The Woman’s Civic club met for their February meeting at the Community Church of the Hills. Vice President and hostess Pepper Branch welcomed members and thanked the other hostesses Barbara Counts, Kay Culp and Beverly Voron. We had two guests Ganelle Conner and Catherine Hedges.
Pepper introduced our guest speaker for the evening Jim Aldridge, who gave an interesting program on the history of finding Gold in the Hill Country.
Cynthia “Cindi” Carol Barbieri, 61, passed away Tuesday, March 8, 2016 at her home in Johnson City. She was born December 6, 1954 in Kansas City, KS to Douglas Carol Bird and Fannie Maude (Curry) Bird.
Cindi was preceded in death by her parents and a brother, Jimmy Bird. She is survived by her husband Bobby Ruff, Jr.; son, Jacob Barbieri; daughter, Rolinda Cathey and husband Mark; siblings, Brad Bird and wife Maureen, Stephen Bird and wife Maylene, Danny Bird, Norma Hood and husband Thurman ...
The Hill Country Cattle Women will meet on March 15, at 10 am at the Lea Lou Co-op at 114 San Antonio Street in Mason Texas
Our meeting will be hosted by the Mason County members, and will be held in Mason.
There wil not be a guest speaker as this will be final meeting prior to Spring Round-Up and the time will be dedicated to finalizing plans for our annual fundraiser.
We’re about a week away from pickup day, the end of our disaster used clothing drive for this year.
Sometime next week, the Seventh-day Adventists’ semi will make its stop in Johnson City, gathering the used clothing donated for distribution to the survivors of disasters that haven’t happened yet.
The clothes collected here will be combined with those gathered by churches and other collectors across Central Texas, and taken to the Adventists’ processing center and warehouse in Alvarado, ...
New members of the president’s cabinet take the oath of office in surroundings that reflect the dignity and the power and of their position. Since 1960 that place, with few exceptions, has been the White House or somewhere in Washington. D. C. No wonder Lawrence O’Brien, a city boy from Boston (and future Commissioner of the National Basketball Association), looked like a Baptist at the Vatican taking his oath as Lyndon Johnson’s Postmaster General on the front porch of the Hye General St ...
The Lady Eagles hosted the Blanco County Tournament and showed that they can compete with the big schools in the surrounding area. They Lady Eagles went 2-2-1 in the tournament and tied for third.
The Lady Eagles opened up the tournament against Llano and picked up their first victory of the day.
The Johnson City Eagles had a good week, going 2-1 at the Hill Country Classic in Llano and defeating the Armadillos from San Saba.
The Eagles opened up the Hill Country Classic against San Angelo Central’s JV. The Eagles fell behind 4-0 after 1 inning, but would come alive in the second inning and score 6 runs to the Bobcats 1, making the score 6-5.
The Johnson City Eagles traveled to Comfort Thursday night and competed against much larger schools and showed that they can run, jump and throw with anyone.
The Varsity Boys finished 5th out of ten teams. The JV Team also finished 5th.
Winning individual medals were Blake Caulkins 3rd in the 100 meter dash.
The 7th and 8th grade girls competed in the Comfort Ribbon Relays last Friday, March 4th. These ladies all compete as an 8th grade team and did very well in their first track meet of the year. Overall results were: SHOT PUT: 1ST-Kalli Dalland (33’8.5"); 3RD-Paige Dalland (32’9"), DISCUS: 1ST-Paige Dalland (92’2.5"); 3RD-Kalli Dalland (85’.25"), LONG JUMP: 2ND-Kenzie Adrian, HIGH JUMP: 6TH-Kenzie Adrian, 2400M: 3RD-McKenna Cowsert, 4 x 100 R: 2nd-Kalli Dalland, Paige Dalland, Mariana Alv ...
JOHNSON CITY—A fine opening day, February 18, for the softball Eagles, who took a huge lead and held it against Llano. They also came up with the defensive play-of-the-game and earned head coach Tamara Tupper her first win as a high school head coach. 8-4 was the final.
“Did pretty well at bat, good base running, and bunts went down well at opportune times,” said Tupper, who has collected volumes of coaching experience in select ball.
Ashley Butler began her three-hit presentation with a ...
