Blanco Good Samaritan Center is ready to renovate. With the Emergency Services District No. 2’s move to a new building on Blanco Avenue, the Center will begin transforming that organization’s former quarters on Chandler into its new home. The move will reduce overcrowding and allow for expanded services.
Work will begin July 8 with an all-volunteer group under the able direction of Mike Rieken.
main road between Blanco and Wimberley was once the hub of Fischer, a tiny Hill Country community. Fischer is one of those places where one can still touch and smell 19th century Texas. For how much longer, is anyone’s guess.
Hermann Fischer, the man who started it all, left Germany rather than submit to compulsory military service.
The mustang horse is America’s famous wild horse, descended from Colonial Spanish horses, they were first brought over to North America with the arrival of Cortés in Mexico in the year 1519 where the Native American’s soon adopted them into their lifestyle. By 1686 there was a stable Spanish horse population in what is now Texas.
Marlene Holmes, Ben Milam Whiskey Distillery’s master distiller, has an interesting tale on how she entered the whiskey world.
“Well it’s a fish story,” said Holmes.
The spent grain, which is the leftover malt and adjuncts after the mash has extracted most of the sugars, proteins, and nutrients, was typically given to livestock.
The head distiller at Jim Beam at the time, wondered if fish would also enjoy eating the spent grain and began implementing the experiment at the distil ...
The Deike brothers from Hye, Texas took sibling rivalry to another level. In August 1935 they left their regular jobs on the farm, at the store and the cotton gin to battle the Stanczak brothers from Waukegan, Illinois for the All Brothers Baseball Championship.
Baseball was big stuff in the Texas Hill Country, so it was natural that Fritz Deike’s 9 sons, ranging in age from 13 to 32, would form a family baseball team.
Hill Country baseball was a social event in those days - part athlet ...
The RCBC Helping Hand Food Pantry located at 11755 US 281 N, Spring Branch, hosted a ribbon cutting event for their newly built facility on Tues. June 11. Over one hundred people including State Representatives and representatives from all the contributing partners were in attendance to celebrate the event.
The pantry had been previously operating out of a closet and other nooks and crannies of the Rebecca Creek Baptist Church for the past three years.
By Rudy Nino, Blanco Historic Preservation Officer
If walls could talk was a TV series of tours historical homes, historical hotels and palaces rich in history, many of which have housed famous characters, while others are the sites of significant historical events.
Several of the buildings shown have hidden treasures found behind old walls or in the attic, and there are often amazing stories about the people who have lived there over the years.
Here in Blanco it could easily be ‘what if boards, the mortar, wrought iron fences, and nati ...
Alexa Ura, The Texas Tribune [reprinted with permission]
In a state where the population continues to rapidly swell, the sprawling Dallas-Fort Worth region remains a fundamental source for those gains.
Adding 131,767 residents from 2017 to 2018, the Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington area gained more residents than any other metropolitan area in the country and was behind more than a third of Texas’ population growth in that period, according to population estimates the U.S.
The Combined Community Action (CCA) Senior Nutrition Program also known as “Meals on Wheels” of Blanco, sponsored by Trinity Lutheran Church was facing a hole with the loss of former coordinator Claudia Smith.
Lainie Parker, a 23-year-old Blanco resident knew she had to answer the call to serve after Smith left; having seen the benefits of the program firsthand when her grandfather was a recipient while she was a little girl.
Parker performs multiple tasks as the coordinator.
Standardized testing in the state of Texas doles out pressure to every person in school. The district and administration feel the weight, especially with prospects of outcome-based funding, currently being discussed during this legislative session. However, the burden is most heavily shouldered by teachers and students.
That’s why it didn’t go unnoticed when the parents of Laura Johnson’s third grade class at BES found a letter written to their children from Johnson herself the day of ...
