Blanco Police officers responded to support the Blanco County Sheriff’s Office on a call Monday, July 16, 2018, reporting that a convicted felon allegedly possessed narcotics, weapons and a potential explosive device.
After dispatchers received the call, officers arrived at the scene in the Lake of the Hills subdivision south of Blanco.
Blanco County First Responders along with numerous Hill Country agencies worked through Wednesday to contain a vegetation fire that started Tuesday, July 17, 2018 and scorched over 700 acres of ranch land on Smith-West Ranch Road in Round Mountain.
Blanco County Emergency Management reported Tuesday at 5:20 p.m. multiple agencies responded to heavy fire conditions that threatened a structure.
Joi Chevalier, Democratic nominee for Texas Comptroller sat down with residents of Johnson City and Blanco on Sunday, July 8 to discuss how the Comptroller's office impacts the lives of rural Texans.
The Comptroller's office is responsible for making revenue projections for the state and for monitoring how budgeted funds are being spent.
The Llano Country Opry will be staged on Saturday, July 14, at the Lantex Theater in Llano, Texas. Tickets are now on sale at www.heartoftexascountry.com or by calling (325) 247-5354. Admission is $15.00 per person and the show begins at 7:30 PM. Darrell McCall and Tony Booth will be featured. McCall and Booth will do a set of their solo hits and then the join each other for some selections off of their Survivors album that also featured the late Curtis Potter.
In 1959, McCall was c ...
Thirteen Johnson City high schoolers rolled off to Crooked Creek, a YoungLife Camp in Colorado, last Sunday. They will be gone for a week. When they return they will be equipped more readily to help others experience YoungLife when it reconvenes at the start of the new school year. For many of the campers, this is the first time they will be away from home for an extended period of time.
A local family expecting a newborn now faces a medical obstacle that can only be resolved via surgeries and treatments.
Jordan and Nadine, Blanco County residents with long roots, recently learned that their unborn baby, Tatum Cole, due on August 10 has a heart defect know as Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome (HLHS).
Contribution By Cathy Hut, Blanco Country News Editor
The Blanco County Sheriff’s Office received 333 calls for service from 07/02/2018 through 07/08/2018 The Blanco County Communications Center received the following call types during the 7-day period.
13 – ARREST
137 – TRAFFIC STOPS
22 – RECKLESS DRIVERS
26 – MEDICAL AID CALLS/
MEDICAL ALARMS
28 – 911 HANG UP CALLS, MIS-DIALS, OPEN LINES, OR ABUSE CALLS
09 – FIRE CALLS/FIRE ALARMS
05 – MOTOR VEHICLE ACCIDENTS
05 – DISTURBANCE CALLS
09 – ANIMAL COMPLAINTS ...
The Johnson City Library is a busy place in the summer! Here are some highlights
of activities from Thursday, July 12 through Thursday, July 20:
THURSDAY, JULY 12, 3:00 pm
Continuing the Library’s ongoing summer photography project, we have scheduled an adult and teen “field trip” to the A. Smith Art Gallery in Johnson City to view a new exhibit entitled “The Street”.
It’s easy to spot a farmer or rancher these days. They are the folks constantly craning their necks skyward to inspect every cloud, evaluating every puff of wind for a hint of moisture.
They shush the room when the weather report comes on TV. They twirl the radio dial for news of rain.
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.
