Many local residents received their first COVID-19 vaccine in a skillfully orchestrated outdoor process at the Baylor Scott & White Marble Falls medical campus last week, and many more will receive the vaccine this week. BS&W received 975 doses of the Pfizer vaccine last week, and will receive another 975 doses this week.
BS&W Marble Falls is the only hub in a five county region including Blanco, Burnet, Llano, Mason, and San Saba counties.
The Horseshoe Bay Cultural Enrichment Society board of directors simply couldn’t let Mike Maine step down as president without giving him a proper thank you. And boy did they!
Maine was treated to a surprise gathering in his honor January 29 when the directors didn’t leave after the meeting was adjourned, and they wouldn’t let him leave either – not without telling him how grateful they were for all his contributions to ensure the arts in Horseshoe Bay are here to stay.
The Helping Center of Marble Falls has opened its spacious new facility at 1016 Broadway. The Club at Horseshoe Bay Resort Mah Jongg Tournament committee chairs, former and current, were treated to a private tour. Participating in the tour were (from left) The Helping Center Board Vice President Lesa Koster, 2021 Chairs Charlotte Steindorf and Terri Mathews, 2019 Chair Janice Williston, 2021 Chair Jo Ellen Henderson, 2019 Chair Sandy Olson, and Burnet County Food Alliance Board President and ...
Horseshoe Bay’s Cultural Enrichment Society is excited to welcome The Everly Brothers Experience featuring the Zmed Brothers to Quail Point Lodge in HSB at 107 Twilight Lane at 4:30 PM on Sunday, February 28. Tickets are $45 each and are available for purchase at hsbenrichment.org.
Since 2016, brothers Zachary and Dylan Zmed, along with their partner and drummer Burleigh Drummond, have celebrated the pivotal music and history of The Everly Brothers’ legacy with enthusiastic crowds world ...
Llano County Health Authority Dr. Jack Franklin said the county has requested 7,000 doses of the COVID-19 vaccine and plans to have vaccine sites in Llano, Kingsland, and Horseshoe Bay. “All of this is dependent upon getting the vaccine, however,” Dr. Franklin explained. “The problem is we are not in control of supply.”
Llano County set up an online registration for the vaccine earlier this month and has over 5,000 people on the list.
The narrative I created in my mind for 2021 is not playing out as I had hoped, and I’m not happy about it. 2021 was supposed to be when the wound that was 2020 would begin to scab over. But our hopes for that were shattered in the first few days of the new year as the insidious COVID-19 case numbers and deaths spiked significantly, yet another deadly new strain of the virus was identified, the much-hyped vaccine roll out stalled, and radioactive rhetoric and violence tore through our nation ...
When you begin investing, you’ll generally assess your comfort with risk, as your investment choices will be guided at least partially by your risk tolerance. But once you actually experience the ups and downs of the market, this tolerance could be tested.
Risk tolerance may appear less bothersome in the abstract but seem quite different in reality.
Like elsewhere in the state and across the country, cases of COVID-19 are rising across the Texas Hill Country, including in Burnet and Llano counties. It’s a concerning trend, especially since it comes amid the holiday season when many healthcare facilities are also busy caring for patients with other illnesses that are prevalent this time of year.
However, there is finally a silver lining with the introduction of a vaccine that appears to be highly effective.
he first shipments of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine rolled out of UPS and FedEx warehouses earlier this week and the first doses have been plunged into the arms of healthcare workers nationwide, to applause and fanfare.
But when will Llano County folks have access to the vaccine?
“To the best of my knowledge, the vaccine should be available starting in early January for EMS, first responders, healthcare workers and law enforcement officers,” said Dr.
Llano voters made their choices known in several local races that were decided yesterday, including the Llano City Council, for which five candidates competed for two spots, and the Llano Independent School District Board of Trustees.
Voters decided to keep their LISD board president, Rick Tisdale, at Place 3, but school board newcomer Carlos Strand unseated the vice president at Place 4.
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Folks will see familiar faces at City of Llano City Council meetings.
The only ...