The narrative I created in my mind for 2021 is not playing out as I had hoped, and I’m not happy about it. 2021 was supposed to be when the wound that was 2020 would begin to scab over. But our hopes for that were shattered in the first few days of the new year as the insidious COVID-19 case numbers and deaths spiked significantly, yet another deadly new strain of the virus was identified, the much-hyped vaccine roll out stalled, and radioactive rhetoric and violence tore through our nation ...
When you begin investing, you’ll generally assess your comfort with risk, as your investment choices will be guided at least partially by your risk tolerance. But once you actually experience the ups and downs of the market, this tolerance could be tested.
Risk tolerance may appear less bothersome in the abstract but seem quite different in reality.
Like elsewhere in the state and across the country, cases of COVID-19 are rising across the Texas Hill Country, including in Burnet and Llano counties. It’s a concerning trend, especially since it comes amid the holiday season when many healthcare facilities are also busy caring for patients with other illnesses that are prevalent this time of year.
However, there is finally a silver lining with the introduction of a vaccine that appears to be highly effective.
he first shipments of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine rolled out of UPS and FedEx warehouses earlier this week and the first doses have been plunged into the arms of healthcare workers nationwide, to applause and fanfare.
But when will Llano County folks have access to the vaccine?
“To the best of my knowledge, the vaccine should be available starting in early January for EMS, first responders, healthcare workers and law enforcement officers,” said Dr.
Llano voters made their choices known in several local races that were decided yesterday, including the Llano City Council, for which five candidates competed for two spots, and the Llano Independent School District Board of Trustees.
Voters decided to keep their LISD board president, Rick Tisdale, at Place 3, but school board newcomer Carlos Strand unseated the vice president at Place 4.
Llano City Council
Folks will see familiar faces at City of Llano City Council meetings.
The only ...
The USPS is a federal level service provided to deliver mail. Even though USPS is not responsible for providing the containers for your mail, they have boxes available for rent in the Horseshoe Bay facility.
The City and POAs are not responsible for mail services. Mail service is federally managed and controlled.
A statewide mask mandate exemption for which Llano County qualified last month was reversed a week after it was granted because the county’s COVID-19 cases began to creep upward.
As of Oct. 5, Llano County had 22 active coronavirus cases, which is over the limit of 20 active cases allowed for an exemption from the mandatory statewide mask requirement.
On Sept.
Efforts to raise funds for area Volunteer Fire Departments have resulted in a goal of $100,000 being reached. By September’s end, a soft date to reach the goal, Donna Klaeger, Director of Community Resource Centers of Texas exclaimed, “We made it!”
The number one priority of Highland Lakes Fire Departments, including the important Volunteer Fire Departments, is to prevent loss of life and property.
A few of you may have heard that there's an election coming up in November, not just a Presidential election, but also several Llano County races that were postponed from May 2, including contests for Llano Independent School District Board of Trustees, Kingsland Municipal Utility District Board of Directors, and the City of Llano City Council.
Llano County Elections Administrator Cindy Ware pointed out that Texans will not have straight party voting for the first time in over 100 years.
Opposition to a sand mining operation that is planned along the Llano River near Kingsland is coalescing as citizens and attorneys against the project stand poised for a legal battle.
The proposed site of the Kingsland Sand Plant, which will be owned and operated by Marble Falls-based Collier Materials, Inc., is along the Llano River Arm of Lake LBJ at the Moss/Miles ranch, west of the 2900 bridge.
Collier’s plan is to use two barges to dredge sand from the Llano River and pump the sand ...
