March 15, 2018 Issue

The contract between Blanco County and Zuercher Technologies for the Sheriff’s Office computer aided dispatch system has been finalized and approved by county officials. The Blanco County Sheriff’s Office was excited to finally get a new dispatch system approved after years of discussion, and months of reviewing proposals and negotiating a final contract. The final amount of the proposal from Zuercher Technologies was approved at $251 thousand which includes servers, Zuercher’s oper ...

Parents in the Johnson City ISD were notified March 2, 2018, that the district was contacted by Blanco County Sheriff’s Department regarding an active investigation of individuals soliciting inappropriate photos from students through the social networking app Snapchat. The Sheriff’s Department, Child Protective Services and the Federal Bureau of Investigation are currently investigating the matter, according to the letter to parents from Richard Kolek, JCISD Superintendent. “It is i ...

Blanco County Commissioners held court on Tuesday and approved several items that have been an ongoing discussion through several meetings. Along with the purchase of dispatch technology for the Sheriff’s Office, Commissioners also voted to join several other Texas counties in a law suit against Pharmaceutical Companies regarding “The Opioid Epidemic”. The Opioid Epidemic Judge Bray did not want to divide the court on a matter discussed in previous meetings which received mixed opin ...

Parents in the Johnson City ISD were notified March 2, 2018, that the district was contacted by Blanco County Sheriff’s Department regarding an active investigation of individuals soliciting inappropriate photos from students through the social networking app Snapchat. The Sheriff’s Department, Child Protective Services and the Federal Bureau of Investigation are currently investigating the matter, according to the letter to parents from Richard Kolek, JCISD Superintendent. “It is i ...

Blanco County 4-H Shooting Education shooters who participated in the Texas State BB Gun Championship that was held in Fredericksburg, TX on March 10, 2018. Three Blanco County teams proved their ability at this match. They include: Team #1: Keen Linson, Cody Sprouse, David Gravell, Dusti Welch, Dakota Metcalf, Blaze Welch and Destinee Romero; Team #2: Rylee Welch, Colton Moore, Brylinn Scott, Reid Weirich, Hannah Roy, Amelia Perez, and Antonio Perez; and Team #3: Tyler Thompson, Sara Morri ...

March 8, local Real Estate agents from Blanco and Johnson City united! They held their first meeting to talk about ways to work together, start local tours in Blanco County, what all they could do to help promote their listings, help their buyers, ways to advertise, general real estate practice discussed, possible articles from us for the newspaper, and more. Their next meeting will be March 27 8 a.m.

Bobby George Sewell, age 79, of Stonewall, TX was born August 16, 1938 in Johnson City, TX. He was a resident of LBJ Medical Center in Johnson City when he went to meet his Heavenly Father on March 10, 2018. He was preceded in death by his parents, Robert “Bob” and Ruth Sewell; two brothers, William “Bub” Sewell and Printess Sewell; and sister in law, Charlene Sewell. Bobby is survived by Linda, his beloved wife of 28 years; sisters, Zoe Uziel and husband Ralph of Johnson City and ...

The advent of municipal water systems in Blanco and Johnson City provided potable water for human consumption and rural residents drilled wells for their water. But drought throughout the years led to dry wells for some and the stress of development on groundwater sources leads some residents to consider an alternative source of water from rainwater harvesting. “We have a lot of areas in the county with wells that are high in sulfate and mineralization,” Ron Fieseler, general manager of ...