Ever since I was a young lad, I have had a competitive spirit. Quite frankly, I like to win at everything I do. After all, who doesn’t.
Being married has accelerated that competitive spirit, sometimes to my personal detriment. Overall, it has been a rather good run and the Gracious Mistress of the Parsonage and I just celebrated another wedding anniversary.
In mid-September, Hill Country Memorial will open a convenient care center called Go Clinic at 1031 S. State Hwy. 16 across from the hospital.
The new Go Clinic will offer quick and convenient care without a trip to the emergency room. The clinic will provide non-emergent care for a variety of conditions, including colds and flu, allergies and asthma, fever, minor work and sports injuries, skin problems, insect stings and general illnesses.
Go Clinic will be open seven days a week from 12-8 p.m ...
It may not have been “all good,” but enough was plenty good, as the Llano Yellow Jackets unveiled new faces, new turf, a new result at home, new, dizzying defensive stats, and SportsCenter-esque highlights to Rock, Paper, and Scissor Bangs, 41-12, to even their record at 1-1. It was the first win at Llano Stadium since the 2013 season.
“A feel good night,” said head coach Craig Slaughter, who may have felt the pressure of not just winning, September 4, but winning big in the unusual rol ...
Will Deflategate ever end? Will people like the man wearing the byline ever hush about this? Maybe not.
Tom Brady adds this latest ruling of tossing out the four-game suspension to his four Super Bowl rings. He can wear one now symbolizing the Scales of Justice—or, better yet, possibly just a scale.
I’ll never claim to know if Brady or the Patriots poked holes in footballs to help them grasp a lightweight pigskin, so they could win another heavyweight championship.
I know this, though: what ...
Marble Falls was an innocent bystander—the team and the town—but it was the venue for a horrific incident that now resides in the hands of: the San Antonio John Jay school, its school district, the UIL high school governing body, two boys accused of the mugging almost everyone has seen on the internet, and the victim, a referee at the September 4 football game at Mustang Stadium.
“I showed it {the video} to the {Llano} kids,” Jackets’ head coach Craig Slaughter told me Labor Day morni ...
The Lady JV volleyball team was home this week for a rare double performance for the Llano faithful. On September 1, they took on the visiting Billies from Fredericksburg and on Friday the Harker Heights Knights.
Fredericksburg brought in a team that was just a little too much for the Lady Jackets to handle, dominating from the first serve.
At the net, the Lady Billies were just as dominant, but Llano won some battles.
Freshman Kendall Wenzel muscled the ball past a Fredericksburg defender in t ...
A fire that burned through northeast Mason County last week ended up consuming 9000+ acres before finally being brought under control early Sunday morning.
The fire began with a woodpecker and a transformer near Eaton Cemetery Road. The Mason Volunteer Fire Department soon was joined by fire crews from all the neighboring communities and counties, as well as the Mason County Road Department and the Texas Forest Service.
Containment on the south end of the fire was centered around Eato ...
At a special meeting Monday the Llano ISD Board of Trustees discussed and passed a budget and a tax rate for fiscal year 2015-2016.
Several meetings and workshops have been held in previous months to discuss and iron out the details of the budget. The public was invited to the hearings Monday and ample opportunity was offered to ask questions, get explanations, and give input.
For more than 105 years, the 4-H Program of Texas has been engaging youth in activities that help develop skills for a lifetime. These skills range from communication to community service and from goal setting to leadership. Regardless of the skill learned, the benefits of participating is priceless.
The 4-H Program is a nationwide youth development program with more than 6.5 million youth involved annually. Administered in Texas by the A&M AgriLife Extension Service of th ...
Make plans now to spend ALL day at the Llano Library on Saturday, October 3 for the Author Extravaganza and Fair – an all-day, free literary event. There will be authors set up inside and outside the library for book sales and signing, plus a full schedule of authors speaking.
