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 ...
Have you ever wondered how bees find flowers? It is known that they can see and smell flowers, but is that enough? Scientists at Bristol University in England wondered how bumblebees might know if a flower has already been visited, and therefore lacks nectar and pollen, compared to a fresh flower.
I preached my first sermon at Community Church of the Hills one year ago last Sunday. Never, in a million years did I ever expect to be pastoring a church in the middle of Texas, especially since I’m a native born—ahem—guy from the west coast, from the second largest city in America.
If you are in Christ Jesus, then your goal in life should be to be more like Him. The Apostle John said, “He who says he abides in Him ought himself also to walk just as He walked” (1 John 2:6). Through transformation we can become more and more like Jesus every day (Romans 8:9; 12:1-2; Colossians 3:1-4).
As we grow older, my wife and I have discovered that it is more and more difficult to find those perfect gifts for those special people on special occasions. It is easy, at the last moment, to run to Walmart for some trinket that might fall within the budget—some “dust catcher,” as my wife would say.
How can a battle be won, a victory done
In a fight that has no reason,
When the fighting’s done and each courageous son
Lies dead in every season?
We ask God why did they have to die?
I prayed that the Father
Would take this bitter cup from me,
But he answered, “ I love you so
That whatever is meant to be will be.”
So we salute with love and tears and joy
Each fighting soldier, girl and boy.
May peace come again to a warring land
And the sounds of war be silent again
And may our democrati ...
Pari-mutuel horse races return to Fredericksburg this weekend as The Gillespie County Fair Association presents the second of four horse racing weekends on July 16 and 17.
A dozen races are scheduled for each day, with half of them thoroughbred races. Gates open at 11:00 am, with post time at 1:00 pm.
On Saturday, Night in Old Fredericksburg will present the new Sommerzeit festival at the fair grounds.
