Blanco News

It's amazing what rain, cool weather and sunshine can do for the landscape. The lawns and flowers are lovely and the vegetables are putting on blooms and fruit.

The Blanco Chamber of Commerce is teaming up with the Old Blanco County Courthouse Society, Keep Blanco Beautiful, local merchants, and lavender growers to encourage residents and visitors to "celebrate a hometown Christmas," starting on Friday, November 27, and continuing throughout the holiday season at the Blanco Courthouse Square.

Blanco Verde, Blanco's new environmental organization, is proud to present the first meeting of its book club.

Silence Huang points out good and bad characteristics on a calibration cup of latte.

By next summer, the Texas Department of Transportation could at last begin finishing Wurzbach Parkway, adding an east-west connector expected to relieve congestion on Loop 1604 and Loop 410.

Rockin' R Steakhouse is pleased to introduce our new chef, Bud Bouldin. Chef Bouldin was born in Harlingen, Texas, and spent 9 years in the U. S. Navy as a Nuclear Machinist Mate.

On Saturday November 7 at 9:15am, the Blanco Verde Farm Tour takes off from the Old Blanco County Courthouse in Blanco.

A beautiful, winter morning scene along the Blanco River and a granddaughter's love of flowers were the inspiration for Herb Smith and Paul Keese's award winning photographs for the San Marcos Greenbelt Alliance, Naturescapes Photograph 2009 Contest, now on display at San Marcos Activity Center, through Oct.

Talk about a big first day on the job. Less than 12 hours after Milton Willmann was hired Tuesday night as Blanco police chief, the normally peaceful city was shaken by its first bank heist in decades.

The spirit of Ron Houston, "The Voice of Blanco" and Mayor ProTem until his untimely death on October 7, was present at the regular meeting of the governing body of Blanco on October 13.

Rocky Community Club is holding its annual Smorgasbord on Saturday, November 7, the first day of deer season.

The Blanco County Association of Retired Educators will meet at 2:30pm on Thursday, October 29 at the First United Methodist Church in Johnson City.

Master Gardeners of Blanco County are sponsoring a public program by the organic farmer himself, Malcolm Beck.

The Blanco County Sheriff's Department said three men forced their way into a bank wearing ski masks Wednesday morning, escaping with cash.

Blanco County Sheriff's deputies responded to a bank robbery Wednesday morning at the Security State Bank on Highway 281 in Blanco.

Two employees of a Blanco bank were tied up Wednesday morning during a robbery. It happened at the Security Bank in Blanco around 7 a.m. Blanco County investigators say three people were involved in the robbery.

Last week a most unusual animal made its world premiere in an equally strange museum in the small town of Phoenix, New York.

Sheets of water and roadside puddles of rain reflected various shades of overhead gray, which I tried to ignore in favor of sweet optimism for a day on San Antonio Bay with friends.

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UFOlogy has always been one of my interests and the incident that happened on October 7 over Moscow, Russia, is one of the more interesting ones I've heard about.