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Mason’s Scarlet Punchers, those intrepid women “of a certain age,” who absolutely insist on enjoying life to the fullest, are getting out of town! In case that statement conjures up visions of Sheriff Nixon and his trusted deputies escorting us to the city limits, shotguns in hand, dial back the crime channel tv show images to something a little more realistic.
On March 22 at Kerrville Tivy HS, the company of PICNIC advanced to the Area meet. Judges ballots praised the actors for their “commitment to the text and the emotions to the characters” as well as “good ensemble quality.” They were also complimented on being “really grounded and very connected.”
At the awards ceremony, Ethan Powell earned Honorable Mention All Star Cast while Hannah Bishop and Grace Perlichek took away All Star Cast honors for the second time this contest seaso ...
Spring arrived last week and the wildflowers are beginning to color the landscape. The weather is pleasant and soon the trees will bud out and our yards will be green and full of life. The City is also working toward getting some spring projects underway. There should be some tree trimming happening this week to keep our electric lines free of limbs and interference.
Boss Lion Marty Bentson opened the March 19 meeting of the Mason Lions Club by welcoming our guests, Gus Swanson and Alex Villarreal of Austin, grandsons of Lion Jess Irwin, Chip Edmonson of Katemcy, a future new member of the Mason Lions Club, and Remedios Silerio, guest of Ken Cordero.
Boss Lion Bentson then presented awards for bringing in a new member to Lion Chase Smith, Lion Fritz Landers, and Lion Will Lehmberg.
The Boss Lion announced that the Mason Lions Club is performing a comm ...
At their meeting on Monday, March 25, the Mason I.S.D. School Board officially hired Michael McLeod as the Mason Puncher Athletic Director and Head Coach. McLeod replaces Kade Burns who has been hired as the new high school principal.
On March 22 at Kerrville Tivy HS, the company of PICNIC advanced to the Area meet. Judges ballots praised the actors for their “commitment to the text and the emotions to the characters” as well as “good ensemble quality.” They were also complimented on being “really grounded and very connected.”
At the awards ceremony, Ethan Powell earned Honorable Mention All Star Cast while Hannah Bishop and Grace Perlichek took away All Star Cast honors for the second time this contest seaso ...
The Mason Tennis Association will hold a fundraiser this Friday, March 29th, at the tennis courts in conjunction with the high school’s last invitational tennis tournament of the year.
You are encouraged to come out and watch some great tennis on Friday, eat a great lunch, and support Mason tennis at the same time.
The Mason Boys Track and Field competed in the Longhorn Relays in Harper this past weekend. They represented Mason very well and won both the JV and Varsity Boys Division. Here are results from the meet:
JV Boys Team - 1st - 162 points
100 - 4th - Jaden Scantlin - 12.9
5th - James Martin - 13.1
200 - 2nd - Jaden Scantlin - 26.3
3rd - James Martin - 26.8
800 - 3rd - Colby Brown - 2:27.5
6th - Caden McKinney - 2:34.1
1600 - 3rd - Colby Brown - 6:02.8
5th - Caden Mckinney - 6:0 ...
At their meeting on Monday, March 25, the Mason I.S.D. School Board officially hired Michael McLeod as the Mason Puncher Athletic Director and Head Coach. McLeod replaces Kade Burns who has been hired as the new high school principal.
Save the date! The thrift store will have extended hours the last Thursday of the month beginning in March. Mark your calendar for March 28, 2019 to shop 4-7 p.m. Shoppers can register for a drawing of a gift certificate to the thrift store. We appreciate our many customers and hope to see you at our first evening shopping experience.
What do you call a duck who likes to play with balls of yarn, catch mice and drink milk? Duckat, of course! In the spirit of April Fool’s Day, the story on Monday, April 1, is Duckat by Gaelyn Gordon. A child-friendly April Fool’s activity will follow the reading of this week’s selection.
Storytime is held Mondays at 10:30 A.
There once was an old viola that lived in the home of Richard Taylor and Suzie Paris at Blue Mountain Peak Ranch in Mason, Texas. It had been a point of discussion about what to do with the viola- make it into an art piece, maybe a decorative lamp? It had been hanging around in Richard’s family for more than 50 years.
While attending a performance for the Second Annual Mason Chamber Music Festival in 2016, Richard and Suzie were chatting with Bruce Williams, the Artistic Director of the F ...
Sights, Sounds & Taste of Town 6:30 at Lea Lou Co-Op.
Riata Service Organization’s major fundraiser for our county is this weekend. Come out and show your support for our Mason County First Responders who have helped us is so many ways!!
In order to provide more viewing of the Live Auction pieces available for sale at our event; you will have a chance to view the artwork on display at Mason Bank as well as Commercial Bank this week...
On March 22 at Kerrville Tivy HS, the company of PICNIC advanced to the Area meet. Judges ballots praised the actors for their “commitment to the text and the emotions to the characters” as well as “good ensemble quality.” They were also complimented on being “really grounded and very connected.”
