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Soccer registration for the fall league is going on now through July 31. The fee for registration is $95 for registration, and additional siblings for $85 each. If children are enrolling in both soccer and baseball, they receive a $25 discount $25. The Blanco Youth Soccer Association accepts children age four to 11 years. To register, go to our website www.blancoyouthsoccer.com to sign up or you can also register at Blanco A/C Electrical & Plumbing we do accept cards.

Many high school graduates will be leaving Blanco this fall to venture off to college, vocational schools, the military or to join the workforce. While leaving home for the first time can be very exciting for these new high school graduates, it can be worrisome for parents. Parents simply do not have as much control over their kids when move away.

The Lower Colorado River Authority will accept grant applications for community projects in LCRA’s wholesale electric or water service areas in July. Grants of up to $50,000 are available. Applications for the Community Development Partnership Program grants will be available at lcra.org/cdpp beginning July 1 and are due by July 31. The grant program recently helped fund 22 projects, including providing emergency equipment to firefighters and other first responders, replacing outdated a ...

“For unto whomsoever much is given, of him shall be much required: and to whom men have committed much, of him they will ask the more.,” wrote Luke in chapter 12 of his book in the King James Bible. My family and I have been given much in our ranching life.

The Blanco County Sheriff’s Office received 352 calls for service from 6/18/2018 through 6/24/2018. The Blanco County Communications Center received the following call types during the seven-day period: 15 = Arrests 100 = Traffic Stops 13 = Reckless Drivers 29 = Medical Aid Calls/Medical Alarm 25 = 911 Hang up Calls, Mis-dials, Open line or Abuse calls 3 = Fire Calls/Fire Alarms 13 = Motor Vehicle Accidents 3 = Disturbance Calls 6 = Animal Complaints/Loose Live Stock Calls ...

The Blanco City Council met briefly Tuesday, June 19, 2018 adjourning into Executive Session after roll call to discuss the new job description and title for Wendy Patterson, the new City Secretary/Finance Director. After the matter was discussed, councilmember Gosnell moved to approve the job title and new position of Secretary/Finance Director.

Court Rules Against Ban The Texas Supreme Court on June 22 upheld a ruling by the Texas 4th Court of Appeals that the city of Laredo’s ban on single-use plastic bags is illegal. The ruling effectively invalidates bag bans across the state, said Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton. “Municipalities violate the law when they unlawfully pass the burden of solid waste management to citizens and retailers through illegal bag bans.

Birds of a feather flock together…and so does litter. It is a proven fact that “litter attracts litter.” If people see litter along the roadside, they are more likely to toss their own discards there as well. But if the roadside is clean, by and large, it stays that way.

This past weekend, communities all across the country celebrated the lesser known American holiday, Juneteenth. This annual observance commemorates the word of emancipation coming to Texas. Union General Gordon Granger delivered the news to the residents of Galveston nearly two and a half years after the emancipation proclamation had gone into effect, on June 19, 1865. A portmanteau of ‘June’ and ‘Nineteenth’, the day on which the holiday is traditionally observed, Juneteenth is the ...

Cicero A. Rust III, a resident of Blanco, has established an endowed scholarship in the Department of Modern Languages at Texas State University with a donation of $25,000. Rust established the scholarship in honor of his former English students at Floresville High School, where he began his teaching career, and also his former Spanish and English students at Lyndon B.