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Annie Verzwyvelt, a Llano native, has been named “Sailor of the month” for the U.S. Naval Hospital in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. She is 19 and attended Llano High School. She has been in the Navy for 10 months, and has been stationed in Guantanamo Bay for the last 4 months.

Robinson Park Lake will soon contain a lot less water. The draining of the lake for the removal of sand and endangered mussels could begin as early as Monday or Tuesday of next week, City Manager Scott Edmonson told the city council on Monday night. It will be refilled by the time Crawfish Open starts in April, at the very latest. In order to gain a permit to allow the lake to be drained for the sand removal, an environmental study was completed, which discovered endangered mussels.

Llano’s Tyler Gann (24) hauls in an interception of a Crystal City pass in Friday’s bi-district playoff game in San Antonio, one of several big defensive plays for the Jackets on the night. Llano fell, 20-14.

C.P. Coker of Kingsland, left, receives the grand prize from Llano News editor John Verser for winning the football pick ‘em contest. Coker won a $200 gift card from Cooper’s Old Style Pit Bar-B-Que. He correctly guessed 136 games over the 12-week contest. See final standings in this week's paper.

The holidays are here in Llano, and they get kicked off tonight with the lighting of the courthouse square in downtown. Over 600 coloring sheets were handed out to Llano Elementary School, Packsaddle Elementary and Llano Christian Academy students in first through third grades. Each grade level had their own sheet, getting progressively more detailed with each grade. Three judges -- a community leader, a retired drama teacher and a professional horse judge -- had the task of choosing two ...

On the “eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month” of 1918. The date was declared a national holiday in many Allied nations, and coincides with Remembrance Day and Veterans Day, which are public holidays. Armistice Day as it was originally called, was a day to celebrate cessation of hostilities on the Western Front of World War I.

Deputies with the Llano County Sheriff’s Office should soon get body cameras. The Llano County Commissioners Court on Monday voted to approve the request from Sheriff Bill Blackburn to purchase the cameras and enter a tazer replacement agreement. The request would allow the sheriff to shift funds from vehicles, purchasing three instead of four this fiscal year, and instead use those funds for body cameras and tazers. “We have some investigator vehicles that are needing replacing, bu ...

No action was taken for the second straight Monday after a closed session related to the municipal judge at a Llano City Council meeting. The council met in a closed session at the Nov. 6 regularly scheduled meeting and met again in closed session for almost an hour and 45 minutes on Monday night.

After being introduced over a year ago, the first annual Commercial Heifer Pair Sale was held at the John L Kuykendall Arena last week. FFA and 4-H participants purchased the heifers in Llano County 16 months ago from established ranches. The kids have accomplished and learned about the beginning stages of a commercial cow/calf operation.

UIL Academic Teams at Llano High School competed Nov. 4 at the Pflugerville Pfall Pfling meet. We would like to congratulate the accounting team for their first place team finish! Returning members and former regional qualifiers are seniors Chance Bailey and Chantalle Barret, who led the team to their victory. Freshman Samantha Allen had a strong contribution to the win on her very first meet.