At the awards ceremony, Ethan Powell earned Honorable Mention All Star Cast while Hannah Bishop and Grace Perlichek took away All Star Cast honors for the second time this contest seaso ...
In February, 2019, Bill Hart, a Native American Chief gifted this hand-made Cheyenne-Arapaho, peyote Ceremonial Fan to Gene Zesch in Mason, TX.
(When you give a person a gift you will expect something in return of equal or greater value.)
Gene Zesch honored Bill Hart with one of his Cowboy Hats. Therefore, it is the responsibility of Bill as a member of the Cheyenne-Arapahos and the Quapa tribes to give Gene something of equal or greater value in return.
Bill is presenting Gene with thi ...
The Mason Tennis Association will hold a fundraiser this Friday, March 29th, at the tennis courts in conjunction with the high school’s last invitational tennis tournament of the year.
You are encouraged to come out and watch some great tennis on Friday, eat a great lunch, and support Mason tennis at the same time.
All music lovers and church musicians are invited by the Mason Ministerial Alliance to the next 5th Sunday Service of Song, Praise, and Fellowship at 6 PM, this Sunday, March 31, at First Baptist Church, 325 College Avenue. Offerings will go toward the Mason Food Bank. (Performing musicians should arrive about 15 minutes early.)
Mason County teachers who are looking to get their hands dirty, have fun and earn professional development credit this summer are urged to apply today for Texas Farm Bureau’s Summer Agriculture Institute (SAI).
“The Summer Agriculture Institute isn’t like other continuing education courses,” Shannon Worrell, Mason County Farm Bureau president, said.
The Mason County Cancer Benefit would like to present the 2019 fundraiser, Betting on a Cure.
This year’s fundraiser will be held April 27th, 2019, and will include; a fajita dinner, silent auction and a Texas Hold ‘Em tournament. The event will be held at the Mason County Community Building.
The fajita dinner, by Santos Restaurant, will be served at 5:30 p.m.
When: April 16, 2019
Where: Holy Ghost Lutheran Church Fellowship Hall
103 E. San Antonio St.
Fredericksburg, TX 78624
Program: Will discuss final details of the April 27, 2019 Spring Roundup.
Time: Social starts @ 10:00 a.m.
Meeting starts @ 10:30 a.m. till 1:00 p.m.
Cost: $18.00 per person
Contact: Please RSVP to Kitty-Sue Quinn at 512.644.3580 or [email protected] on or before April 10, 2018.
The City of Mason will be holding a General Election for City Commissioner District 4 on Saturday, May 4, 2019. Early Voting will be held at the City Office Building 124 Moody St. Early voting begins Monday, April 22, 2019 and concludes Tuesday, April 30, 2019 hours 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
The flowers are beautiful. We love this season because of all the new life, flowers, baby animals, and the unique green of a mesquite tree when the leaves pop out. The allergies are another story entirely. The mass of pollen has made my allergies go crazy. I will view the flowers with a mask on.
The Lenten Lunch this week is at St.
National Pet Day is April 11, and we’re running a special until April 22 on engraved memorial bricks. For just $35, you can honor these loving members of your family in a special, lasting way. Call the library at 325-347-5446, come by 410 Post Hill Street, or call Wendy Hastings at 325-347-6691.
DVDs:
The Favourite
The Trump Prophecy
Fear the Walking Dead: Season 4
House of Cards: Season 6
All of My Heart: The Wedding
Shakespeare & Hathaway Private Investigators: Seasons 1
T ...
A capacity crowd at the Castell General Store learns about flood forecasting from Greg Waller (left) with the National Weather Service. For more information about this event and other happenings along the Llano River, go to llanoriver.org and sign up to receive the weekly newsletter from the Llano River Watershed Alliance.
A capacity crowd at the Castell General Store learns about flood forecasting from Greg Waller (left) with the National Weather Service. For more information about this event and other happenings along the Llano River, go to llanoriver.org and sign up to receive the weekly newsletter from the Llano River Watershed Alliance.
A capacity crowd at the Castell General Store learns about flood forecasting from Greg Waller (left) with the National Weather Service. For more information about this event and other happenings along the Llano River, go to llanoriver.org and sign up to receive the weekly newsletter from the Llano River Watershed Alliance.
A capacity crowd at the Castell General Store learns about flood forecasting from Greg Waller (left) with the National Weather Service. For more information about this event and other happenings along the Llano River, go to llanoriver.org and sign up to receive the weekly newsletter from the Llano River Watershed Alliance.
"Jazz Sunday" will be leading the worship service Sunday, March 31 at St. Lutheran Church at 10:30 a.m. Rev. Ron Birk will be delivering the sermon. The music group will also be playing Saturday evening at Lea Lou Co-Op.
At their meeting on Monday, March 25, the Mason I.S.D. School Board officially hired Michael McLeod as the Mason Puncher Athletic Director and Head Coach. McLeod replaces Kade Burns who has been hired as the new high school principal.
