To the Editor:
It has been a very rewarding experience in working with the relief center for me.
Hearing and seeing the devastation is overwhelming and heart breaking. It amazes me how some people will not take advantage of the services available because they want someone else to get it before they do.
I am talking about folks that lost everything.
A Burnet County jury found Grady Hodge guilty on 16 counts of sexual assault of a child and six counts of indecency with a child by sexual contact and sentenced him to the maximum allowable prison term on each charge. The decision was rendered Wednesday, June 3.
Judge Evan Stubbs presided over the trial in the 424th District Court and ordered Hodge to serve 714 consecutive years in the Institutional Division of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice, effectively ensuring that the 43-year-old ...
Life is so short for some of us. God's Word says "Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. "Honor your father and mother" (this is the first commandment with a promise), "that it may go well with you and that you may live long in the land."
A little girl asked her grandpa if he could make a sound like a frog. Grandpa said, "sure", and then said, "ribbit, ribbit." The little girl ran to grandma and said, "We are finally going to disney world, we are going to disney world!" Grandma said, "What makes you say that?"
Mar 10:29-30 And Jesus answered and said, "Verily I say unto you, There is no man that hath left house, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my sake, and the gospel's, But he shall receive an hundredfold now in this time, houses, and brethren, and sisters, and mothers, and children, and lands, with persecutions; and in the world (age) to come eternal life."
Today we continue our study on the Kingdom of God.
Werner J. Hohenberger, longtime resident of Ponca City, passed away June 3, 2015. He was 96.
A Rosary was be held Friday June 5, 2015, at Trout Funeral Home Chapel and a Mass of Christian Burial was Saturday, June 6, at St. Mary's Catholic Church. Burial followed in Ark City, KS at Hope Cemetery.
BEE CAVE — Managers of the Rainwater Revival school grant program were happily overwhelmed with 13 terrific grant applications from Hill Country schools this year. Though all projects had merit, the three judges made difficult choices and picked six deserving schools, including Blanco Middle School, to receive $1,000 awards each.
"Judging by the quantity and quality of proposals for rainwater catchment and water conservation projects this year, it's clear that teachers and schools are putting ...
The Blanco Elementary School Millionaire Accelerated Readers celebrated their achievement by eating lunch at the Chess Club and watching a book-based movie on Tuesday June 2.
The 29 millionaires each read at least one million words this school year. Six of the fifth grade students read over two million words each.
As you know many of our friends and family in the Blanco, Wimberley and Austin area were deeply affected by the Memorial Day Floods.
There are countless stories of lives lost as well as personal property and houses literally washed away. After hearing the story of a local 70 year old Kindergarten teacher clutching on to her satellite dish for 6 hours before she was rescued, while she watched her partially paralyzed husband be swept away, we knew there was more that we could do than just read an ...
AUSTIN – On May 29, 2015 the Texas Workforce Commission (TWC) began accepting applications for Disaster Unemployment Assistance (DUA) as a result of the Presidential Disaster Declaration (FEMA 4223-DR) for Harris, Hays and Van Zandt counties. The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) amended the notice for DUA on June 6, 2015 to include the following counties: Bastrop, Blanco, Caldwell, Denton, Eastland, Fort Bend, Gaines, Guadalupe, Henderson, Hidalgo, Johnson, Milam, Montague, Navarro, ...
