The Highland Lakes Native Plant Society of Texas is scheduled for Saturday, January 16th at the Marble Falls Library at 1:00 p.m.
The topic is "Texas Milkweed for Monarchs." We have all heard the clamor to plant more milkweed, but is there really a shortage of milkweed in Texas? Many naturalists report seeing a lot of milkweed as they travel across the state.
The Hill Country Science Mill, a regional science center in Johnson City, TX, will host a family-friendly Snow Day on Saturday, January 9th from 11am-1pm. Snow will be delivered to the backyard of the Science Mill to create a winter wonderland in the Texas Hill Country.
Activities will include using a catapult to launch snowballs through targets onto one of the building’s iconic silos, a snow pit for snow art and castle building, snowball throwing with radar speed checks, playing an ice ball ...
Hill Country Memorial announces the schedule for its new support group for stroke survivors, those with mobility issues, multiple sclerosis, Parkinson’s disease, ALS and other neurological conditions.
The “Connect” support group will meet on Dec. 10 from 1:30–2:30 p.m. at the Hill Country Memorial Women’s Pavilion classroom. The group will continue to meet on the second Thursday of each month in that location.
“Anyone with neurological conditions is welcome, including families and c ...
Capital Farm Credit’s Board of Directors approved a $39.9 million cash retirement of allocated equities issued in 2009. Borrowers with loans in 2009 will receive their share of the cash payment in checks mailed this month.
Combined with the $72 million cash patronage paid in March of this year, we will have returned total cash distributions of more than $111.8 million to our members in 2015.
Llano County Commissioners were presented with a draft of the Llano County Transportation and Economic Development Plan, which is the result of a collaborative effort between citizens of Llano County, CAPCOG, TxDOT, the State of Texas, and Texas A&M Transportation Institute.
The study was conducted over the last several months, and the information gathered has been used to analyze Llano County’s economy and transportation situation.
Growth, appeal to industry, and road improvements were a ...
On the same day that Llano native Patty Pfister was honored by the Llano County Commissioners Court for her tireless efforts to fight FEMA to redraw error-filled floodplain maps, she addressed Dale Hoff, FEMA representative, at a public meeting held on Nov. 23.
After Hoff talked attendees through a PowerPoint slide show about the timeline of the appeals process, citizens asked specific questions regarding the mapping of their property within the floodplain.
While Hoff was unable to pinpoint why ...
The Castell School will host an Old Fashioned Christmas Open House on Sunday, December 6, 2015 from 1 - 3 pm. The Castell School will “Deck the Halls” and provide the refreshments, so please come join in for an afternoon of holiday fellowship and fun. The winning silent bid for the beautiful one-of-a-kind hand made quilt by Vera Honig will be announced as well as raffle ticket winners.
Volunteers invited to help
On Saturday, December 5, Keep Kingsland Beautiful will clean up the two-mile stretch of FM 1431 between Kingsland Hills Care Center and the Lake LBJ bridge. All interested volunteers are invited to participate. Please call 830-385-6833 or email [email protected] to let us know you’re coming or if you have questions.
Starting from a meet-up at the corner of 1431 and 2900 at 9:30 a.m., volunteer ...
On November 17, Hill Country Memorial was recognized as a “Top Performer” by The Joint Commission for outstanding performance in surgical care. As the accrediting body for U.S. health care organizations, The Joint Commission analyzed how well hospitals performed across 49 quality measures.
This marks the third consecutive year HCM was recognized among the best hospitals in the nation for quality and safety in surgical care.
NEW YORK & LAKEWAY—This begins as a sports’ story, but that won’t take long.
Jack Crabb is the son of John and Kimberley Crabb of Lakeway, and I’m Kim’s dad.
John and I are huge sports fans, so we had plans for Jack a few hours—maybe a few days—after October 24, 2002.
He did try.
