Memorial Day is a day to honor those that gave the ultimate sacrifice while serving in the armed forces of the United States of America. In Llano, those men and women were honored with a ceremony at the American Legion Post 370, with flags and wreaths on the courthouse square, and flag displays around the town.
What started six years ago as the kick off to the annual Blue Bell Bluegrass festival held each year on Memorial Day weekend, the Taste of Llano has been a standalone event the past two years.
The Llano Chamber of Commerce has kept it alive as a fundraiser for Llano Meals on Wheels and the Llano Food Pantry.
Girls in Llano County will soon have another activity in the summer. The YWCA of Austin will host weekly “Girls Group” meetings in both Llano and Kingsland. The weekly activities are designed for girls in the sixth through the 12th grades, and are being promoted as a way to both learn and have fun.
Chloe Ropner, Generation YW Youth Specialist for the YWCA, has been working with Llano ISD students for the past half year, and said there is a need for summer activities for girls.
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Officers with the Llano Police Department and the Llano County Sheriff’s Office were dispatched to Stonewalls Pizza Wings & Things, at 109 W. Main Street in Llano, in reference to a burglary in progress at approximately 12:50 a.m. on May 25.
Officers found a suspect identified as Robert Sutton, 29, of Llano, who was down due to a single gunshot wound.
Veterans were honored with “Quilts of Valor” presented Saturday at an Armed Forces Day ceremony, which was sponsored by the Llano Tea Party. The Llano chapter of the Quilts of Valor has presented 182 quilts since 2013, while 159,000 have presented nationally since 2003. The quilt is given as a thank you to the veteran, and to honor their service, sacrifice and courage.
Thanks to a little “elephant snot,” the Texas Centennial Marker along Hwy. 71 commemorating the Packsaddle Mountain battle has been restored. Restorationists applied the chemical graffiti remover, known as “elephant snot,” on the monument Monday night. They washed it off Tuesday morning as the graffiti dripped to the ground, and after a little more cleaning, the monument looked good as new.
The monument was one of seven reported vandalized in February in this general area, said Bob ...
One day a year, the nation sets aside a special day to honor those who made the supreme sacrifice while serving in the Armed Forces of the United States. Frank Griggs Post 370 of the American Legion will host a short, 30-minue memorial ceremony at 10 a.m. on Monday, May 29, at the post in Llano.
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If it hadn’t been for a bet she made with her father, McKenzie Cockerham might not be the valedictorian for the Llano High School Class of 2017.
Cockerham, who grew up in Llano, moved to Wimberley for ninth grade. Though she liked the school, she realized how special her Llano friends were, how much they meant to her, and that she wanted to graduate with them.
Evan Wheeler, trombone-playing band member, Eagle Scout and all-around good guy, is heading off to Texas A&M University this fall. Wheeler is the salutatorian for the LHS Class of 2017.
As a Llano High student, he thoroughly enjoyed courses in world history, geography and U.S. history with Jimmy Freeman, and government and economics courses with Jil Dillard.
The Buchanan Volunteer Fire Department will purchase equipment to safely and quickly refill firefighter air tanks with the help of a $24,000 community development grant from the Lower Colorado River Authority.
Thieves broke into the fire station in January and damaged or destroyed a large amount of equipment, including the air compressor used to refill the air tanks firefighters use when responding to hazards.
The Fire Department will use the grant to buy a new compressor, a station that can fi ...
