It’s not just home gardens that are thriving during the coronavirus shut-down. The gardening business is doing well as many families have started new family traditions of home gardening during the pandemic.
“There’s definitely expanded interest in home gardening,” said Pamela Arnosky, owner of Arnosky Family Farms in Blanco. “I think World War II was the last time people began to cultivate their backyard gardens this much.”
Arnosky said they’ve sold out of many varieties of ...
Mike Green has been a Blanco Planning and Zoning (P&Z) Commissioner for around three years and even held the chair position at one point.
He has lived in central Texas for the past 38 years and spent the last 18 years in Blanco. Green began college at Southwest Texas State in San Marcos (now known as Texas State) and completed his undergraduate degree at Texas Pan American University in Edinburg.
The 2020 May CoAPT meeting was called to order by project coordinator, Amber Corder, at 11:35 a.m. on May 13 via Zoom. Corder informed the others that she has been attending webinars throughout the pandemic.
An assessment and planning meeting was held via Zoom on April 24 with members brainstorming ideas for meeting the Drug Free Communities Support Program grant requirements.
The Blanco Library is a busy place. The library, which has been around for more than 80 years, has over 8,000 patrons and boasts a collection which totals over 27,000 items.
While it has been closed to the public for weeks during the coronavirus pandemic, it is likely to reopen soon.
The idea of the library is to be like a living room for the community.
Some folks in Blanco have gone back to basics during the coronavirus shut-down, and nothing is more basic than plunging your hands into the Earth, planting seedlings, nurturing them, watching them grow…and eventually eating them as a healthful supper.
Some local families have used the unforeseen downtime to start home gardens.
In the Faris family garden, cilantro, bell peppers, tomatoes and zucchini squash are basking in the Texas sun, unconcerned about a worldwide pandemic.
“We dec ...
The Blanco County Commissioners Court on Tuesday approved several amendments to agreements with Kinder Morgan.
KM will now be in contact daily (excluding weekends) with Commissioners Tommy Weir and Paul Granberg in regards to project activity within Blanco County. County Judge Brett Bray will have a weekly conference call with Allen Fore, KM vice president for public relations, and/or another senior KM representative.
Allen Fore, vice president of public relations for Kinder Morgan, and Greg Neal, a consultant for Kinder Morgan presented, a check for $172,000 to Blanco County Emergency Services District No. 2 on May 6.
The check was part of the Blanco County Investment Agreement negotiated by Judge Brett Bray in November 2019 for eight entities within Blanco County, which would be most impacted by the increased population from Kinder Morgan workers, increased utilization of schools, and increased use of ...
The good news was negative.
Each of the 94 people who tested at the first mobile COVID-19 testing site in Blanco County came back with negative results, meaning they do not have the virus, the county’s emergency management reported last Friday.
The first mobile testing in the county was held May 2 in Johnson City.
As days go by, it’s always a blur, but bright things are ahead of us. Governor Greg Abbott says, ``Graduation outside are allowed.” Now personally, I’m not having hope for being able to graduate and walk the stage in front of my family and friends I grew up with.
Twelve years of hard work and dedication to one thing and one thing only -- the day you officially start your life as an adult on graduation day.
The Blanco County Commission Court was called to order at 9 a.m. on Tuesday by Judge Brett Bray with Commissioners: Tommy Weir, Emil Uecker, Chris Liesmann and Paul Granberg.
Public comments were heard and limited to three minutes. First, D’Anne Welch spoke in regards to the updates of the “Rules of Procedure, Conduct and Decorum at Meetings of the Blanco County Commissioners Court.” She said,”...I am at a loss to understand why you believe it is necessary to amend the ‘Rules’ a ...
