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February 14, 2018 Issue

Over seven decades ago, Jim Foster met Joyce Stewart in a small north Texas town east of Wichita Falls. Jim returned home to Spanish Fort in 1946, after serving in the European Theater in World War II. Joyce was still a high school student when they met, in the nearby town of Nocona.
City of Llano sees slight decrease
Texas Comptroller Glenn Hegar reported sending over $592.8 million in sales tax remittances to Texas cities in February, up 5.15 percent over the amounts sent to cities in February 2017. Some local municipalities soared above the statewide sales tax average increase for the month compared to last year, while others lagged last year’s figures. With the smallest sales tax volume in this area, the City of Sunrise Beach posted a whopping 35.14 percent increase in sales tax remittances over la ...
Smokey the Bear made a brief stop at the Llano County Courthouse Tuesday morning, as he criss-crosses the state in advance of his 75th birthday, which will be next year. He also made stops in Burnet, Mason, Brady and Gillespie counties on Tuesday. Pictured, from left, are Kathryn Stephenson, Mike Sandoval, Smokey, Matt Rienstra, Melissa Wright and Layton, Jannelle Gray and Mary Cunningham.
Llano is so blessed to have the quality of music we have, from our local musicians that play week in and week out, entertaining audiences from 3 to 350, to super stars that make their way to town for larger concerts. Every month, on the second Saturday, Heart of Texas Country Music Association brings the Llano Country Opry to the Lantex Theater for one or two shows that fill the 90-year-old venue. “What a beautiful old theater you have” said one visitor, making her first visit to Llan ...
The Llano County Commissioners weighed whether to join a lawsuit in federal court seeking damages due to the nation’s opioid epidemic at Monday’s regularly scheduled meeting. After a lengthy discussion, the commissioners took no action other than to allow the county attorney’s office to monitor the situation for any future potential decision. Matt Rienstra, assistant county attorney, said the lawsuit in federal court in Cleveland, Ohio, is brought by many governmental entities again ...
On Tuesday, Feb. 6, two Llano High School freshmen competed at the annual district Cross-Examination Debate meet. Bailey McCorkendale and James Edmonson have been debating as a team since September and were the “long-shot” in this competition. Most of their opponents were upper-classmen who had successfully completed rigorous weeks of summer debate camps, yet the McCorkendale-Edmonson team managed to win rounds and earn themselves a fifth place title.  Llano has not had  CX debate t ...
BRADY—There’s a cliché about “running out of superlatives.” That’s accurate if you want to admit that laziness is a family gene. Having trouble coming up with superlatives about Dakoda Trull would be like Marvel not being able to pencil in a 40-yard-dash victory for Superman. Trull was Superman, February 8, in the Heart of Texas Powerlifting Championships in the Bulldog gymnasium.
BRADY—Dakoda Trull wasn’t the only Jacket to have a gold-medal day at the Heart of Texas Powerlifting Championships, February 8. Luis “Undefeated” Coronado, Ray “There’s more to life than throwing” Dixon, and Kara “First-timer” Spence also beat the field, and a number of others from LHS had impressive finishes, as the boys were third in a collection of 17, and the girls were fifth. Coronado, in the 181–pound division, pulled up 535 pounds in the squat; 285, bench press ...
The difficult journey of the 2017-’18 Llano High basketball Jackets concluded February 9 with a 64-43 loss to Salado. Llano wound up 7-22 overall and 1-11 in district. Tyler Wennes and Dalton Bauman played their final games in a Llano High uniform, while Michael Lockhart was out with an injured right hand.
A single win doesn’t seem like much to the Liberty Hills and UConns, but when you go into the final game of the season with no victories in district play, a W stands for Onederful. 49-33, as convincing as the score, the Lady Jackets over Taylor on the sixth of February. “Big for us,” said head coach Jerry McSherry.
John Black’s vistas are changing. The volleyball coach is leaving Llano High for Rio Vista (Class 3A), eight miles south of Cleburne. “It’s a coordinator position {plus volleyball}, close to family and a good opportunity for me,” said Black. On his visit there, “I felt really comfortable; it was a real good feel.” Emily is the daughter of the coach and mom, Lisa, and she’ll be a freshman playing for her dad.
Berta was born in Leonard, June 13, 1927, to James P. Sullivan and Bertha Prather Sullivan. She married J.T Jackson May 7, 1944. They lived in several places throughout Texas before moving to Llano 20 years ago. She was a homemaker who sewed, crocheted, knitted and loved to cook. Berta and J.T.
Frances Margaret Hische Merritt, 84, of St. Francisville, La., died Feb. 7, 2018 after a long and fruitful life. Born Sept. 8, 1933 in Knoxville, Tenn., to Harry L. Hische and Grace Obaugh Hische, Frances and her sister Nan moved around as children but considered Galveston, where they graduated from Ball High School, as their home. Not long after graduation, Frances married Warren Franklin ‘Skeeter’ Merritt Jr.
Kenneth A. Balog (MSgt, USAF, Ret), of Cleveland, Tenn., passed away Wednesday, Feb. 7, 2018 in a local hospice facility. He was born March 2, 1932 in a southeastern suburb of Pittsburgh, Pa.  He graduated high school in 1950 and enlisted in the USAF when the Korean War broke out. He went to San Antonio for basic training at Lackland Air Force base. He became a military policeman, married and went to Korea to serve a year in that war. Mr.
James Warren Deats, 91, known as “Chic” to his friends, died peacefully on Feb. 10, 2018, with family at his side, after a long struggle with dementia. He and his twin sister, Margaret Ann, were born on April 13, 1926, and grew up in Llano. After graduating from Llano High School, James enlisted in the U.S.
Dear Editor, While in line waiting to pay my property tax bill last month I overheard people complaining about how much money they had to pay to the “county.” Perhaps you, like those complaining thought that money must all be going to the county? The property tax bill is not from the county; although it helps fund city, county and school operations, as well as, special districts like utility and emergency service districts. The county and city portions of your tax bill are most like ...
Dear Editor, The Civil War was fought over “states rights.” And what was Lee fighting for? As each state left the Union their legislature wrote out the reasons in epistles called “Declaration of Secession.” South Carolina went out first and wrote the first “document,” laying it out very clearly in about ten paragraphs clearly stating that those rascally Northerners were trying to eliminate slavery.

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