Blanco County Association of Retired Educators (BCARE) second vice president Mary Nabers and treasurer Jan Booth delivered goodie bags to Blanco campuses and central office on May 24.
Nabers was a teacher for over 35 years, 18 at Blanco High School. At each location former students greeted Nabers enthusiastically with love and respect.
Among the former students was Allison Dowdy, administrative assistant to Blanco Elementary school principal Jowie Walker.
On May 20, 2021, the City of Blanco Planning and Zoning Commission held its first of two town hall meetings to unveil the new proposed zoning map. The town hall took place at the Old Blanco County Courthouse. The next town hall will take place at the Gem of the Hills at 5:30 p.m.
A thesaurus full of adjectives could be used to describe what has been an interesting school year for all of Blanco High School’s seniors, but graduation means even more for one of those teens who is recovering from injuries caused by a major car accident that occurred last year.
“She shouldn’t be alive, so the fact that she’s been able to return to school and make good grades is remarkable,” said Christi Giese, mother of Madelynn Giese.
It was a bright and sunny Friday afternoo ...
Blanco County is in good financial shape, according to its annual audit issued by Neffendorf & Blocker, P.C. of Fredericksburg.
The county commissioners were told at Tuesday’s meeting that its audit received an unqualified opinion, which means the firm found that the county’s financial statements are fairly and accurately represented for the fiscal year ending Sept.
Blanco County’s unemployment rate continues to lead the nine-county Workforce Solutions Rural Capital Area in numbers released late last week.
Blanco County’s unemployment rate fell to 3.6 percent for April and is the only county in the region below 4 percent. The Blanco County unemployment rate was 4.1 percent for March.
The state’s unemployment rate for April was 6.3 percent, while it is 5.7 percent nationally.
Blanco Coalition on Awareness, Prevention and Treatment of Substance Abuse (CoAPT) met May 17 to continue work on its grant application.
Members of CoAPT broke into groups to review the grant application, and to make edits to the narrative and abstract. The narrative is a 15-page document that tells how and why Blanco CoAPT was founded, and gives details on the organization’s activities since its founding.
Blanco CoAPT had its beginnings in 2013 “as a result of wide spread drug use at ...
The Rotary Club of Blanco County is proud to present the Joe Garcia Memorial Golf Tournament on June at Vaaler Creek Golf Club, 228 Jeff Vaughn in Blanco. Tee-time is at noon.
There will be a silent auction in conjunction with the fundraising tournament. At the silent auction, there’s much to choose from in the way of gift certificates, gift baskets, clothing, and famous local artist renderings, prints and paintings.
The end of the school year is a super busy time for teachers, students and parents. There are classroom parties, final exams, award ceremonies, and graduation celebrations.
This is an exciting time for the Blanco High School Seniors whose adult lives are just beginning. High school graduation is a significant milestone for seniors as well as their parents.
Officials at Blanco Independent School District have been relying on data to make tough decisions during this school year’s coronavirus rollercoaster ride and it will not be any different when it comes to next school year.
“Throughout the school year, we used data to help make our decisions and things seemed to fall into place for us,” said BISD Superintendent Clay Rosenbaum.
The City of Blanco will receive a hefty amount of funds from federal government programs.
The city will receive $430,000 from the American Rescue Plan Act and $85,000 from the Cares Act, said city administrator Will Daves at the May 11 city council meeting.
Daves told members of the council that the city should receive half of the $430,000 American Rescue Plan Act funds “sometime this week.” The other half should be received during the next 12 months, he added.
“There’s still a ...
