It’s a 41-year tradition that brings some of the best musicians to town for a weekend of tricks, licks and good ole, down home music. Only strings are allowed with this group of artists, aging from 3 to, well, a group called the Legends. And yes, there is a fiddle, at least one, in the band.
This is the eighth year for John Caballero to bring the Llano Fiddle Fest Weekend to the Lantex Theater, with the assistance of his faithful group of volunteers that have been involved since he brough ...
The Llano ISD called a special board meeting at noon on Monday to discuss the Level III Grievance brought by Beth McDaniel.
They went into closed session for approximately 20 minutes. Jay Brim, lawyer for McDaniel, was allowed 20 minutes to state the grievance brought by her. Mac Edwards, superintendent for Llano ISD, was then allowed to present the school’s answer to the grievance.
Back in open session, Brim stated that last year and this year, McDaniel taught dual credit courses in En ...
Approximately 30 Llano High School students walked out of class last Wednesday to protest the fact that Robert Vaade’s teaching contract had not been extended.
Other teachers were offered contracts by a vote of the LISD board of trustees at the March 26 meeting. The board did not have an opportunity to vote on a contract for Vaade, who has taught math at LHS for 10 years, since his name was not on the list.
Congressman Mike Conaway stopped in Llano County during the current two-week Congressional recess.
He was in the county to meet with his regional youth advisory council in Horseshoe Bay. He routinely visits with the high school juniors and seniors on the committee to gather their thoughts on a variety of issues.
On Saturday, the John L Kuykendall Arena was home to one of the largest, single day barrel races since its opening.
Over 150 racers, some of the top in the field, were vying for the $2,000 added bonus money that was offered. Rafter E Productions produced the race that was sponsored by the Llano Lions Club, whose members also helped work the concessions, to raise money for the many annual events the club is part of.
On April 13, Llano will join Mason, Fredericksburg and Enchanted Rock State Park in a regional partnership to “Turn On The Night.”
All four of these communities are in some of the last remaining dark night sky areas in Texas, closest to the major metropolitan areas of the state. By everyone turning off as many unnecessary and too-bright lights, we will be able to see more stars.
The “Lights Out Night Out” initiative was conceived by Terry “Tex” Toler, Llano Main Street Manager ...
The champion has his portable throne! Teammates, L-R: Reigh Neudorf, Tyler Gann, Ray Dixon, Nolan Keller (barely), Luis Coronado, Quint Pincelli, and Ian Fletcher’s face tells the whole story. Dakoda deserved to be carried. He did the heavy lifting all day in Abilene.
The Llano County Commissioners took up cattle guard sizes and other associated issues at Monday’s regularly scheduled meeting.
They spent more than an hour discussing cattle guards and what issues would need to be agreed to in order to adopt a standard cattle guard policy.
The issue came to the forefront when a Precinct 1 landowner wanted to have a larger than standard cattle guard installed on a county road to keep exotic animals inside fencing.
The commissioners discussed a policy d ...
