Granite Shoals News

A wintery blast of Christmas Eve winds in excess of 25 miles per hour brought down the traffic light and signs at the intersection of RR 1431 and Phillips Ranch Road in Granite Shoals.

Granite Shoals City Councilman Calvin Chamness received the congratulations of his fellow council members Tuesday night on his election to the board of the Burnet Central Appraisal District.

Cheaper Than Rent Mobile Homes: Kingsland, Granite Shoals & Cottonwood. Taking credit applications for owner financing.

The City of Granite Shoals on Tuesday night voted to participate in the Burnet-Llano County Regional Water Facility Planning Study.

Wednesday, a state environmental commission decided treated wastewater will not be dumped into the Highland Lakes.

It is illegal to discharge treated effluent into the Highland Lakes. But that could change - and that notion that does not sit well with many Lake Travis area community leaders.

The state comptroller has made a list. Highland Lakes officials are checking it twice.

The Granite Shoals City Council Tuesday night heard plans for a day of civic activities with a centerpiece a barbecue fundraiser sponsored by the Granite Shoals Police Officers Association.

When Travis County commissioners decided to pay $40,000 to the 72-year-old woman whom a deputy constable hit with a Taser in May, they considered several factors.

Councilmember Chris Riley and Mayor Lee Leffingwell are crapping all over a plan by the Cities of Leander and Granite Shoals to discharge treated sewage, or effluent , into the Highland Lakes, including Lake Travis and Lake Austin.

Leander and Granite Shoals have issued a petition to the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality to lift current wastewater dumping ban.

A final question and answer session regarding Proposed Emergency Service District #3 to support fire protection for the unincorporated area of the Burnet County served by the Granite Shoals Volunteer Fire Department will be held at 7 p.m. Nov.

Decisions on three emergency services districts, local sales tax proposals and state constitutional amendments face voters in Burnet and Llano counties Nov.

State, county and city law enforcement engaged in a frantic manhunt Monday for a convict who escaped some time Sunday evening from the four-month-old Burnet County Jail.

Burnet County officials are searching for an inmate who has been reported missing from the Burnet County Jail since Sunday.

The Kingsland Municipal District Board of Directors on Monday adopted a proposed tax reduction to be approved in a tax rate hearing set for Sept.

The Granite Shoals City Council Tuesday night acted in accordance with action on the part of the City of Horseshoe Bay earlier in the day to realign each citya s Extra Territorial Jurisdiction with the mid point of the Colorado River channel in Lake LBJ.

A jury of three men and nine women deliberated for two hours Thursday before finding a 20-year-old Kingsland man guilty of recklessly causing serious bodily injury to a child, the lesser of the two charges the accused faced.

A jury trial began this week for a 20-year-old man charged with causing serious bodily injury to a 1-year-old boy.

Three Burnet County communities a ' Marble Falls, Granite Shoals and Bertram a ' came out ahead of the pack in recommendations for federal Community Development Block Grants in the current two-year cycle of U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development funding.