Opinion

Dear Editor, I recently spent some time at the Baylor Scott & White hospital in Llano, I almost hated to leave. I was treated with kindness and love and have received two calls since I got home seeing if I am doing okay. I recommend it to anyone who needs health care. Sylvia Rhoades

Dear Editor, Last Wednesday afternoon May 24, 2017 we had just passed intersection 29 & 16 and were rear ended and side swiped by a drunk driver who sped off and did not stop to render aid. (They did catch up with him at Fuzzy Corner at Buchanan Dam and immediately was arrested).

Dear Editor, In reference to the editor’s note at the bottom of my letter to the editor of May 17, and factual writing: Karolyn Russell gave only two sources for the May 10, 2017 reprint full page article; Gem of the Hill Country, Wilburn Oatman, pp. 5-7, 18-21, 32, 33, and Llano County Family Album pp.

Dear Editor, During last year’s Central Texas Electric Cooperative (CTEC) Annual Meeting, a video shown by the board and CEO reported the construction of two new service centers, one in Fredericksburg and one in Mason. Only when asked by a member/owner about construction costs, did CEO Loth reveal that the total bill would be $13.2 million. Every member/owner is personally responsible for this debt.

Dear Editor, Thank you to Patty Pfister for her May 10, 2017 well written and documented rebuttal treatise in part to the “historical?” undocumented article by Karylon Hallmark Russell of April 26, 2017 regarding the German immigrants of Castell. Mrs. Pfister gave documented evidence of the first Llano County elections, the persons by name of whom were first elected and served in public office, the secession vote, county line changes, and at least 29 men, all Castell German immigrants, who ...

Dear Editor, Some residents of Llano may be wondering why the Llano Alliance for Drug Intervention is all “gung ho” for the creation of a Boys and Girls Club of America for elementary school children in Kingsland instead of in Llano. The answer is because it is needed more there, according to former school Superintendent Casey Callahan, who had met with LADI to discuss school drug problems last fall.

The first baseman was wearing number 42. So was the catcher and pitcher. All the Oakland Athletics were, and so were their opponents, the Astros. 42 was the only number across the landscape of the Major Leagues, April 15, because 70 years before, on that day, Jackie Robinson wore 42 and became the first African-American to play ball in the majors. It might have been the most important moment in baseball history.

Dear Editor, I’m writing because I have recently discovered a treasure we have in Llano. It’s called the Baylor Scott & White Medical Center in Llano. But I call it the Llano Hospital. For me, it was a place to get a blood test, or just drive by and watch the employee parking lot dwindle as the work funneled off to the new facility on Highway 71. But now, I have been blessed to be a partaker of its inner sanctum.

Dear Editor, Mike Conaway, you are our congressman You should represent us. During 2011-2015 in Llano County, 13.4 percent of the population under 65 had a disability and 22.3 percent of our population was uninsured. The ACA was a fair attempt to reduce that uninsured population. Now there is an attack on the ACA, and we are worried.

Dear Editor, I read an article that was published in The Llano News on Feb. 8, 2017, regarding issues with Northland Cable. I would like to ask why Northland Cable pays the City of Llano for a franchise, but they do not pay Llano County for their outside plant that serves their subscriber base in the County of Llano. Northland Cable has a fiber optic backbone structure throughout the city and county of Llano that has increased not only their bandwidth, but their income as well.