The Texas Hill Country is a unique region of scenic beauty, diverse wildlife, star-filled skies, and historic towns. With a rapidly growing population and increasing development coming to the region, many of these special qualities are at risk of being lost forever. For its 12th annual photography contest, the Hill Country Alliance (HCA) asks photographers to take out their cameras and capture what is unique and special about the Texas Hill Country that they would like to conserve.
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Keep Blanco Beautiful’s 19th Annual Don’t Mess with Texas Trash Off and 12th Annual Blanco River Clean-up will be held Saturday, April 7, 2018.
The event will begin at Bindseil Park at 9 a.m. and the new KBB t-shirts will be passed out.
In the past, many different organizations have joined us to pick up litter from the city easements and we’re looking forward to working with everyone again this year!
The morning of the event you will see Blanco ISD students, teachers, Girl Scouts ...
The March 8, 2018 meeting of the Blanco County EMS Board began with a call to order by president Elaine Cross, followed by the presentation of EMS Chief Ben Oakley’s report. After presenting those in attendance with a copy of the report, the chief provided a financial update, which included monthly expenditures and income relative to the budget and year-to-date figures.
In my official capacity as “Supervisor de Escuelas,” I was observing a first-year teacher in a small elementary school in the city of Veracruz, Mexico. She held up a picture of some firemen and asked the class, “Que hacen los bomberos?” or “What do firemen do?”
Immediately, a hand shot up and an excited little boy could hardly wait to be called upon to answer.
Thank you for joining or renewing your membership in OBCCPS for 2018. If you have not yet joined, you will have an opportunity at the annual membership meeting on March 15, 2018. Your membership and interest in the Old Courthouse are essential to the OBCCPS mission of restoring and maintaining the Old Blanco County Courthouse as an historic site and as a well-used treasure of the Blanco Community.
OBCCPS encourages all members and other interested persons to attend the annual meeting.
The Hill Country Astronomers and Keep Blanco Beautiful have teamed up with the First Baptist Church to host its first Family Star Gazing Night at 7:30 p.m. Monday, March 12, 2018.
Blanco County resident John Watson of the Hill Country Astronomers will present a demonstration in the church’s Fellowship Hall to start the evening’s activities.
“Rain or shine, we’ll start with a computer-generated planetarium of what we’ll see in the sky,” Watson said.
March 6 marked the 182nd anniversary of the fall of the Alamo.
A convention of delegates met at Washington on the Brazos to write the Texas Declaration of Independence, as well as the Constitution of the Republic of Texas. Fifty-nine delegates from North and South Carolina, Virginia, Tennessee, Georgia and Kentucky as well as others were among the Texans in the delegation all calling Texas their home.
The Blanco County Sheriff’s Office received 311 calls for service from 2/19/2018 through 2/25/2018. The Blanco County Communications Center received the following call types during the seven-day period:
17 = Arrest
152 = Traffic Stops
10 = Reckless Drivers
22 = Medical Aid Calls/Medical Alarm
13 = 911 Hang up Calls, Mis-dials, Open line or Abuse calls
8 = Fire Calls/Fire Alarms
4 = Motor Vehicle Accidents
6 = Disturbance Calls
7 = Animal Complaints/Loose Live Stock Calls
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The Blanco City Council convened a special meeting on Feb. 20, 2018, with Mayor Herden and all council members present. After calling the meeting to order, Mayor Herden commented on recent efforts to bring about change to the city with regards to the water treatment and the wastewater treatment plant by addressing priority, long-term concerns.
Governor orders action to address safety at schools
Gov. Greg Abbott on Feb. 21 sent a letter to Texas Education Agency Commissioner Mike Morath ordering immediate action to ensure the safety of children in Texas schools following the multi-fatality shooting at a Florida high school Feb. 14.
Abbott listed steps for state education leaders to take to respond to and prevent such tragedies, including:
— Catalog and share all available information from the Texas School Safety Center on sc ...
