July 2, 2015 Issue

Join the Celebration!!! Welcome to the 13th annual Fourth of July Spangle Dangle Celebration, an event for all ages. The day will begin with a Parade at 10 am in downtown Johnson City Texas. Once again it is time to break out the lawn chairs and grab a spot on the parade route which starts at the corner of LBJ Drive and East Pecan Avenue going west to Nugent Avenue then making a right around the Blanco County Courthouse and then going east on Cypress Street back to LBJ Drive. Anyone can partici ...

Local authorities have made another arrest involving an alleged possession of methamphetamine. According to Johnson City Police Chief Randy Holland, local resident Donald Wayne Thompson, Jr., 32, was arrested in the wake of a routine traffic stop on Thursday, June 25 at approximately 10:57 p.m. "Johnson City Investigator Garrett Scallorn conducted a traffic stop on a 2007 tan colored Dodge four-door pickup truck in the 400 block of U.S.

Thursday, June 25 turned out to be a busy day for Johnson City Investigator Garrett Scallorn. In addition to an arrest allegedly involving methamphetamine (see related story), the officer also made an arrest for alleged theft of a motor vehicle. According to Johnson City Police Chief Randy Holland, Scallorn spotted a suspicious situation at approximately 3 a.m.

In May 2015, Hill Country Memorial began offering a new service for medical withdrawal stabilization called "One-Eighty™". The service is for individuals who are dependent on prescription medicines, alcohol and illegal substances and ready to take a 180° turn toward sobriety. At HCM, One-Eighty participants are treated on a medical floor where the symptoms of withdrawal are managed by nurses and medical director Dr.