The 2016-17 school year marks the first that Llano High School will be helmed by a female principal, but Principal Jenifer Neatherlin is no stranger to the position.
Neatherlin comes to Llano after two years as principal at Abel Junior High in Midland, a school of 1,000 students. That is double the students she will be responsible for this year.
Welcome back. Hope you were able to struggle along with no football, except for the few bones of NFL, ARENA 3, CFL, FBS, and Pop Warner Live; the Classic Games of the 1940s; Pro Days of Our Lives; Coaches’ Corner, Closet, Club, Classroom, Clipboard...ENOUGH! We get it.
I’d just as soon be in Smithville, August 26, as anywhere else, as the Llano High Jackets open the season against the Tigers.
“The kids are on the brink of playing with full confidence,” declared head coach Craig Slaughte ...
WALL — These Hawks are pretty good. The football Jackets received proof in regular-season losses in 2014 and ’15, and, unofficially, the Class-3A school near San Angelo prevailed in a scrimmage,
August 12.
Not much to live up to from last autumn: a 12-1, regional- semifinalist performance.
“They’re as good as we’ll see all year,” said Llano head coach Craig Slaughter. "Offensively, I wish we had made something happen; ...
They are coaches. They are teachers. And former athletes. One is in Llano; the other is in Marble Falls.
They are sisters.
Jessica Withrow is the first-year head coach of the Mustang volleyball team, while Amy Withrow — five years younger — is in her second year as a Lady Jackets’ assistant.
“Athletics growing up was everything to us,” said Amy, who added that their dad, Jeff, “was one of the best coaches I have ever known.”
Jessica wouldn’t disagree.
Jamie Osbourn, left, and Jennifer Page, right, are with Friend of Extension recipient Marilyn Hale at the 16th Annual Extension Banquet held last Tuesday. Other honorees were: Miiller’s Llano Smokehouse for Friend of 4-H, Jerry Don Moss as Outstanding 4-H Leader, and McKayla Lively as the Silver Star Award winner.
It was a night to recognize the accomplishments of those that volunteer their time to the Llano County Extension Office, held at St. James Lutheran Church in the Schorlemmer Hall. Marilyn Hale, former Llano County Extension Agent, received the Friend of Extension award presented by present County Extension agents Jamie Osbourn and Jennifer Page.
The keynote speaker of the evening was the Director of Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service, Dr.
The Llano Crawfish Open presented funds to local charities on Thursday, which were raised at its annual event this spring. Funds were given to Meals on Wheels, represented by Gwen Brumm; the Llano Food Pantry, represented by Pat Culpepper and Doris Rainwater; New Horizons, represented by Martha Long and Frances Young; Hill Country Childrens’ Advocacy Center, represented by Jane Price; the LYJ Special Olympics Team, represented by Valerie Ozanne; the LHS Backpack Buddies; Hope Haus, represente ...
Donny Carpenter of the Llano Volunteer Fire Department gives Ronald Dexton Saltibus Jr. an up close demonstration of a working fire hose during Thursday as members of the Lutie’s Kids Club at the Lutie Watkins Memorial United Methodist Church visited the fire and police departments in Llano.
Llano ISD schools met the standards for accountability ratings, the Texas Education Agency announced Monday. All four campuses, along with the school district as a whole, met the standards in each of the four categories measured – student achievement, student progress, closing performance gaps and postsecondary readiness.
“It’s still in the very early stages, but we’re certainly happy with how things look at this point,” said David Waters, Llano ISD assistant superintendent.
