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The City of Llano got a clean audit for the previous fiscal year during Monday’s regularly scheduled council meeting. Keith Neffendorff, of Neffendorff and Knopp company, told the council he gave them a clean opinion, which is “the best you can get.” He said the city’s financial statements were presented fairly for the 2015-16 fiscal year, which ended Sept.
Coming to Llano for the second time in less than a year, the Eagles Tribute Band, Already Gone, performed at the Lantex Theater on Saturday night to a packed crowd. The band from Houston has a huge following, with close to 50 coming from their hometown, along with folks from Hutchison, Kan., Lubbock, Austin, and of course Llano.
Llano County is honored to have a large number of men who qualify as Texas Rangers. A few were in regular Ranger companies under such notables as Capt. John Coffee (Jack) Hayes, J. Gillespie, Sul Ross, Alexander (Buck) Roberts, and Daniel F. Roberts. Many of the earliest settlers in this area served under Capt.
Crawfish Open draws newcomers, returnees
It has come and gone, the 28th Annual Llano Crawfish Open, with its crowds, the mudbugs, the barbecue, the music, and all the fun that comes with it. It began on early Friday morning, after a year of planning, with cooks boiling the sought-after crawfish, vendors opening their booths, and musicians taking the stage at Robinson Park.
The Llano County Commissioners continued with changes to the library system at Monday’s regularly called meeting. After voting last week to eliminate the director position and distribute its responsibility to the three library managers, the commissioners voted this week to officially give the individual library managers at Llano, Kingsland and Buchanan Dam more responsibility.
Llano High School student Sydney Kuehne qualified for the second time to compete at the national level with her FCCLA project focusing on women in crisis. Family, Career and Community Leaders of America (FCCLA) is a student-led leadership organization in which students create projects designed to make them better leaders and to then use those projects in competition at the regional, state and nationwide levels.
Not many students choose to spend their weekends taking tests, but for Llano High School senior Evan Wheeler, it’s his chosen University Interscholastic League (UIL) competition. Wheeler, son of James and Melinda Wheeler, not only competes, but excels at academic contests and recently placed fourth at the state competition in his chosen category of current issues and events. In order to compete at the state level, Wheeler had to qualify at first the district and then again at the regional lev ...
Llano seniors and educators were recognized on Thursday night at the Masonic Lodge. Those awarded and their particular awards were: Cameron Hall, scholarship; Evan Wheeler, Mirabeau B. Lamar Award; McKenzie Cockerham, scholarship; Kyra Hazel, scholarship; Katie Yount, scholarship; Madison Dotson, scholarship; and educator Mary Ellen Halamicek, Mirabeau B. Lamar Award. Mirabeau Lamar was a Mason and was also known for his work that resulted in the State of Texas setting up a public school s ...
Kyle Park performs Saturday night at the Llano Crawfish Open before a more than packed crowd.
Walker Lockhart shows off the golden egg that had the winning bicycle paper in it at Saturday's Easter egg hunt at Llano Nursing and Rehab. He is pictured with his mom, Victoria.

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