A bill under consideration by the Texas House of Representatives would allow the two municipalities in Blanco County--Blanco and Johnson City--to use funds from its hotel occupancy taxes to promote dark skies.
Rep. Erin Zwiener, who represents District 45 in Blanco and Hays counties, presented House Bill 2433 to the House Ways and Means Committee earlier this month.
You may soon receive an appraisal notice from the Blanco County Appraisal District. The appraisal district mailed about 14,500 appraisal notices on 4/16/21. Your city, county, school district and other local taxing units will use the appraisal district’s value to set your 2021 property taxes.
Under Texas law, county appraisal districts are required to notify property owners about changes in their property’s value.
Fredericksburg- This week, Hill Country Memorial Hospital was named to the Fortune/IBM Watson Health 100 Top Hospitals® list. This is the tenth time Hill Country Memorial Hospital has been recognized with this honor as one of the top performing in the U.S.
IBM Watson Health has identified the top hospitals from a rigorous evaluation of 2,675 short-term, acute care, non-federal hospitals in the U.S.
I have mentioned several times in this column over the past months that native grasses are the best thing to have on the ground to capture and hold rainwater. I think it might be useful to elaborate on that a little.
The root structure of native bunch grasses looks a lot like the leaf structure above ground, with many roots growing from the area just below the surface and growing down and outward from there.
The Blanco County Commissioners Court special meeting was called to order at 9 a.m. on Tuesday morning by Judge Brett Bray.
After roll call and the Pledge of Allegiance, public comments were heard. Kenneth Welch took the floor first and discussed item 13 on the agenda regarding the road width requirements in the county’s Development Rules and Regulations; he explained that the narrower roads proposed are not good for the future growth.
“Please table Commissioners Wier’s proposal tod ...
On Friday, May 7, Highland Lakes Creative Arts is hosting a VIP reception during the week of their 14th annual Paint the Town event in Marble Falls. The reception features Plein Air artists and their respective plein air paintings from the week.
Guests attending the ticketed event will enjoy live music, delicious food, and drinks.
A bid to expand health coverage for low-income Texans failed in the Texas House last week, 80-68.
State leaders have long opposed expanding the Medicaid program, which is largely funded by the federal government. The measure that failed last week would have allowed the Texas Health and Human Services Commission to negotiate a funding agreement with the feds, called a 1115 demonstration waiver, that would cover more uninsured Texans without technically expanding Medicaid, according to variou ...
Blanco County continues to have the lowest unemployment rate in the Rural Capital Area of Central Texas, according to figures released last week by the Texas Workforce Commission.
The county’s unemployment rate rose slightly from February to March, from 4.0 to 4.1 percent, according to figures released this month by the TWC.
A local Johnson City Middle School student has qualified to compete in the 2021 USA Junior Olympics in the Riflery competition. Seventh grader, Briley Sralla, 13, will be travelling to Hillsdale College in Michigan on May 12 to represent the State of Texas in the Precision Air Rifle and Smallbore 22 competition.
Echo Gallery in Johnson City, TX, announces the installation of an artistic tribute to the late Johnson City resident, Dr. Robert Clay Stubbs. Dr. Stubbs, who passed away in 2016, was posthumously awarded the honor of Outstanding Alumnus of the Texas A&M College of Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Sciences. After graduating in 1965, Stubbs served for four years in the United States Air Force and then began what would become a lifelong career as a veterinarian.
At age 50, Stubbs followed his ...
