AUSTIN — Four days before the June 1 end of the 84th regular session of the Texas Legislature, both houses finally agreed after months of deliberation on a state budget for fiscal years 2016 and 2017.
A 10-member conference committee worked out differences between the House and Senate versions of the budget.
To the Editor:
Baker Guns would like to help the citizens of Blanco affected by the recent floods. We're sure the damages were extensive but we are here to help regarding guns. If any guns were damaged, flooded, or submerged in the dirt, it is crucial to clean them before rust sets in.
To the Editor:
My home, along with those of other elderly and disabled citizens, is at the Blanco Senior Apartments on Blanco Avenue. When the big rains came on Memorial Day weekend, water and dirt from a drainage ditch poured into at least five of the apartments. When residents requested cleanup assistance from apartment management, we were told we were on our own – it was our responsibility to clean up the mess, and by inference to replace our soaked carpets and live with wet baseboards ...
Fruity, crisp, clean, uplifting, fresh and enlightening are all adjectives that capture some of the qualities of lavender; however, this amazing flower defies description. Perhaps that is why folks from every corner descend on Blanco each and every year for the Lavender Festival.
The event returns this weekend, June 12-14 on the Blanco Square and Yett Memorial Park.
It is the biggest annual event in town and it isn't any wonder why, says Blanco Chamber of Commerce Executive Director Libbey Aly. ...
Blanco's Flood Assistance Center has moved from the Byers Building on the town square to Trinity Lutheran Church where it will maintain operations, in all likelihood, through the summer, according to Wayne Gosnell, a volunteer assistant to Mayor Bruce Peele.
The assistance center cranked up as fast as flood waters inundated the Blanco River on Memorial Day weekend.
Matt Herden has served the school children of the Blanco Independent School District for many years, but at the opening of the regular school board meeting on Monday, June 8, he said he was stepping down as the board president and would not seek reelection.
"I never intended to stay on the board this long,"
They are called the Texas Intrastate Fire Mutual Aid System (TIFMAS), and most of them are firefighters from all over the Lone Star Sate; however, after seeing the work they have done to clean up Blanco State Park, one might be forgiven if they were mistaken for superheroes.
Mark Stinson, with the Texas Forest Service, said between the work of TIFMAS and two volunteers from the C.L.
It is no secret that Blanco Settlement, the premier RV spot in the region, was among the hardest hit by the Memorial Day weekend flooding event.
They watched as the river rose so quickly that there was no reasonable amount of time for reasonable thinking. Still, no lives were lost, although the damage to the park was extensive.
AUSTIN — Governor Greg Abbott has until June 21 to give bills recently passed by the Texas Legislature his final consideration before signing them, letting them take effect without his signature or vetoing them.
By June 1, the last day of the Legislature's 84th regular session, some 819 House bills and 504 Senate bills earned final passage, plus two House Joint Resolutions and five Senate Joint Resolutions.
As a seventh grader, I played the cornet in my junior high school band in Salt Lake City. The band director, Mr. Beckstead, arranged for the band to attend a young people's concert presented by the Utah Symphony Orchestra which, at that time, was housed in the old historic Mormon Tabernacle downtown.
Our school bus arrived just before the concert was to begin and the only seats remaining were those usually occupied by the world famous Mormon Tabernacle Choir.
