Llano’s population nearly doubled this weekend as deer season officially opened on Saturday.
By noon Thursday, the streets of Llano were filled with trucks, trailers with 4-wheelers, and the color of the day was camo. On Friday, the Llano Chamber of Commerce welcomed approximately 500 hunters to the Visitor Center. “We don’t have the exact head count yet, but we are estimating close to 500.
Galveston resident Bob Johnson suffered a massive heart attack Saturday morning while gold prospecting with friends and family on the Llano River. Bob was a member of the Round Rock Chapter of the Gold Prospectors Association of America, which was in Llano for one of its twice-annual campout and prospecting trips when the incident occurred.
ROUND ROCK—A mix of first-timers, old-timers, and plain ol’ meet-the-gut-check-moment timers, ran the Llano girls to a most impressive eighth place in Class 4A in the State Cross Country Championships at Old Settlers Park.
Officially, that was out of sixteen great teams that qualified from four regions, but you must toss in several hundred 4A schools which didn’t make it here in picturesque Palm Valley on the first Saturday in November.
Andy Wright was the only Jacket boy who ran, a ...
The greyhounds housed at the Pet Blood Bank in Cherokee are being transferred into adoption programs under a joint effort by the Texas Greyhound Association, the National Greyhound Association, the American Greyhound Council, the blood bank facility, and several regional adoption groups, including the Greyhound Adoption League of Texas.
Russ Baker, attorney for the Pet Blood Bank, said all greyhounds at the facility will receive medical and dental examinations so that any health issues can ...
In a Facebook post last Thursday, the Llano Police Department announced that an arrest warrant was issued for one of its officers over two months ago and she turned herself two days later.
The post said the department opened an investigation in May on former patrol sergeant Melissa (Lisa) Sloan. The post said Sloan distributed “confidential information to non-law enforcement personnel.”
During the course of the investigation, evidence was gathered that proved Sloan used confidential i ...
Nick is a single guy who makes it a point to visit his grandparents every Sunday in New Jersey. Their house is always hot, their voices are a little loud, and they really want him to get married, but now he has been offered a promotion on the other side of the country.
The stage is set for the latest production by the Llano Community Theatre, in the auditorium of Llano Junior High School.
MANHATTAN, Kan.—Royalty returned to Llano from the American Royal 4-H National Meat Judging Championships on the campus of Kansas State—and the group was wearing Black and Orange. Something new for the Jackets? Not exactly—the third time was no more a charm than the first two titles.
“They’ve done an excellent job,” said veteran head coach and Ag-Science teacher, Joe Dan Tarter.
The county-wide collection event held earlier this month at the east county annex was a huge success, Llano County commissioners were told at Monday’s meeting.
There were 217 vehicles representing 306 households at the event. Kingsland residents had the highest number of vehicles drop off items at 79, followed by Buchanan Dam at 50 and Llano at 35.
