They are called the Texas Intrastate Fire Mutual Aid System (TIFMAS), and most of them are firefighters from all over the Lone Star Sate; however, after seeing the work they have done to clean up Blanco State Park, one might be forgiven if they were mistaken for superheroes.
Mark Stinson, with the Texas Forest Service, said between the work of TIFMAS and two volunteers from the C.L.
It is no secret that Blanco Settlement, the premier RV spot in the region, was among the hardest hit by the Memorial Day weekend flooding event.
They watched as the river rose so quickly that there was no reasonable amount of time for reasonable thinking. Still, no lives were lost, although the damage to the park was extensive.
AUSTIN — Governor Greg Abbott has until June 21 to give bills recently passed by the Texas Legislature his final consideration before signing them, letting them take effect without his signature or vetoing them.
By June 1, the last day of the Legislature's 84th regular session, some 819 House bills and 504 Senate bills earned final passage, plus two House Joint Resolutions and five Senate Joint Resolutions.
As a seventh grader, I played the cornet in my junior high school band in Salt Lake City. The band director, Mr. Beckstead, arranged for the band to attend a young people's concert presented by the Utah Symphony Orchestra which, at that time, was housed in the old historic Mormon Tabernacle downtown.
Our school bus arrived just before the concert was to begin and the only seats remaining were those usually occupied by the world famous Mormon Tabernacle Choir.
As you know many of our friends and family in the Blanco, Wimberley and Austin area were deeply affected by the Memorial Day Floods.
There are countless stories of lives lost as well as personal property and houses literally washed away. After hearing the story of a local 70 year old Kindergarten teacher clutching on to her satellite dish for 6 hours before she was rescued, while she watched her partially paralyzed husband be swept away, we knew there was more that we could do than just read an ...
AUSTIN – On May 29, 2015 the Texas Workforce Commission (TWC) began accepting applications for Disaster Unemployment Assistance (DUA) as a result of the Presidential Disaster Declaration (FEMA 4223-DR) for Harris, Hays and Van Zandt counties. The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) amended the notice for DUA on June 6, 2015 to include the following counties: Bastrop, Blanco, Caldwell, Denton, Eastland, Fort Bend, Gaines, Guadalupe, Henderson, Hidalgo, Johnson, Milam, Montague, Navarro, ...
American Legion Chaplain Joe Garcia wants residents to understand the Flood Assistance Center has moved from the Byers Building to Trinity Lutheran Church.
"We stand ready to help anyone who comes to seek aid," Garcia said. "We now have a Blanco County Flood Disaster Relief Fund available. The fund is made up from money that has been largely donated by the community and collected from fundraisers like the concert."
Garcia said the center has prepared guidlines and criteria to help govern how th ...
Blanco State Park is still temporarily closed due to the historic floods of the Memorial Day weekend but, thanks to the hard work of park personnel and many disaster recovery specialists from across the state, it is in the process of recovering.
As conditions improve and when it becomes safe for volunteers to enter the park, the Friends of Blanco State Park will be contacting the many folks who have signed up to help with the restoration effort.
AUSTIN — A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit on June 9 upheld the constitutionality of House Bill 2, the state abortion law revised by the Texas Legislature in a July 2013 special session.
HB 2 and its provisions may be applied throughout Texas, the panel stated in a 56-page ruling, but drew two narrow exceptions: (1) a health clinic that performs abortions in McAllen may continue to function without upgrading its facilities to comply with standards set for ...
Gordon B. Hinckley asked, "Have you ever looked at one of those 16-foot farm gates? When it is opened, it swings very wide. The end at the hinges moves ever so slightly, while out at the perimeter the movement is great. It is the little things upon which life turns that make the big difference in our lives."
During World War II, my father was a yard man for the Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad when Gordon B.
