The Blanco Planning and Zoning Commission approved a variance for signage for the city’s historic preservation committee at Monday’s meeting.
Rudy Nino, historic preservation officer for the City of Blanco, told commissioners the Blanco Historic Preservation Commission would like to hang four banners near the edges of the courthouse square to invite tourists and passers-by to visit the square.
RK Seals lived on the east coast for a majority of his life. The P&Z commissioner earned his PhD in aerospace engineering from North Carolina State and worked for NASA over 30 years. He spent a majority of his career at the Langley Research Center in Virginia and in Washington, D.C.
A satellite project led him down to the Bandera area.
On June 29, Blanco’s Swiss Lodge motel became the first recipient of night sky friendly outdoor lighting fixtures paid for with Hotel Occupancy Tax (HOT) funds.
The 29 fixtures purchased for the motel were Ellicott Portfolio galvanized, gooseneck wall lanterns, approved as “Good Neighbor Lighting” by the International Dark Sky Association.
Thanks to a lot of hard work done in the last legislative session, Blanco, Johnson City and Dripping Springs received legal authorization to spen ...
COVID-19 cases in Blanco County continue to increase, mirroring trends from across the state of Texas.
Numbers released Tuesday by the Blanco County Department of Emergency Management showed the county with 32 active cases of COVID-19 and 59 cases under investigation, along with eight recoveries. The number of active cases and cases under investigation are a stark increase since the month of June began.
In Blanco County, there were just three active cases and 15 under investigation as of ...
The Blanco City Council approved water and sewer rates last month, which included rate increases in several areas.
On June 9, the city council approved Ordinance No. 2020-O-006 which is related to water and sewer rates. “...the City Council finds that in order to promote a clean, healthy, safe and attractive environment for the citizens of the City of Blanco; and whereas the City of Blanco finds this Ordinance is necessary to promote and to encourage the conservation and preservation of i ...
Blanco County COVID-19 cases are mirroring trends seen recently across the state and nationally, including an increase in coronavirus cases among a younger demographic.
“For confirmed cases from March through May, the average age was 61.5,” said Ben Oakley, Blanco County infectious disease control officer. Oakley is the EMS Chief for Blanco County ESD 2.
“My closets are filling with donations. Why isn’t Good Sam open yet?” This is a call or question heard daily at Blanco Good Samaritan Center.
The answer is straightforward. The Board of Blanco Good Samaritan Center monitors both COVID-19 statistics in Texas and the opinions of its volunteers about safely returning to work.
At its last monthly review on June 17, the center’s board determined that once again neither indicator supported a safe opening of the center for business as us ...
One of the longest ongoing events in Blanco County will see a hiatus of at least one year.
The Blanco County Fair and Rodeo Association board announced Saturday that the annual county fair and rodeo will be canceled for 2020. It was to be the event’s 90th year.
The board cited health and safety concerns, along with current regulations, as reasons to cancel the county fair and rodeo this year.
Blanco County has the lowest unemployment rate in the nine-county Rural Capital Area region, according to information released Friday by the Texas Workforce Commission.
The county’s unemployment rate was 6.1 percent for May 2020. The overall rate in the region for May was 10.6 percent, down from 11.5 percent in April.
The newly appointed Blanco County election administrator has resigned his position.
The county’s election commission accepted the resignation of Robert Sense at the June 18 commission meeting. Sense was hired as election commissioner last month, but was not set to start the position until July.
The county has struggled to fill the position since the previous administrator, Oscar Villarreal, left the job late last fall.
