The Texas Book Festival has awarded the Mason Co. M. Beven Eckert Memorial Library a $2,500 grant. This grant will help enhance the library’s current books on CD collection. The library experiences quite a demand for audiobooks and provides them in both downloadable and CD formats. The grant will allow the library to purchase current best sellers that will rejuvenate the aging collection.
Laura Bush, a former librarian and an ardent advocate of literacy, founded The Texas Book Festival in 199 ...
If you’ve driven by the Mason Industrial Park in Mason recently, you might have noticed dirt moving as Central Texas Electric Co-op begins the process of relocating our Mason branch office.
Members near our Fredericksburg office may have seen work beginning of expanding our Gillespie County operations facility.
Over the course of the next year, construction crews will be working to develop a brand new facility on 10 acres at 1881 East State Highway 29 in Mason and doubling the size of our ope ...
Baltimore, MD (January 16, 2016) - Artist Danny Kamerath (formerly of Kerrville and now Mason) has been selected as a winner in the 2016 NICHE Awards for his piece entitled "Where Mary Hids Her Woes" in the Furniture: Cabinetry category.
Only 180 entries out of more than 1,600 submissions were named as finalists in this year's competition.
The Fredericksburg Chorale under the direction of Mark Hierholzer will present Johann Sebastian Bach’s Mass in B minor on Saturday, May 7 at 3 PM. The performance will take place at the Mansefeldt Sheep Barn, 1532 Cherry Spring Road. The performance will be accompanied by Hierholzer on the piano and Sheila Kraus on flute.
Bach’s B minor Mass, completed in 1749, just a year before his death, is considered to be perhaps the greatest musical achievement of Western culture.
The Fine Arts Association of the Hill Country is gearing up for their annual Art Show and Gala, to be held at the Eckert Center in Mason, Friday, May 6 and Saturday, May 7. The Gala will take place from 5:00 to 8:00 p.m. on Friday evening, May 6. Refreshments and wine will be served, along with music and dancing.
Member artists from this organization covering the northwestern four counties of the Hill Country will display their work.
Mason, Texas: Mason County Habitat for Humanity formally dedicated its 15th home on Friday, April 15th at 2 p.m.
Yes, they have done it again and in record time. This year’s Habitat Partner and new home owner is Stephanie Martinez, a preschool teacher and assistant Director at Steady Steps. Ms. Martinez and her family received the keys to their new home in a tearful, but very joyful, ceremony attended by about sixty friends and community members.
It is obvious that Ms.
When: Saturday, April 30th
Time: Registration starts 10 AM / Lunch 12:30
Where: Hext School House, Hext Texas
Want More Info?: Sent email to [email protected] or call
Loma Surber 325-206-0603 or Terri McWilliams 210-275-5657
FRIDAY
10 AM Volunteers meet at the Hext school to clean up the building!
We will hang up the Wall of Memories Frame that will hold all the photos our members that bring their 8x10” photos of Hext loved ones and great photos of Old Hext.
6 PM Camp Fire Social!
Come arou ...
The Hill Country Astronomers (HCA) will meet at 6:30 p.m., Monday, May 2, at the Hill Country University Center, 2818 East US Hwy 290 in Fredericksburg.
Mark Ward, club vice-president, will present a program on the upcoming Mercury transit to occur on May 9th. The program will include tips on how to safely observe and photograph the sun and phenomena such as planetary transits.
Discover how artists see and interpret the beautiful Texas Hill Country at the juried Exhibit and Sale, Hill Country Visions at the Llano Fine Art Guild & Gallery April 15th- 30th. This juried Art Exhibition and Sale showcases over 45 works of art in oil painting, acrylic painting, digital painting, mixed media, ceramics, and fabric needle sculpture.
Featuring the work of Annette Bennett, Carole Boyd, James Edscorn, Sylvia Ewing, Lynda Hallmark Gammage, Karen Johnson, Ira Kennedy, Jean King ...
On the 1st of May, we celebrate Loyalty Day. The Mason VFW post 8554 will have a ceremony on the 3rd at 1:30 p.m. to remember this date in our history.
On the 8th of May, we remember the V-E day . This is the victory over the Axis powers in Europe during World War II.
Mason VFW Post 8554 will have a rememberance on the 10th at 1:30 p.m .
