Candidates for the May 6 municipal and school board elections are set. The City of Llano will have a contested election for mayor and two council seats, while there is only one candidate for each of the positions for the Llano ISD board of trustees.
Current city councilwoman Gail Lang will face Cheryl Crabtree for the office of mayor.
A free weather spotter training class will be conducted by the National Weather Service (NWS) on Tuesday, Feb. 28, from 5:30-7:30 at the Llano Public Library.
Paul Yura from the local NWS office will deliver this informative class designed to give those attending the essential knowledge and standards necessary to become an official weather spotter for the NWS.
Were you aware that Llano ISD gives a local homestead exemption in addition to the state mandated homestead exemption? We do.
While we are happy to provide that extra “relief” to homeowners, this local exemption has affected the amount we pay back to the state in recapture or “Robin Hood.” As the vast majority of you are aware, Llano ISD is a “property rich” district and must give approximately 50 percent of our property tax collections to the state each year.
Llano ISD has paid rec ...
Kristie and Allen Hopson of Llano show off their winnings from the Castell General Store’s annual chili cook-off held Saturday. They finished first in a field of 18 teams, which came from as far as Houston.
All but one local municipality posted increases in sales tax remittances distributed in February 2017 over receipts received in February 2016, bucking the statewide decline in the average sales tax revenues distributed this month to Texas cities.
The City of Horseshoe Bay received $93,001 in sales tax remittances in February, a 25.66 percent increase over the $74,007 it received for the same period last year.
There’s gold in the Llano River, and Kevin Green is just the guy who wants to help you find it. Green, the secretary of the Round Rock chapter of the Gold Prospectors Association of America, was one of the many vendors in town Saturday for the Texas Prospectors Get-to-Gather at the Llano County Community Center.
Even though there is gold and other minerals to be found in the river, Green said you have to work at it to find them.
“For the most part, the gold that is in this river is fin ...
LaVina Mitchell was an active 46-year old almost a dozen years ago when she suffered a major stroke. She was in a coma for four days and then spent another 42 days in the hospital learning to do the simplest things, such as breathing, swallowing and eating. Mitchell still suffers from Aphasia and Apraxia, which means she cannot speak even a short sentence or even write.
But despite it all, Mitchell’s beaming smile and courageous determination gave her a big honor last Sunday -- a crown o ...
“I have a martini shaker and I am not afraid to use it,” a line from the Llano Community Theatre’s production of the “Dixie Swim Club,” which was performed Friday and Saturday at the Lantex Theater.
The play is a Jones, Hope, Wooten comedy featuring five friends that meet every summer at the same guest cottage.
CeCe Overstreet, center, performs “Ice Ice Baby” at Project Graduation’s Valentine Gala Saturday night at Llano High School. Funds raised at the annual event go to Project Graduation activities.
