The Llano High School Class of 2017 has closed its final chapter as students, and from some of the speeches given during Friday night’s commencement exercises, the final year was an exciting one.
Jaden Napolez, senior class president, mentioned a couple of the more thrilling events that took place during the year.
Craig Slaughter has announced his resignation from Llano ISD after five years as the LHS head football coach and athletic director. He will move on to be the defensive coordinator at Wall High School and will teach geography.
The move is not a shock. The Llano football team has suffered through five consecutive losing seasons, but Coach Slaughter has led Llano to three playoff appearances, which includes one win in four playoff games.
Prior to five years at Llano, Slaughter has been head coach ...
The Buchanan Volunteer Fire Department will purchase equipment to safely and quickly refill firefighter air tanks with the help of a $24,000 community development grant from the Lower Colorado River Authority.
Thieves broke into the fire station in January and damaged or destroyed a large amount of equipment, including the air compressor used to refill the air tanks firefighters use when responding to hazards.
The Fire Department will use the grant to buy a new compressor, a station that can fi ...
Evan Wheeler, trombone-playing band member, Eagle Scout and all-around good guy, is heading off to Texas A&M University this fall. Wheeler is the salutatorian for the LHS Class of 2017.
As a Llano High student, he thoroughly enjoyed courses in world history, geography and U.S. history with Jimmy Freeman, and government and economics courses with Jil Dillard.
If it hadn’t been for a bet she made with her father, McKenzie Cockerham might not be the valedictorian for the Llano High School Class of 2017.
Cockerham, who grew up in Llano, moved to Wimberley for ninth grade. Though she liked the school, she realized how special her Llano friends were, how much they meant to her, and that she wanted to graduate with them.
One day a year, the nation sets aside a special day to honor those who made the supreme sacrifice while serving in the Armed Forces of the United States. Frank Griggs Post 370 of the American Legion will host a short, 30-minue memorial ceremony at 10 a.m. on Monday, May 29, at the post in Llano.
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Thanks to a little “elephant snot,” the Texas Centennial Marker along Hwy. 71 commemorating the Packsaddle Mountain battle has been restored. Restorationists applied the chemical graffiti remover, known as “elephant snot,” on the monument Monday night. They washed it off Tuesday morning as the graffiti dripped to the ground, and after a little more cleaning, the monument looked good as new.
The monument was one of seven reported vandalized in February in this general area, said Bob ...
Veterans were honored with “Quilts of Valor” presented Saturday at an Armed Forces Day ceremony, which was sponsored by the Llano Tea Party. The Llano chapter of the Quilts of Valor has presented 182 quilts since 2013, while 159,000 have presented nationally since 2003. The quilt is given as a thank you to the veteran, and to honor their service, sacrifice and courage.
Officers with the Llano Police Department and the Llano County Sheriff’s Office were dispatched to Stonewalls Pizza Wings & Things, at 109 W. Main Street in Llano, in reference to a burglary in progress at approximately 12:50 a.m. on May 25.
Officers found a suspect identified as Robert Sutton, 29, of Llano, who was down due to a single gunshot wound.
On Saturday evening, the Lantex Theater was host to the 18th anniversary of the Llano Country Opry, and superstar from the 1980s and ‘90s, Doug Supernaw. Those that were in the audience were treated to another night of music that can compete anywhere in the state of Texas.
From the opening number by the Llano Country Opry Band to the closing by the night’s headliner, traditional country music resonated throughout the walls of the 90 year old theater, and a little Rock N Roll.
Kaye Tolson an ...
