Llano News

The developers of Walden Plantation on the Llano River have announced the opening of a new destination in the Texas Hill Country.

The Llano City Council heard a report from a representative of an Austin engineering firm on the new and higher flood plain levels FEMA has established for Llano County and the City of Llano, approved the allocation of funds from the hotel/motel tax to the Llano Visitor Center for the upcoming year and agreed to seek volunteers to serve on a ...

Central Texans can now receive emergency notifications on their cell phones. Previously, the service was provided only to those with landline telephones.

Eleven possible routes for a high-voltage power line proposed to link substations in Lampasas and Gillespie counties have been filed with the Public Utility Commission by LCRA Transmission Services Corp.

Wayne Brascom, Llano County Judge, met with several officials Tuesday to look into repairing damage from last Thursdaya s flood in Kingsland and helping prevent similar damage from occurring in the future.

Last week, Llano lost a beloved citizen and a true educator with the death of Doris Barnes Revada, who taught school for a total of 37 years, the last 15 of which she taught the fifth grade in Llano after the schools integrated in 1955.

A Horseshoe Bay resident was arrested Friday morning in Kerrville on nine outstanding warrants in Llano County and other surrounding counties.

Remnants of Hurricane Rick damaged homes, delayed schools, and closed roads Wednesday night and Thursday morning, bringing as much as 9 inches of rain to the thirsty lakes and rivers of the Highland Lakes.

People from across the state met in Llano on Saturday under a clear blue sky and 70-degree weather for the Heritage Day Festival.

According to the Burnet County Sheriff's Office, rains from Wednesday night and Thursday morning have caused some roads to be either closed or impassable.

Skip the drive-through and head to this quaint clapboard house for the most important meal of the day: a hearty but speedy breakfast of honey-sweetened granola, sausage biscuits, and Walk-Away Omelets .

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

By Michael Eck Special to The Times Union ALBANY - Spank me, please! The Asylum Street Spankers played a vibrant, wonderful show of wild and woolly acoustic music at The Linda, WAMCa s Performing Arts Studio, on Saturday night.

Any film festival that manages to survive five years, much less continue to grow, is bound to earn more respect.

Llano Heritage Days will have its annual celebration on Saturday, October 17, 2009.

Get out your boots, old-fashioned dresses and cowboy hats. Llano will celebrate a trio of events this weekend: the Llano Heritage Day Festival, the Llano River Chuck Wagon Cook-Off and the Ranch Rodeo.

A strong cold front and upper level disturbance will move from west to east across Texas tonight and Friday.

County offices: Bastrop and Llano county offices will be closed Monday. Burnet, Caldwell, Hays, Travis and Williamson county offices will be open.

During the regular meeting of the Llano City Council on Monday, City Manager Finley deGraffenried reported that the city had recently received from the Federal Emergency Management Agency a flood damage prevention ordinance, which all cities and counties participating in a flood insurance program must adopt.

A Burnet man's call to police may have been key to the efforts of US Marshals tracking suspected serial killer Paul Devoe, the days following the fatal shooting of Marble Falls bartender Mike Allred, on Aug.