With a new fiscal year around the corner the second commissioner’s court session of July proved to be a long meeting with an overall theme of budget, improvements to county buildings as well as law enforcement technology, and infrastructure. The commissioners also voted to approve a burn ban effective until their next meeting August 8, when they will discuss renewing or cancelling the ban.
As the first order of pertinent business, the commissioners approved fixing roof leaks and other mainten ...
The Round Mountain Extension Education Association (EEA) Club met Wednesday July 20th at the Johnson City Library for its monthly meeting. Many exciting activities for the club to participate in over the next few months and upcoming years were discussed. On August 17, the club will hold our Annual Family Ice Cream Social at St Luke’s Episcopal Church in Cypress Mill.
The Hill Country Science Mill, a regional science center in Johnson City, TX, will offer free admission to K-12 teachers, administrators and employees on August 3, 4 and 5. The Science Mill will be hosting brief field trip info sessions at 11 am, 1 pm and 3 pm each day.
Visitors can show an employee ID badge, pay stub or another form of employment ID or communication from their school to receive free admission.
After a decade of planning, six years of saving and one year of building, Johnson City has a new high school football stadium. The new facilities also include a turf football field, regulation eight lane track, field event space and a state of the art weight room available for all the student athletes.
School administration have spent the past years touring stadiums and taking note of what worked and looked best.
Twenty middle-school youth from Johnson City packed their tools and air mattresses and spent last week in Mercedes, in the Rio Grande Valley, making life better for some of the poorest residents in the state.
“Mercedes was much like Johnson City,” said Carrie Anders, youth director at First United Methodist Church, “with people who gave us an opportunity to show God’s love through our service and smiles.”
The adventure started with mixing the kids from the six different Methodist chur ...
Hello Ladies of Blanco County. I can’t believe the time is almost here. It’s Rodeo time, the biggest and most exciting time of the year for our county. If you are entering your freshman through junior year, I would like to encourage each and every one of you to enter the 86th Annual Blanco County Fair and Rodeo Queen’s contest.
The monthly County Commissioners’ Court meeting took place on Tuesday, July 12 at 9 a.m. The County Judge, Commissioners and administration were in attendance as well as members of the community, representatives from the Hill Country Alliance and the Republican Candidate for County Tax Assessor.
The first order of business was the approval of the monthly payroll of $300,136, approval of official reports and the interdepartmental line items that included allotting materials for Precinct 3.
His name is about as hard to decipher as the one just below the headline here, but he’ll mainly be called, “Coach.” Chris A-R-L-D-T is the new head coach of the Johnson City baseball Eagles. Eliminate the D in Arldt, and that’s how you say it. I think.
Much more important is, on the phone, he appeared to be an enthusiastic, active, and veteran leader of athletes.
“I’m excited,” he told me, and he knows he is “fortunate to be able to come into a program that has a winning traditi ...
The Blanco County Courthouse Centennial Committee is working tirelessly to provide a huge 100th birthday bash for the Courthouse. They are planning and working on activities and they have the great task of looking over the history books and old pictures that tell the tale of not only the construction on the Courthouse but also the people who built this structure and those who lived in Blanco County at the time.
The celebration is planned for Saturday, September 17, 2016 beginning at 5 in the ev ...
More than 600 attend PEC Annual Meeting; 2 directors elected to Board of Directors
Pedernales Electric Cooperative voters re-elected District 5 Board Director James Oakley and elected Jim Powers, who ran unopposed, to serve as the new District 4 Director. Powers replaces former Director Chris Perry, who did not seek re-election.
Voters also approved an amendment affirming members the right to speak at any open meeting of the Board of Directors.
