We all know the story. On February 2nd, people come from all over to gather and watch a diminutive critter crawl out into the sun. If he sees his shadow? Six more weeks of winter. If he doesn’t, spring begins.
But we’re not talking about a groundhog from a small town in Pennsylvania who can predict the changing of the seasons.
Horseshoe Bay’s Cultural Enrichment Society is excited to welcome The Everly Brothers Experience featuring the Zmed Brothers to Quail Point Lodge in HSB at 107 Twilight Lane at 4:30 PM on Sunday, February 28. Tickets are $45 each and are available for purchase at hsbenrichment.org.
Since 2016, brothers Zachary and Dylan Zmed, along with their partner and drummer Burleigh Drummond, have celebrated the pivotal music and history of The Everly Brothers legacy with enthusiastic crowds worldwid ...
Fredericksburg– The Hill Country Alliance, Texas Tech University’s Department of Natural Resources Management, and partners have launched the 2021 Axis Deer Control Project and are encouraging landowners and hunters to participate.
Axis deer are an exotic species that were introduced from India to the Texas Hill Country in the 1930s. Since their introduction, this species has proliferated in several portions of the Hill Country, adversely impacting agricultural production, native wildli ...
AUSTIN-The filing period for three vacancies on the Education Service Center Region 13 board of directors is February 1 through February 20.
Rich Elsasser, executive director of the education service center, announced that candidates may file on a board approved form, in person or by mail, between 8:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m.
The Hill Country Trail Ride gets underway this weekend and will go through Blanco for the 56th year.
The trail ride started with 12 others from across Texas to head into San Antonio to kick off the stock show and rodeo. The trail rides normally kicks off the rodeo riding into the ATT Center, with riders representing each area of Texas.
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.
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 ...
