The Llano County Democratic Club is gearing up for the 2020 Elections and will hold its monthly business meeting on Tuesday, September 24, at the Kingsland Library, 125 W. Polk. A new check-in time is 11:00 a.m. with a light lunch, followed by guest speaker, Llano County Elections Administrator Cindy Ware.
Ware will demonstrate the new voting equipment, which will be utilized beginning with the November 5, 2019 Constitutional Amendment elections.
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has approved the Lower Colorado River Authority’s Transmission Services Corporation’s (LCRA TSC) Habitat Conservation Plan (HCP) and associated Incidental Take Permit (ITP). The HCP is designed to minimize potential impacts of power transmission line construction and maintenance across 241 Texas counties on 22 federally endangered species of birds, reptiles, amphibians, invertebrates and a mammal, and one unlisted lizard species.
LCRA TSC’s plan take ...
Hill Country Community Theatre opens its 2019-20 season with the World Première of the new musical comedy More Senior Moments, book, music and lyrics by Linda Kaufman.
This sequel to Senior Moments, produced by HCCT in 2017, is a series of rollicking musical vignettes dealing with aging. Growing older has many facets and can be uproarious at times and deeply moving at others.
The Friends of the Red Top Jail held a meeting last Friday at the Llano Library.
Kim Webb started the meeting off with a poem about the Jail, written by P.J. Meltabarger. She then brought the meeting to order, covered the minutes of the previous meeting, and reviewed the Red Top financial statements.
Next on the agenda: bylaws.
By Llano County Elections Administrator Cindy Ware
Llano County has received its new voting system, the Hart Verity Duo, just in time for implementation during the 2019 November 5 Constitutional Amendment Election.
The equipment is manufactured in Pflugerville, Texas and sold nationwide. This is a hybrid system that combines an electronic ballot marking device with a voter verifiable paper trail (VVPT). Voters will make their selection on an electronic device and receive a hard copy receipt with their selections listed for their review. O ...
The 10th Annual Llano Wild Game Dinner will be held on Saturday, September 7, at 6:00 p.m. at the John L. Kuykendall Event Center at 220 Ranch Road 152, Llano.
We have dinner and raffle tickets available at the Llano County Texas AgriLife Extension office. Raffle tickets are $5 each and dinner tickets are $20 each.
Llano County Historical Commission to Host Rural Schools Tour
Are you interested in historic preservation sites in Llano County? Are you interested in the history of education in Llano County? Do you enjoy visiting one-room school houses? If you answered “yes” to any of these, then you will be interested in the upcoming Rural Schools Tour offered by the Llano County Historical Commission.
There are eight remaining rural school buildings that have been lovingly restored and re-purposed ...
Jill Parson and Garrett Vail were united in marriage at 6:00 pm. Saturday, June 22, 2019, at the First Baptist Church of Llano, Texas with Blake Herridge officiating.
The bride is the daughter of Gary and Gale Parson of Llano and the granddaughter of Ada Herridge of Fredericksburg.
Jill is a 2009 graduate of Llano High School and earned a Bachelor of Science from the University of Mary Hardin-Baylor in Belton, Texas.
The leaders of the Llano Woman’s Culture Club met recently to discuss plans for their new year. The purpose of the club is to support educational and charitable initiatives in the community. Each year the club members organize fundraisers to make donations towards such initiatives. The two main fundraising efforts this year are the Christmas Home Tour and The Old Bag Luncheon.
The Christmas Home Tour will be on December 7, 2019 and this year there will be a unique opportunity to see ...
Two interesting things happened recently—a couple and their two-year-old were traveling from Amarillo and needed a place to stop and stretch their legs. They didn’t know where a park is in Llano, but they saw the library sign and decided to stop here. They were so pleasantly surprised by our Children’s Area and how welcoming and friendly our library is.
