LBJ Middle School 7th Grader Briley Sralla took the winners stand with her teammates last weekend to accept the Junior National Air Rifle Championship trophy in Griffin, Georgia. Sralla, who thinks back fondly on the pink .22 Santa brought when she was five years old, began shooting competitively when she was eight.
Johnson City, TX – Results of the 2021 Blanco County Youth Exhibit Hall event were released recently, with 46 4-H, FFA & FCCLA members exhibiting 307 entries.
Junior Sweepstakes Winner-Mariel Steele, Hill Country Spurs 4-H Clubz
Senior Sweepstakes Winner-Kinley Felps, Blanco FFA Chapter
Foods Class
Champion-Alayna Steele, Decadent Chocolate Chip Bars
Reserve Champion-Kaitlin Hacker, Strawberry Shortcake Fudge
Junior Cookies
1st Place Jacob Anders, Chocolate Crinkle Cookies
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Almost 50 rural Texas telephone companies have filed a lawsuit against the Public Utility Commission of Texas, accusing the state regulatory agency of illegally withholding universal service fund (“USF”) revenues crucial to maintaining the statewide telecommunications network in rural areas.
The lawsuit contends the PUC’s action was taken in violation of the Texas Open Meetings Act, through illegal rulemakings, and in direct contradiction of existing state law.
2020 was consumed by COVID-19. According to the Centers for Disease Control, the full name is coronavirus disease 2019, abbreviated to COVID-19. ‘CO’ stands for ‘corona,’ ‘VI’ for ‘virus,’ and ‘D’ for disease. The ‘19’ is for the year it was first identified in Wuhan, China in December of 2019.
COVID-19 is a clinical/scientific name, but others, like Alzheimer’s disease, are named for people.
Like Crohn’s disease, Duchenne muscular dystrophy, or Hodgkin d ...
Texas House and Senate leaders appear to agree on their proposed budgets. Next, they just have to figure out how to cut $7.2 billion.
Senate Finance Chair Jane Nelson, R-Flower Mound, worked with Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick to propose a state budget of $119.7 billion in general funds. House Speaker Dade Phelan, R-Beaumont, proposed the same budget figure, indicating a collaborative spirit at the start of the 87th session.
That spirit will be tested as legislators try to meet Comptroller Glen ...
By Jakki Milford
Two desperate men are on the run in Blanco. They are guilty, to be sure, but not of the murder that they are accused of. Fortunately for all of us, it is fictional, and all the action is being captured in the name of entertainment for the four-part series Death and Compromise on Amazon Prime Video.
The time in which the movie is set was one of radical strife and changes in Texas.
JCVFD Regular Meeting
The next regular business meeting is scheduled for January 27, 2021 at 6 p.m.
Homeschool Day-
Engineering
Ready to tinker, test and tackle new challenges? Homeschool Day at the Science Mill this month is focused on careers in engineering, and will be held on Feb. 3 and Feb. 19 from 10 a.m.
Dear Readers, I am sure that among those who read my columns there are folks who are seriously concerned with the condition of our planet and want to do what they can to solve it, others who either don’t believe in Global Warming or consider it something modern technology can find a cure for, and lots of folks in between.
David Attenborough’s book, “A Life on Our Planet,” discusses about every aspect of this topic, what the problem is, how it happens, what causes it and what we can ...
Mark Lesly Smith, PhD, resident artist of the Texas Arthouse gallery in Johnson City, has announced his masterwork, The Hope Suite, which is comprised of 44 individual works, will now be a part of the permanent collection at Obama Presidential Center Museum. Smith created The Hope Suite in Austin and in Indianapolis during 2008-2014.
By Emily Hilley-Sierzchula
Blanco County has administered every last drop of the COVID-19 vaccine doses that were delivered to the county earlier this month, and now officials are awaiting the next shipment as cases continue to climb.
The county received a shipment of 300 doses of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine three weeks ago and inoculations of first responders immediately commenced on Jan.
