The Johnson City Volunteer Fire Department will buy 20 new handheld, two-way radios with a $23,169 community development grant from the Lower Colorado River Authority and Pedernales Electric Cooperative.
Johnson City Volunteer Fire Department Fire Chief Roy Burdett said the department has long needed the radios, but their price put them out of reach.
“We just didn’t have money for the new communication systems the federal government requires emergency responders to have,” Burdett said.
No one was injured after the bucket of a hydraulic crane came in contact with power lines outside the Pedernales Electric Cooperative headquarters on Thursday, January 19.
That morning, contracted workers were removing Christmas lights around PEC headquarters on South Avenue F when the crane, also known as a cherry picker, reportedly touched power lines.
Brief power outages were reported across Johnson City as a result of the incident.
Official reports stated that electric current passed throug ...
Suspect in the January 7 attack on a Blanco County man, Richard Caster of Plano, Texas, was arrested the morning of January 19,2017 by the Frisco, Texas Police Department.
28 year old Caster is a suspect in a brutal attack on a resident on Cripple Creek lane outside of Blanco on January 7, 2017.
The other suspect, Daniel S.
The Johnson City Library’s Annual meeting is January 30, 2017, 6:00 PM, at the Johnson City Library, 501 Nugent Street.
The community is invited to participate in the Library’s annual meeting and to be part of the discussion of last year’s accomplishments and goals and budget for 2017.
The library strives to serve the community with programs and services that educate and enrich.
THE PRO-LGBTQ JOURNAL, THE ADVOCATE, understood how significant it was that President Trump’s Inauguration set a prayer record. This is what they wrote: “Donald Trump’s inauguration featured a record number of prayers — three invocations (opening prayers) and three benedictions (closing prayers), several from anti-LGBT clergy members and some notably sectarian in what is usually a nonsectarian event.
The Hill Country Astronomers (HCA) will meet at 6:30 PM, Monday, February 6, at Hill Country University Center in Fredericksburg.
Bruce Barton, club member, will present a program on considerations leading up to the design of his home observatory, as well as design and construction of the observatory. His presentation will include photos of construction and the finished product.
HCA’s members live in Central Texas and are from all walks of life.
In 1976 America celebrated two hundred years as an independent nation. In that same year I served on a church council in El Paso that oversaw many of the activities of a dozen or so congregations of my church. I was given the assignment of coordinating the church’s participation in El Paso’s Bicentennial celebrations.
Hill Country Memorial announces the 2017 schedule for its Cardiac Support Group for anyone interested in heart health, including those affected by heart issues like congestive heart failure, heart disease or heart attack.
The Cardiac Support Group will meet on Thurs., Feb. 2 from noon to 1 p.m. at the Hill Country Memorial Learning Center.
Tuesday night the Lady Eagles traveled to Lago Vista to face the Lady Vikings, which are sitting on top of the district at this point.
The Lady Eagles showed signs of how good they can be in the first half, playing with the district leaders. The Lady Eagles came out and played an awesome first quarter and only trailed the Lady Vikings by 6, 10-16.
The Lady Vikings heated up in the second quarter matching their first quarter score plus one.
Thirty-two people celebrated Christmas/New Year’s at the Pecan Street Brewery on December 29. The group included members of the classes of 1959,1960 and 1961.
These folks also celebrate with monthly luncheons held on the last Tuesday of every month.
Anyone interested in attending can contact Jim Furber for information. The get-togethers are not limited to the above classes but are open to anyone who enjoys getting together with old classmates and having fun visits.
People attending Thursday w ...
