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Johnson City native Bill Krueger was honored by the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame last week with the Morgan Wootten Lifetime Achievement Award. The award is presented annually “to honor those who have had a tremendous influence on the game and to provide a national stage to recognize them,” according to the organization’s website.
Effective immediately, the Blanco County Recycling Center will not accept plastics of any grade, according to the County Commissioner and Blanco Recycling Center Manager Paul Granberg.
“Due to market conditions beyond our control, there is no place in the world that will accept plastics,” he said. “At one time we had three buyers who would take plastics.
Blanco County Commissioners held a Special Meeting on March 26, 2019. All four Commissioners and Blanco County Judge Brett Bray attended the meeting.
Ken Nickel, Executive Director of Hill Country Children’s Advocacy Center gave a presentation to the Commissioners. According to Nickel, “Ten percent of all children under age 18 have been sexually abused by the age of 18, and 95% of them know the predators.
In the world of literature there is perhaps no other form writing that is more diverse than poetry. From odes and sonnets to limericks and ballads these unique pieces of prose artfully paint mental masterpieces in the minds of the reader, or listener as they visualize the stories being told.
The League of Women Voters of the Hill Country is conducting a Candidate Forum on Saturday, April 6 from 9:30am to 12 noon. The candidates for the Johnson City ISD Trustee election are scheduled from 9:30am to 10:35am and the candidates for the Mayor and City Council of Johnson City are scheduled from 10:45 to 12:15pm.
AUSTIN — Last week, with 60 days remaining until the end of the 140-day regular session of the 86th Texas Legislature, the House and Senate vaulted closer toward finalizing a state budget.
On March 27, the House of Representatives voted 149-0 in favor of HB 1, its version of the state budget for fiscal years 2020 and 2021.
The annual plant sale presented by Blanco County Master Gardeners will be located at the First United Methodist Church, 105 LBJ Drive, Johnson City, Saturday, April 6, 9 am to 4 pm.
This year the Master Gardeners have organized an event to not only encompass sale of native and vegetable plants and grasses but information everyone can use while planning and tending their gardens and landscapes.
Gardenscape, an annual community informational program about a variety of timely topics on plant ...
Trinity Lutheran Church in Stonewall will host their annual Fish Fry on Sunday, April 14, 2019. Lunch will be served beginning at 11:30 a.m. and will be sold by donation. A drive-through line for To-Go Meals will be available as well. Meal includes fried fish, hush puppies and all the trimmings and home-made desserts.
Trinity’s Happy Quilters have been busy quilting a beautiful full size quilt.
Highland Lakes Creative Arts and the Phoenix Center are expanding their partnership to include the promotion of Family Art Day during Paint the Town 2019. The event is free and open to the public from 10 a.m.- 5 p.m. on Saturday, April 6 at the Lakeside Pavilion in Marble Falls.
The Quick Draw Competition begins at 10 a.m.
The Johnson City Record Courier at 110 E Main Street has new office hours. With the exception of being out on assignment, the hours are 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Monday through Thursday. If no one is here, there will be a note on the door with our expected return time.
Johnson City native Bill Krueger was honored by the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame last week with the Morgan Wootten Lifetime Achievement Award. The award is presented annually “to honor those who have had a tremendous influence on the game and to provide a national stage to recognize them,” according to the organization’s website.
The Eagle Varsity Baseball team went 1-1 in a two-game home stand at McKinney Field last week, facing two contenders in the highly competitive District 25-3A.
On Tuesday the Eagles got behind early as Jarrell sent two balls over the fence with runners on in the first inning to take a 4-0 lead.
The Eagle 7th Grade Boys Track team scored 228 points to win their division in the Center Point Invitational Meet last Thursday outscoring runner-up Junction by 46 points. The 7th Grade Lady Eagles’ 149 points were forty better than runner-up Fredericksburg Heritage giving LBJ Middle School a pair of Championship plaques to take home.
Junior Kenzie Adrian joined a field of 7,201 high school, college and professional athletes who competed in the 92nd Clyde Littlefield Texas Relays last weekend in Austin. Competing for the third year among an elite field of qualifiers in the Girls’ Javelin Kenzie marked a best throw of 108’7” to finish in 8th Place.
The typically hard-hitting Johnson City Lady Eagles Varsity Softball team managed just three hits against Jarrell and one against Blanco as they suffered back-to-back losses in district play last week. The visiting Lady Cougars came out swinging on Tuesday, scoring six runs on four hits in the top of the first inning and never trailed in the contest.
Donald Duane Green, 85, passed away at his home on March 28, 2019. He was born in Hamlin, Texas on April 26, 1933 to Edward Wade and Lila Belle Green. When he was little, he was given the nickname Sugar by his mother, because she said he was so sweet.
A FEW MISTAKES HAVE BEEN MADE in my 22 years as a pastor; all were embarrassing. There are two in particular that cause me to get red-faced when I remember them:
At a Communion service several years back, when reflecting on the punishment Jesus received, I said to the congregation that "Jesus was beatilly bruten on our behalf."
The Deike brothers from Hye, Texas took sibling rivalry to another level. In August 1935 they left their regular jobs on the farm, at the store and at the cotton gin to battle the Stanczak brothers from Waukegan, Illinois for the All Brothers Baseball Championship.
Baseball was big stuff in the Texas Hill Country so it was natural that Fritz Deike’s 9 sons, ranging in age from 13 to32, would form a family baseball team.
Hill Country baseball was a social event in those days - part athle ...
On my way to El Paso in January, I stopped at a place called Tornillo, a small town on the Texas border with Mexico. At the time, it was the site of a tent city that housed children--asylum seekers from Central America--who had crossed the border unaccompanied by an adult.
It was a cold, windy day in January when I stood outside the fence.
AUSTIN — Last week, with 60 days remaining until the end of the 140-day regular session of the 86th Texas Legislature, the House and Senate vaulted closer toward finalizing a state budget.
On March 27, the House of Representatives voted 149-0 in favor of HB 1, its version of the state budget for fiscal years 2020 and 2021.
Highland Lakes Creative Arts and the Phoenix Center are expanding their partnership to include the promotion of Family Art Day during Paint the Town 2019. The event is free and open to the public from 10 a.m.- 5 p.m. on Saturday, April 6 at the Lakeside Pavilion in Marble Falls.
The Quick Draw Competition begins at 10 a.m.
