Llano ISD student James “Dakota” Wimberly scored a 100 percent on the math portion of the state’s STAAR exam administered to third graders in May.
Dakota also mastered grade level for the reading portion of the test.
Dakota is the son of proud parents, Stephen and Penny Wimberly. The family moved to the Llano district in 2015, and Dakota has attended Packsaddle Elementary.
You don’t have to be a scientist to create art from glass, but you can be.
Llano’s Sheri Zoch, who has owned and operated The Glass Menagerie for about two and a half years, fell into the art of glass while searching for something to exercise the creative part of her brain.
After taking about 15 classes in a variety of art mediums, from drawing to paper making to painting and more, Zoch took a class on glass.
“I took that one (class) and it blew my mind,” she said.
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KINGSLAND—I walked to the First Baptist Church from the Community Center, Saturday morning, August 5, just to kill some time. I was there to cover a soccer team from Haiti.
I entered the church and saw the young players eating breakfast. They all looked normal to me, a bit on the handsome side and lean.
The Llano County Commissioners set a proposed tax rate and budget at Monday’s regularly scheduled meeting. They also called off the county-wide burn ban.
The commissioners unanimously approved a $0.30212 proposed tax rate per $100 valuation for Fiscal Year 2018 with a proposed budget of $15.3 million. The tax rate and budget are not final at this time.
Briley Mitchell has 104 pairs of solar sunglasses, and he hopes you’ll help use them.
Mitchell, executive director at the Llano Chamber of Commerce, welcomes the public to a solar eclipse party from 11:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Monday, Aug. 21, at the chamber and visitors center. The party includes a viewing of the solar eclipse, which is expected to peak about 1 p.m.
It is hard to believe but it is already time for school bells to ring in Llano, with first day jitters for students and instructors alike.
On Friday, the Llano Chamber of Commerce welcomed over 30 new employees to Llano ISD with goodie bags that were filled with information around the area, and with gifts from businesses throughout the town.
Llano ISD and its four schools met the accountability standards as set forth by the Texas Education Agency, it was announced Tuesday.
The agency released that Llano ISD met standards on student achievement, student progress, closing performance gaps and postsecondary readiness.
District-wide, Llano ISD scored 74 with a target score of 60 in student achievement; 33 with a target score of 22 in student progress; 39 with a target score of 28 in closing performance gaps; and 80 with a target ...
A proposed “depopulating” of the Llano County Jail looks to be thwarted for this budget cycle.
About 60 people attended a budget hearing held Monday by the Llano County Commissioners Court in which the issue was discussed for approximately two hours. The overwhelming sentiment among those present was to abandon the proposal and keep the jail open.
Leon Rausch (center) performs at the Llano Country Opry on Saturday night. The event was billed as a celebration of Rausch’s birthday (he turns 90 this fall), and he received a proclamation in his honor by Mayor Gail Lang. Rausch is widely known as the “voice of the Bob Wills Band.
