Residents are invited to “back the blue” at the start of the Aug. 1 Llano city council meeting.
Councilor Gail Lang has prepared a short presentation to honor the city’s police officers near the start of the meeting. The public is invited to attend the presentation, which will be held in the first few minutes of the meeting, which starts at 5:30 p.m.
A Kingsland woman was convicted in the death of her husband after a more than week-long trial that ended late Monday night in the Llano County Courthouse.
Kathryn Louise Preston, 47, was sentenced to 45 years in prison and a $10,000 fine in the Aug. 26, 2014, murder of her husband, 23-year old Jose Mario Hernandez.
Scott Edmonson spent his first day as city manager of Mertzon in the sludge pit.
While he hopes he doesn’t have a repeat performance Monday as he opens his tenure as Llano’s city manager, that kind of varied experience is just what he hopes will lead to a success at his new job.
“I just think there are going to be a lot of different issues that come up,” he said.
Although the summer heat has dwindled its numbers from its large opening weekend in May, the Llano Farmers’ market is growing.
Jannie Vaught, who co-founded the local farmers’ market five years ago with Dorris Messer, said that many producers are phasing out for the summer. However, the weekly farmers’ market has grown leaps and bounds since it started out at the library.
“The first couple months were really big,” she said of this year’s market.
The farmers’ market moved to its cu ...
One hundred and thirty-two years ago, after looking around Texas for just the right spot, the Freeman family of Louisiana found what they were looking for in Llano County.
Through the sweat and hard work of generations past, that original country has grown exponentially into the large swath of land in north Llano County commonly known as the Freeman Ranch.
The meat judging program in Llano has had more than its share of success over the years.
The 2016 team qualified for the Western National Roundup to be held in January in Denver, Colo., joining a long line of its predecessors that have qualified for national competitions. In fact, Llano has qualified for a national FFA or 4-H event in 10 of the 16 years that Joe Dan Tarter has been coaching.
“Good kids, good kids,” Tarter said when asked why the program has been able to compete at a h ...
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.
