated with the new wastewater treatment plant (WWTP) under construction and nearly complete at 289 Waters Edge Rd.
Harvey Anniversary
August 25 marked one year since Hurricane Harvey’s battering winds and torrential rains brought death and destruction to coastal and inland counties of Texas.
Repairs and rebuilding in the region continue to this day, and the U.S. Office of Coastal Management has estimated the cost of the storm at $125 billion.
Mortality, Morbidity Studied
The Texas Department of State Health Services announced the release of case reviews by its Texas Maternal Mortality and Morbid ...
HCA received over 500 entries to the 2018 photo contest from amateur and professional photographers alike. Submissions, ranging from a bolt of lightning cutting across a star-filled sky, to a stately windmill on a sprawling ranch and an evening paddle through Blue Hole, beautifully captured this year’s theme: The Texas Hill Country: The Place and its People.
The four winning photographs were selected by a panel of judges and will be featured in HCA’s popular 2019 Texas Hill Country Cale ...
Gem of the Hills Activity Center Board of Directors is requesting community input. Since its inception Gem of the Hills has offered a facility to reflect the needs of its members and the community at large. In 1984 visionary citizens of Blanco County gathered with the purpose of establishing a place where the adult community could gather to enrich their lives through programs and activities in recreation, health and wellbeing and fellowship.
Someone asked me the other day if our current lack of rainfall is as bad now as it was in the drought of 2011. I looked up our rainfall records at our house and found that we have had more than twice as much rain in the first half of 2018 as we did in 2011, and even if I look at the total rainfall for the nine months preceding the end of June in 2018 compared to 2011, again we have had more than twice as much rain this year than in 2011.
So no, things are not as bad now as there were in 201 ...
When staff at the Selah, Bamberger Ranch Preserve came to the Blanco State Park to help remove debris following the Memorial Day flood of 2015, they saw big pecan logs in piles destined for the city landfill.
Colleen Gardner, executive director of the Ranch, located at 2341 Blue Ridge Dr., Johnson City, ranch manager Steven Fulton and ranch biologist Jared Holmes were among the volunteers.
Three local programs provide meal delivery services seven days a week throughout the year to shut-ins and elderly people with mobility challenges. The programs are enabled by a multitude of community volunteers who cook and deliver meals.
Meals on Wheels
Under the leadership of Claudia Smith and based out of the kitchen at Trinity Lutheran, the Meals on Wheels program delivers up to 25 meals cooked by the Austin-based Meals on Wheels of Central Texas.
Blanco churches volunteer to make d ...
Pedernales Electric Cooperative’s Board of Directors has selected Julie Parsley to lead the nation’s largest and fastest-growing distribution electric cooperative. Parsley is a former partner of Parsley Coffin Renner, a law firm specializing in utility regulations.
“We’re proud to share that Julie Parsley will be joining the PEC family,” Board President Emily Pataki said.
