Spend five minutes with Llano Elementary School Principal Doug DeBord, and you’ll soon realize that for him, it really is all about the kids.
The 2016-17 school year will be his first as the head of LES, but he spent last year getting to know the students and faculty as the assistant principal.
Having transferred from Fredricksburg, DeBord chose Llano because, “There is something to be said about the people of a small town.
District Attorney Wiley B. “Sonny” McAfee requested a Texas Attorney General opinion last week on several issues related to voting.
McAfee, who represents Llano, Burnet, Blanco and San Saba counties, wrote to Attorney General Ken Paxton on Aug. 31. The three questions asked concerned the storage of an image of a ballot by electronic voting systems, the requirement of election judges to tally votes and return them to county elections officers, and what remedies are available if an elections ...
Talks began in March about bringing different types of entertainment to Llano, a meeting with a musical promoter out of Austin between the Llano Chamber of Commerce, the Llano Community Center Board, the Christmas Lighting Committee and the JLK Arena. What came out of that meeting was entertainment is expensive, but there was a void in Llano of a variety of entertainment options.
Burnet and Marble Falls have Summer Lawn Concerts, and Cherokee has its music festival.
The Jacket volleyball team did not go to Denver, August 25-27, but it did go almost as far — Denver City, which is about a soft serve from New Mexico. You would have thought the coaches and girls were sent to pick up information for Larry McMurtry so he could write a sequel to Lonesome Dove.
It took a while, but the adventure paid off: three wins to conclude the visit on Saturday and a triumph in the consolation bracket of the tournament — and now an impre ...
Kenzie Johnson, left, sprays shaving cream on the head of LHS theater teacher Caleb Strauss, as teacher Lisa Petty, right, watches during last Friday’s pep rally at the school.
Before an event can begin, there has to be a vision, and in Llano those visionaries come from all walks of life. The “Fourth Friday Llano Art Walk” began as just that, a vision of Marcus Hammons and Valerie Smasal–Hammons earlier this year.
The art walk happens the fourth Friday of the even months and has been a successful venture between local artists and shop owners.
For most people, the mention of “knitting” brings up images of grandma sitting alone by a warm fire, knit-one-purl-two-ing to the rhythm of her rocking chair. For a group of Llano ladies, this sort of solitary needling couldn’t be farther from the truth.
Seven years ago, Marilyn Hale and Sandy Shaw, both Llano locals, decided that while they enjoyed knitting, it would be a lot more fun with good company to enjoy it with.
“We put up a few flyers,” Hale remembered, “and knitters ...
If you weren’t impressed with the gymnastics at the Olympics, you probably think the Wright Brothers weren’t doing much more than what school kids did when they tossed around folded paper before the teacher arrives.
Keihana Palmares of Llano may not be ready for Tokyo in 2020, but she’s a dandy who brought back medals — that were not souvenirs — earned at a national AAU competition in Houston this summer.
Keihana, of Llano, is 11 years-old.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton issued an opinion last Thursday on the Llano County vehicle policy. The opinion summary said that the county may only put into place vehicle policies for sheriff’s office vehicles that do not “unreasonably interfere with the sheriff’s constitutional or statutory duties.”
The second part of the opinion dealt with the county auditor’s ability to access records on the use of county vehicles.
SAN ANTONIO — ”Rudy Davalos...This is Your Life!” Few of you will remember that portion of the
Golden Age of Television in the 1950s, but Rudy Davalos of Horseshoe Bay would have been a magnificent star of one of those episodes.
And, although, on August 15, it wasn’t televised — with the show decades in retirement — a full ballroom at The Stable at Pearl did indeed get to know the man who was presented with the Lamar
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