Offerings to to Mason County Cancer Benefit Fund each Wednesday evening, as St. Paul Lutheran Church continues to invite the community to Lenten suppers at 5:30 p.m. and half hour devotional services at 6:30 p.m. Surprise members of the Mason community will portray two of the 14 traditional stations of the cross each Wednesday up to Holy Week and four on Good Friday.
Effie Lorene Haines Dunlap passed away at her home surrounded by her family on Friday, March 22, at the age of 88.
She was born at home in a small rock house in western Mason County on April 2, 1930. Her parents were Lee Burt Haines Sr. and Effie A. Gray Haines.
Ann Goff, of Mason, passed away on Sunday, March 24, at the age of 76.
Mrs. Goff is survived by a daughter Donna Johnson and husband Billy of Mason, a step-son Mike Goff and two brothers.
Visitation with the family will be Friday, March 29, from 5 to 7 p.m. at Mason Funeral Home.
Mrs.
Offerings to to Mason County Cancer Benefit Fund each Wednesday evening, as St. Paul Lutheran Church continues to invite the community to Lenten suppers at 5:30 p.m. and half hour devotional services at 6:30 p.m. Surprise members of the Mason community will portray two of the 14 traditional stations of the cross each Wednesday up to Holy Week and four on Good Friday.
The Ones Who Came Before...
When we talk about Mason, it's often a very narrow definition of just the people who were here all their lives, or the people who live here now. We talk about our ancestors, we talk about our families and friends, we talk about our contemporaries. But, through the years, there have been many other people who have been part of our community, even if they were here for only a short time.
Last week, I got news that one of those people who were an integral part of ...
Mason’s Scarlet Punchers, those intrepid women “of a certain age,” who absolutely insist on enjoying life to the fullest, are getting out of town! In case that statement conjures up visions of Sheriff Nixon and his trusted deputies escorting us to the city limits, shotguns in hand, dial back the crime channel tv show images to something a little more realistic.
Small towns are disappearing from the American landscape. Today, something like 80% of the state population now live in urban areas (more than double the percentage of a century ago), even though most people say they find little appeal in big city living: too much traffic, the frantic pace of life, alienation from neighbors, high crime rates, etc.
Texas redbud.
Ringing in Spring.
They’re out there.
And Spring is officially here.
If you ever plan to motor west.
Take the highway that’ll show you the best.
Take Texas State Highway 29.
Go west, young man or woman.
A glorious one awaits you near the county line.
From there to Menard it just gets better and better.
They’re mostly on the right.
On the north side of the highway.
Wonder why that is.
Maybe the bar ditch stays wetter (and cooler) than on the south ...
The flowers are beautiful. We love this season because of all the new life, flowers, baby animals, and the unique green of a mesquite tree when the leaves pop out. The allergies are another story entirely. The mass of pollen has made my allergies go crazy. I will view the flowers with a mask on.
The Lenten Lunch this week is at St.
The Adventure Continues…
They met in college at a time of comparative innocence. Father Knows Best was the rage on TV; Ken and Barbie weren’t yet a couple.
The TV show and the famous dolls--one might suggest--were bookends for a real life romance that began 65 years ago on the campus of Hardin-Simmons University in Abilene.
A 1953 graduate of Fort Worth Poly High School, the former Sue Cherry spread her wings at H-SU.
Just the other day
He was born just the other day, during a war that was taking place halfway around the world. Proof, maybe, that life would still go on, that good things happen in a world where so much bad occurs. The beginning of something impossible to understand or describe, something that has to be experienced, lived.
“A boy is a piece of existence quite separate from all things else and deserves a separate chapter in the natural history of man.” ~ Henry Ward Beecher
After a w ...
National Pet Day is April 11, and we’re running a special until April 22 on engraved memorial bricks. For just $35, you can honor these loving members of your family in a special, lasting way. Call the library at 325-347-5446, come by 410 Post Hill Street, or call Wendy Hastings at 325-347-6691.
DVDs:
The Favourite
The Trump Prophecy
Fear the Walking Dead: Season 4
House of Cards: Season 6
All of My Heart: The Wedding
Shakespeare & Hathaway Private Investigators: Seasons 1
T ...
When I wrote my first column awhile back, I promised to recycle some of Daddy’s columns. I have a treasure trove of them and spent an hour reading before deciding on the one to begin with.
Hungry Horace’s Hi-Jinks
By Horace R. Brandenberger
(June 16, 1993)
Unedited
The other day while playing golf with Tom, Dick, and Jerry (really that’s their names) they tried to convince me that I couldn’t possibly become even a fair golfer.
Chess Pie
courtesy: T. Knecht
This is another very old Southern recipe; sort of a variation on the Chess Bars recipe that I will be sharing you. The origin of the name is still shrouded in mystery, but that mystery certainly doesn’t take away the fact that this a very sweet, delicious pie that’s easy to make and will disappear quickly!
Ingredients:
½ cup butter
2 cups white sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
4 eggs
1 tablespoon cornmeal
¼ cup evaporated milk
1 tablespo ...
