July 20, 2016 Issue
On Tuesday, at approximately 4 a.m., an officer with the Llano Police Department conducted a traffic stop in the 600 block of Sheffield Avenue. During the course of the traffic stop, the driver’s vehicle was searched, turning up over 73 grams of methamphetamine.
Tanya Lynn Slaughter, 35, of Llano, was arrested and charged with possession of a controlled substance with intent to deliver, which is a first degree felony.
Tanya Slaughter, along with Courtney Slaughter, 17, and Austin Miller, 21, ...
Rickey Oestreich, foreman of the Llano Parks Department, was named the city’s employee of the quarter for the second quarter of 2016. He was presented the award at Monday’s city council meeting.
It was week four of summer camp and 400 campers were in camp, but the five from the Llano troop were the best.
Earlier this month five Llano Boy Scouts and three adult leaders spent a week at Lost Pines Scout Reservation near Bastrop. The main goal was to have fun, but also to earn badges and learn new life skills.
The Llano troop hadn’t won a blue ribbon in living memory.
This past Saturday was a big day for the Llano Red Top Jail, beginning at 10 a.m. with tours of Llano’s oldest bed and breakfast. Manned 100 percent by volunteers from the Friends of the Llano Red Top Jail, the tours take about 20-30 minutes depending on the participation from those taking the tour.
From the “booking room” to the “throne room,” to the “maximum security cells,” the Red Top Jail is full of history.
The Llano Economic Development Corporation could look at the feasibility of a second arena or an amphitheater among projects in the next fiscal year.
The Llano City Council on Monday approved the first reading of the LEDC’s budget for the 2016-17 fiscal year.
The projection is for a $296,119 budget in the next fiscal year.
Big changes at Llano Elementary School were the lead item in Dean Sharp’s report on the 2014 bond projects at the July meeting of the Llano ISD Board of Trustees.
Mainly, the old “main” building. “For all intents and purposes, it’s gone,’ he said. The building has been demolished and a new connecting wing will be built.
Emergent Order has announced the filming of its television pilot of Freedom on Trial will take place Aug. 8-12 in Llano.
The company said it chose Llano after an extensive search throughout Texas. Llano was chosen due to both its status as a “Film Friendly Texas” community and the array of beautiful architecture and picture perfect locations.
“After visiting Llano, we knew it was the perfect location to serve as the backdrop for our script.
Joe Randerson served in the United States Air Force in World War II, in the 2nd Fighter Squadron.
“I flew P51 Mustangs. Forty-nine missions in all by the time the war ended,” he said. “On my 17th mission, I was shot down over Yugoslavia with burns to 40 percent of my body.”
Randerson has not been in a P51 since 1949.
DALLAS — Big 12 Commissioner Bob Bowlsby’s table — not just his plate for heaven’s sake — is overflowing these days—and he tried to parcel out slices of the conference menu in his keynote address, July 18, at Football Media Days.
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“Our conference and our Board {presidents and chancellors} don’t have any legal standing on some of the things that have taken place or are alleged to have taken place — but — we are very c ...
DALLAS — Gary Patterson’s eleven went through five overtimes its final two games of the 2015 season and won both — one in remarkable fashion. Why shouldn’t he be “excited” about what’s ahead for this campaign?
“Our kids will do this as a group — makes it fun for a coach.” That’s an indication from Patterson his bunch can overcome such losses as quarterback Trevone Boykin and wide receiver Josh Doctson.
Sophomore Foster Sawyer and A&M trans ...
A lot of ‘rasslin going on among the mascots. From left, an Oklahoma State Cowboy, Bevo of Texas, and an Iowa State Hawkeye. The white hat in back belongs to a Texas Tech Red Raider.
SAC now, SACks soon. That’s Strength and Conditioning — the norm throughout Texas and probably adjoining towns. In Llano, the six-week session, the final volunteer prelude to football practice, is over. The practice is not voluntary.
Two-a-days begin on the first day of August.
“When I was their age, we weren’t asked to do this,” 1991 Winters High graduate, Craig Slaughter, told me, concerning SAC.
Juanita Kathryn (Callaway) Howe passed away Tuesday, July 12, in Bluffton at the age of 94. She was born Oct. 12, 1921 in Sweetwater to Thomas and Georgie Lee Callaway. She loved fishing, cards and bowling. Juanita retired from Peoples National Bank in Lampasas.
She is survived by her son Richard Howe and wife Martha; grandchildren Paul, Jeff and Thomas Bode, Terry Howe and Robin Lindell; 11 great grandchildren; nieces, Pam Deinlein, LeNita Allen, Carol Cox, Kathy Gay and other loving nieces an ...
Jo Nell (Thigpen) Schreiber passed away Friday, July 15, at the age of 73. She was born July 22, 1942, to Lilly Lela (Robertson) and William Thigpen in Dunn. She later married Joseph Schreiber in Colorado City on Sept. 16, 1959.
In the early years Jo Nell worked on the ambulance alongside of R.L.
Regional differences can be an interesting thing. Have you ever been in a conversation with someone, and they said something you didn’t understand at all?
A couple years ago, a friend informed me that her family referred to the remote control as the “TV Box.” That was definitely a new one for me.
Dear Editor,
I am asking the council members to again fund the $16,000 to the Llano County Library for the purchase of books for only this city library.
The books purchased with this money stays in the Llano Library, so you can see the benefit is for the citizens of the City of Llano.
Paul Paxton
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Forman
Dear Editor,
We the people who use County Road 408 in the Valley Springs Subdivision appreciate Commissioner Jerry Don Moss and the Llano County Road Department for the fine paving job of CR 408 from Hwy. 71 at Valley Spring to the San Saba County line and one half mile of the Valley Ranch Subdivision.
The job was done with precision and is quality work.
Dear Editor,
My husband and I have been sick and in the emergency room and/or hospital many times in the past year, and we just want to say how much we appreciate and how proud we are to have the Llano Scott & White Hospital here.
We have received excellent care from everyone there.