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.
Chris Hamm (LHS class of 1999), son of Ray and Patricia Hamm of Llano, brings in a group of firefighters once a season for a weekend hunt. Pictured front left is Timothy Sandavol and front right is Mike Lageshaur. Pictured, back row, from left, are: Jeff Kendall, Jack Branton, Kaleb Kaemmerling, Perry Kaemmerling, Corey Ogle, Brodie Ogle, Chris Hamm and Brek Clendenin.
The Llano Special Olympians competed in a three-day Area 13 Bowling Competition with over 1,300 athletes in Austin from Nov. 3-5.
Llano was well represented with nine students participating in every age group. The athletes trained for two months beginning in September.
This year the Yellow Jacket team took home four gold medals from Selena Blaise, James Burke, Jake Yocum, and Angelo Crofts.
Bronze medals were earned by Mary Shaffer, Mitch Dunn, Landon Larson and Meloni Lamar.
Indoor football has arrived on the Llano High campus. “It’s a site to behold,” said Superintendent Mac Edwards.
It is a beauty. What? Well, no, it’s not exactly for football games, but practice in bad weather. The other sports can use it, too, plus the band, drill and dance teams, and maybe one-act players who are rehearsing “Guts on the Gridiron.”
This is all about the Multi-Purpose Facility, located between the student parking lot and the ball diamonds and football practice ...
The Llano City Council handled mostly routine items at Monday’s meeting.
The council discussed at length whether to allow a manufactured home that is 25 years old at 802 W. Houston Street by use of a specific use permit. The property is in a SF4 (single family 4) district.
At issue is an ordinance which limits the placement of manufactured homes in most circumstances.
Several Veterans Day celebrations are set for Llano County this week. They are as follows:
Friday at 10 a.m.
Llano Elementary School will hold a Veterans Day tribute titled “Our History, Our Legacy” at the Llano High School Auditorium.
The tribute will include music performed by Llano Elementary students and oral histories of local veterans.
Llano’s population nearly doubled this weekend as deer season officially opened on Saturday.
By noon Thursday, the streets of Llano were filled with trucks, trailers with 4-wheelers, and the color of the day was camo. On Friday, the Llano Chamber of Commerce welcomed approximately 500 hunters to the Visitor Center. “We don’t have the exact head count yet, but we are estimating close to 500.
Galveston resident Bob Johnson suffered a massive heart attack Saturday morning while gold prospecting with friends and family on the Llano River. Bob was a member of the Round Rock Chapter of the Gold Prospectors Association of America, which was in Llano for one of its twice-annual campout and prospecting trips when the incident occurred.
