July 11, 2018 Issue

A packed courtroom saw the Llano County Commissioners vote to oppose a proposed sand plant near Sandy Creek. By a 3-2 vote, with County Judge Mary Cunningham and Precinct 4 Commissioner Jerry Don Moss opposing, the commissioners passed a resolution to oppose a portable crusher and sand/gravel plant proposed by Collier Materials, Inc., to be located at Sandy Creek on land off SH 71.

Fireworks lit up the sky above Llano on Saturday night to wrap up Rock’N Riverfest.

Llano city council members amended the city’s water conservation and drought contingency plan on Monday night, and the city moved into Stage 3 of water restrictions on Tuesday. Stage 3 water restrictions go into place when the 7-day average flow of the Llano River is less than 21 cubic feet per second (cfs).

Binky Morgan leads the Kids Parade along the wet pathway and to the trail at Badu Park at Saturday’s Rock’N Riverfest.

July 4 in Llano started pretty typical for this time of year, a normal hot, muggy morning, the streets were empty early on except for a few joggers and walkers doing their daily routines. Flags that had been placed around the courthouse square were waving in the warm breeze, others adorned the sidewalks in front of shops, and store fronts were welcoming with their show of American pride.

Not many teenagers in a rural community in Texas get to be on a magazine cover, but 18 football Jackets did because of an idea hatched by Dave Campbell’s Texas Football magazine, the absolute first word on the gridiron sport in high schools in the state. “I was contacted by Texas Football,” Athletic Director Matt Green told me, and I referred {the caller} to Kevin Kelso of the Booster Club.

Elmon Bill Stewart passed away Tuesday, July 3, 2018 in Llano, Texas at the age of 77. He was born on October 12, 1940, in Llano at the county’s first hospital, then located on the Courthouse Square, to David and Willie Lee (Talley) Stewart. Bill grew up in Llano, graduating high school in 1959.