Dumping continues to hamper operations at Llano Recycling Opportunities.
The non-profit agency, which helps employ adults with developmental disabilities while also dealing with recycling efforts, has to continually deal with the problem, said Connie Hashaw. A couch and mattress were dumped at LRO this week.
When someone leaves something at the center that cannot be recycled, the LRO must pay for it to be put in the landfill.
Everyone is invited to celebrate the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States of America starting at 11:45 a.m. on Saturday, July 2, at Robinson Park in Llano.
The event will start just before noon with a presentation of the colors by the Chariots of the Hills motorcycle club, followed by Mckenzie Jones singing the national anthem.
I have enjoyed the privilege of serving you as your County Judge, and as we begin the 2017 Llano County budget process, I want to have a discussion with you, the taxpayers, on the outlook for 2017.
My core belief is that government which is limited, efficient, and transparent is best.
The Llano County Commissioners talked about a potential burn ban and more at a less than 40-minute meeting held Monday morning.
The commissioners discussed reinstating the county-wide burn ban, but ultimately voted unanimously to table the item.
Precinct 1 Commissioner Peter Jones said some concerns were mentioned to him about the use of fireworks in unincorporated areas, since there has not been much rain this month.
There will not be an independent candidate on the ballot for sheriff in Llano County in the November general election.
Cindy Ware, county elections administrator, said the deadline for an independent candidate to file with enough signatures has passed, and no one has filed. The deadline to file was June 23 with valid signatures from 351 registered voters who did not vote in the Republican or Democratic party primaries or runoff elections.
Ware said she spoke with Robert Smith, who declared his ...
Four candidates will interview for the vacant Llano city manager’s position on July 7.
The four candidates to be interviewed are Sherry Roberts, Martin Mangum, Scott Edmonson and David Denman.
Roberts has more than a decade and a half experience in city government, according to her LinkedIn page. She began as a bookkeeper for the City of Gladewater and was there from 2000 to 2008.
Last Wednesday afternoon below the dam just east of Badu Park, tragedy hit a family fishing the waters of the Llano River.
Victoria resident Brian Holmberg, 52, and his daughter, Alexis, were visiting family in Llano and enjoying a day on the river. At some point, Alexis ended up in the water below the dam.
Fighting various kinds of fires is something Ervin Light has been doing most of his life.
Light became a firefighter when he left school early to enter the military during the Vietnam War, following in the footsteps of his father, who served on the Llano Volunteer Fire Department. Later in life, he became a pastor, and now describes his work as trying to keep people out of the eternal fire.
Light was born in Llano, just above the location Stonewalls once occupied at the corner of Main Street (R ...
