He is a young man who grew up in a football mecca and played for the team. He played college ball and had one of the most successful assistant-coaching streaks you could have. And yet, he learned more when the numbers were reversed.
Matt Green is now Llano’s head football coach, and we’ve had hints about his football philosophy—especially on offense—but this report—mainly a one-man show—is more about his time, thoughts, and observations on triumph and punishment before arriving ...
Hunter Hampton is off to his first day of kindergarten last Wednesday at Llano Elementary School. Hunter is escorted by Burnet firefighters Travis Tschoerner (left) and James Schuetz (right). His parents are Lisa Hampton and late Burnet firefighter Daniel Hampton. See additional back-to-school photos in this week's edition of The Llano News.
Saturday night, inside the Lantex Theater, another round of magic was unfolding with a musical group from Houston.
John, Paul, Ringo and George took the audience back in time to the 1960s. This was not the real Beatles band, but if you closed your eyes for a moment, and then opened them again, you would swear you were on the Ed Sullivan show watching the Beatles.
Llano ISD student James “Dakota” Wimberly scored a 100 percent on the math portion of the state’s STAAR exam administered to third graders in May.
Dakota also mastered grade level for the reading portion of the test.
Dakota is the son of proud parents, Stephen and Penny Wimberly. The family moved to the Llano district in 2015, and Dakota has attended Packsaddle Elementary.
You don’t have to be a scientist to create art from glass, but you can be.
Llano’s Sheri Zoch, who has owned and operated The Glass Menagerie for about two and a half years, fell into the art of glass while searching for something to exercise the creative part of her brain.
After taking about 15 classes in a variety of art mediums, from drawing to paper making to painting and more, Zoch took a class on glass.
“I took that one (class) and it blew my mind,” she said.
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KINGSLAND—I walked to the First Baptist Church from the Community Center, Saturday morning, August 5, just to kill some time. I was there to cover a soccer team from Haiti.
I entered the church and saw the young players eating breakfast. They all looked normal to me, a bit on the handsome side and lean.
The Llano County Commissioners set a proposed tax rate and budget at Monday’s regularly scheduled meeting. They also called off the county-wide burn ban.
The commissioners unanimously approved a $0.30212 proposed tax rate per $100 valuation for Fiscal Year 2018 with a proposed budget of $15.3 million. The tax rate and budget are not final at this time.
Briley Mitchell has 104 pairs of solar sunglasses, and he hopes you’ll help use them.
Mitchell, executive director at the Llano Chamber of Commerce, welcomes the public to a solar eclipse party from 11:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Monday, Aug. 21, at the chamber and visitors center. The party includes a viewing of the solar eclipse, which is expected to peak about 1 p.m.
It is hard to believe but it is already time for school bells to ring in Llano, with first day jitters for students and instructors alike.
On Friday, the Llano Chamber of Commerce welcomed over 30 new employees to Llano ISD with goodie bags that were filled with information around the area, and with gifts from businesses throughout the town.
