The Llano News earned several accolades from the Texas Press Association’s Better Newspaper Contest.
The newspaper picked up four awards and earned fourth in the overall sweepstakes category in its circulation division in the annual newspaper contest for 2016. The awards were announced Saturday at the press association’s annual mid-summer convention.
“The Texas Press Association is one of the premier press organizations in the country,” said The Llano News Publisher Ken Wesner.
The turf at the Llano High School football stadium has been repaired, the board of trustees were told at Monday’s regularly scheduled meeting.
Consultant Dean Sharp gave updates on construction at various campus sites, and said everything is moving along on schedule. He said the turf at the football field has been completed and work is now underway at the indoor facility, where the same product will be installed.
The new addition for the agriculture shop is in place and framing of the exterio ...
The Llano 4-H Meats Judging Team is headed back to nationals.
The Llano squad won state 4-H in meats judging at the state round up held earlier this month in College Station. The win put Llano into the national competition to be held in Manhattan, Kan., this fall.
“It was a tough year,” said coach Joe Dan Tarter of Llano’s razor-thin edge in the standings.
On June 13 at 1:11 a.m., Llano County Deputies responded to a shooting in the 300 block of Madison Avenue in Tow. The shooting involved a domestic disturbance between husband and wife. The female was flown by helicopter to an area hospital suffering from a single gunshot wound. Llano County Detectives and the Texas Rangers were called to the scene to investigate and process the scene.
The investigation is ongoing and no charges have been filed at this time.
The Llano County Commissioners approved a proclamation declaring July as First Responders Month in the county at Monday’s regularly scheduled meeting. Jay Ward, chairman of the Hill Country 100 Club, told commissioners the local organization formed in 2001 to support families of first responders who have been killed or seriously injured in the line of duty.
Friday night at the Llano County Community Center, the Friends of the Llano Red Top Jail held their annual meeting. Board members cooked and served hamburgers while others brought desserts that were out if this world. The speaker for the night was Llano Chamber of Commerce Executive Director, Briley Mitchell, who presented information on the
Keep Llano Beautiful program that will kick off on July 13 at the Llano Visitor Center and Chamber of Commerce.
Frank Rowell spoke after Mitchell, announci ...
LaVina Mitchell of Llano was crowned the 2017 Pure International Pageants Inspirational Sweetheart Queen on Tuesday in Orlando, Florida. She was named the Pure International Inspirational Queen of Texas earlier this year. Congratulations LaVina!
The Texas State Soil and Water Conservation Board and the Association of Texas Soil and Water Conservation Districts has named Llano County as the recipient of the 2016 award for the Outstanding Soil and Water Conservation District.
“As a board, we’re here to serve the ranchers and farmers of Llano County and this award just represents that we are doing our job, nothing fancy.
If some of you thought that Craig Slaughter’s successor would be—compared to Slaughter—a Clark Kent type before he steps into a phone booth, you should see if Mr. Comey still has friends at the FBI who could get a tape of the phone interview I did with Matt Green. He sounded like someone who’d won an Oscar and didn’t have to give it back.
“I’m chomping at the bit to get started,” he told me, June 9, several hours after it became official that he had resigned as head football coa ...
