What a way to kick off a new year in Llano! The 2016 Llano County Junior Livestock Show was a roaring success. Held for the second year at the “still new” John L Kuykendall Event Center, on a beautiful winter day that allowed the doors to be rolled up, the stock show was as good as it can get.
Despite protests from seven Kingsland residents, the Commissioners Court voted to approve moving the Precinct 3 offices from their current location to the East County Annex, located five miles from where the offices are now located.
All three elected officials from Precinct 3 objected to the move, including Commissioner Ron Wilson, who told the court that he felt like ‘they were missing the point.’
Petitions brought to the court included over 300 signatures and a second petition for electro ...
Dr. Mort Kothmann will be giving a lecture on Range Management at the Llano Master Gardeners’ meeting Tuesday, January 21 at 5:30 at the Llano Public Library. The public is welcome to attend.
Mort Kothmann was born and reared on a ranch in eastern Mason County. He attended The Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas, graduating with a BS in Range Management in 1961.
Llano Uplift Archeological Society (LUAS) will be meeting on January 13, 2016 at the Nightengale Archeological Center in Kingsland.
Excavations at the Barnhill #3 Rockshelter in Coryell County have produced an intriguing array of plant remains from a relatively small volume of flotation-processed fill. Finds include corn (probably imported from East Texas), a seed of fiddleleaf tobacco, and some seeds of coreopsis, a plant that was probably used to make a yellow dye.
The Highland Lakes Chapter of Texas Democratic Women (HLDW) will begin the new year with their first monthly luncheon on January 28, at Meadowlakes Country Club. Registration will begin at 11:30 a.m.; lunch will be served as each member and guest is seated, a short business meeting will be called to order about 11:45, and a guest speaker will address the crowd at noon.
Bill Drake, Executive Director of the Marble Falls Boys and Girls Club since 2012, will be the chapter’s first ...
Dear Editor,
Oh, for the times when common sense could be used versus the language of an ambiguous ordinance. Using common sense in interpreting the word air gap would be nice. With 50 or more wells, being on a river, and water catching tanks on the increase in this city, many are going to be unfairly affected.
An air gap has a complicated definition, but the danger of a mud hole getting water back into a water system far exceeds an unattached well. Not so? Attach a wate ...
Dear Editor,
I’m writing about the latest battle in Llano. It seems during the drought all we heard was that we needed to reserve water and collect rain water to use on our yards, flowers, etc. Now we are told it will pollute our water system.
Also, what’s the deal with Mr.
By Amy Grant, RD
Food Service Director
Llano ISD Food Service Department is pleased to announce our new My School Menus™ mobile app available in the iTunes App Store and Google Play. The My School Menus™ app allows parents and students to access nutrition information for the school meal programs direct from their smart phones and tablets.
By Coach Craig Slaughter, Athletic Director
A big thing on the horizon in athletics is our realignment for the 2016-2018 school years. On February 1st, the UIL will release the new alignments that will begin with the next school year. The numbers for each classification were released by the UIL in December.
On Friday, January 8, 2016, Duane Loyd Nobles of Tow, Texas, went home to be with his Lord Jesus Christ at the age of 82. Duane was born on December 18, 1933, in Wink, Texas, to L. Z. “Dick” and Octavia Nobles, and he was the sixth of 12 children.
