The Llano High homecoming court is set and the winners will be announced at Friday’s homecoming game against Austin Eastside. Pictured, from left, are: Freshman Duke - Cody Clough, Freshman Duchess - Hanna Snitkin, Sophomore Duke - Kimble Schuessler, Sophomore Duchess - Kennedy Wootan, FFA Representatives - Caleb Cowan and Gerry Rub, FCCLA Representatives - Wade Willis and Sydney Kuene, National Honor Society Representatives Kenzie Johnson and Quint Pincelli, Student Council Representatives ...
A local business is fighting back after a national animal rights organization brought claims against it.
PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) has charged that animals at The Pet Blood Bank in Cherokee are neglected and living in squalid conditions.
However, those who have visited the facility have told a different story.
The Llano City Council looks to have bed and breakfast regulations in place by the new year.
After a lengthy discussion and hearing several public comments, the council voted unanimously at Monday’s regularly scheduled meeting to continue operating by the rules in place for the establishment of bed and breakfasts until new rules could be put in place.
Football moms Jennifer Watson, Stacy Gann, Linda Walling and Becky Dixon are all set to run the LHS flags onto the field Friday night prior to Llano’s game at Burnet. (Photo by Briley Mitchell)
The Llano High School Class of 1957 held its 60th class reunion on Saturday, Sept. 30, at the Llano ISD Community Building. Many of the attendees started first grade together in 1946 and graduated together in 1957. Pictured are graduates and their spouses. Front row: Leonard (Alexander) Hodon, Movita Harlan, Sherry (Ratliff) Fain, Martha (Staedtler) Porch, Janell (Bush) Cowan, Dolores (Henderson) Raines, Millie (Pechacek) Welch, Mary Wright, and Duncan Wright.
For over 25 years, See You at the Pole has been about one simple act—prayer. SYATP is still about students uniting themselves in prayer before God interceding for their generation.
It is held annually on the last Wednesday morning in September. In Llano, it is at the junior high school and high school, at 7:20 a.m.
September 1967. Lyndon Baines Johnson was president. The Vietnam War raged on. The ship Queen Mary arrives in Southampton in England on its last transatlantic crossing.
And in Llano, Myrtle Oestreich and Lester Inman opened a barbecue restaurant “in a small red building with sawdust on the floors.”
Fifty years later, Oestreich and her husband, Horace, are retiring after a half century in the business.
The Llano County Commissioners declined to support a resolution in formal opposition to a rock and concrete crushing plant that would be located in Burnet County.
The measure failed by a 2-3 vote, with commissioners Jerry Don Moss, Linda Raschke and Mike Sandoval voting against it.
Asphalt, Inc., has submitted an air quality permit to the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality to put in a rock and concrete crushing plant near the intersection of Hwy.
Senior girls cheer each other on in a demonstration of the football boys working out during a skit in last Friday’s pep rally. Pictured from left are Courtney Inman, Abbey Bentle, Ashten Altizer and Elania Keeney.
A man who in March landed a plane with more than 200 pounds of marijuana in it at the Llano airport was sentenced last Friday in federal court in Austin.
Wayne Douglas Brunet, 65, was sentenced Friday to 37 months in federal prison for possession with intent to distribute between 50 and 100 kilograms of marijuana.
In addition to the prison term, U.S.
