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September 2, 2020 Issue

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Johnson City City Council members held a special meeting on August 25, and Mayor Rhonda Stell called the meeting to order at 6 p.m. via Zoom teleconferencing. A quorum was established with all members present. There were no public comments. There was discussion to approve Resolution #R20-041 approving Mayor Stell and Mayor Pro-Tem Patricia Dildine to be listed on the TexPool accounts in accordance with the investment policy.
Editor’s note: This is a special reprint of the events occured on August 30, 1970. The people came by the thousands Saturday for the dedication of the Lyndon B. Johnson State Park located across the Pedernales River from the L.B.J. Ranch and birthplace of Former President Lyndon B. Johnson. A mass of people estimated at from 6,000 to 8,000 hear Lt.
With so much uncertainty, safety protocols, and concerns, it takes a lot of creativity to plan a community event in 2020. Despite the hurdles, the First United Methodist Church youth program is cautiously moving ahead with plans for their annual fundraiser. “Bill was such a supporter of youth programs and of our church; it was his passion to invest in our community and we are blessed to continue with this tradition even if it looks different in 2020,” says Debby Elsbury. This will be ...
Johnson City Volunteer Fire Department (JCVFD) held a Business Meeting on August 26, and President Ray Bible called the meeting to order at 6:05 p.m. A quorum was established, and there were no public comments. Bible reported, “We had 36 calls for July, with an average response time of 6.0 and 3.19 responders.
Kinder Morgan presented a donation of $48,000 to the Blanco County Sheriff’s office on Wednesday that will in part help with logistics for Lights Spectacular and other ongoing projects. The donation was presented at the Bill Elsbury Law Enforcement Center at 400 US-281 in Johnson City. Pictured left to right: Judge Brett Bray, Allen Fore (Kinder Morgan), Sheriff Don Jackson; Chief Deputy Neal Leonard.
Previously I have written about the fact that which plants deer will eat depends largely on how many deer are in the area and what else there is to eat. I don’t like to use the terms “deer-proof” or “deer-resistant”, because these terms imply that the plant is unlikely to be eaten wherever it is found, which might not be true.
Law enforcement agencies were called to an area near Chimney Valley Road outside of Blanco Tuesday morning after a suspicious device was found near a portion of the Kinder Mogan Permian Highway Pipeline. A call to local agencies went out shortly after 9 a.m. when officials with the Blanco Police Department and Blanco Volunteer Fire Department were called to the scene. A message was sent out to local residents through the county’s alert system before 10 a.m.
The Rotary Club of Blanco County is holding a Zoom meeting on September 8th at 12 p.m. The guest speaker will be April Samson, Executive Director of Bamberger Ranch. Many Blanco County children have gone to Bamberger Ranch on field trips to learn about environmental issues as clearing the land, walking hikes through the ranch to see native trees, and animals, water cleaning methods, lessons on snakes and other animal topics in reference to living in Texas.
The Varsity and Junior Varsity Lady Eagles earned a pair of wins toppling Canyon Lake on the 4A Eagles home court and defending their own court against the visiting 3A Comfort Deer. On Tuesday at Canyon Lake JC White notched their first win, taking down Canyon Lake in two sets.
From the first play of the game - an onside kick that bounced off the hands of a Florence player and was covered by Eagles Mason Roberts and Angel Ramirez - the Johnson City Varsity Eagle Football team controlled Friday night’s 2020 opener over the Florence Buffalos. The Eagles opening drive ended with a 5-yard run by Cody Sprouse for the first score of the 2020 season.
The LBJHS Cross Country team opened the 2020 season last Tuesday with a race through the pecan groves of San Saba bringing home hardware in both the Varsity Girls and Varsity Boys divisions. Sophomore Captain Lydia White raced through the 2-mile course in 13:39.20 for 2nd place with her sister - Freshman Clare White - hot on her heels finishing 3rd with a time of 13:44.2.
Annie Gwendolyn “Gwen” Gillaspia, passed away peacefully on August 19, 2020 surrounded by family and friends. Born December 27, 1936 to Carroll Jacob Coffee and Eva Mae White Coffee in Cotulla, TX. She is survived by her three daughters Deborah Martin, Cynthia Boyd, and Becky Gillaspia; eight grandchildren; eight great grandchildren; and brother Charles Coffee.
Bobbie Jane Phelps Bates Connell of Johnson City, Texas, passed away peacefully in the early morning hours of Sunday, Aug. 30, 2020, in Fredericksburg, Texas. Bobbie was born in Johnson City Feb. 20, 1930, to Nathaniel George Phelps and Dora Edith (Moon) Phelps.  Bobbie is preceded in death by her parents; first husband, James S.
“But, I declare to you,” said J. Reuben Clark, “that it (the Constitution) is what Gladstone said it was, the greatest document ‘ever struck off at a given time by the brain and purpose of man,’ a document which, according to my belief, the Lord himself ‘suffered to be established, and should be maintained for the rights and protection of all flesh, according to just and holy principles,’ established ‘by the hands of wise men whom the Lord raised up for this very purpose’; a ...
Editor’s note: This is a special reprint of the events occured on August 30, 1970. The people came by the thousands Saturday for the dedication of the Lyndon B. Johnson State Park located across the Pedernales River from the L.B.J. Ranch and birthplace of Former President Lyndon B. Johnson. A mass of people estimated at from 6,000 to 8,000 hear Lt.
Buttons were once a big business in Stonewall, Texas. And if you think buttons aren’t important, just try keeping your britches up without one. Button makers used seashells, bone, paper mache and wood to make buttons until plastics took over the whole world in the 20th century. In 1945 B. B. Bohls and his wife Lydia Lindig Bohls founded Capitol Plastic Art Company in Austin.

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