Llano News

Llano city administrators have instituted voluntary water restrictions because of decreasing flow of the Llano River.

Miss Aqua Boom 2009 Jacqui Devaney of Burnet, is presented Saturday night with her court Aqua Boom Princess Cheyenne LeJuene of Kingsland, left, and Miss Aqua Boom Duchess Jena Brooks of Kingsland, right.

From left, Coach Shaun Carter congratulates state track participants Caitlin Coffey, Kallie Johansen, and Andrew Ratliff.

State offices: Most open Friday, but some agencies might be closed Friday or Saturday.

The new arched roof rises high from the hillside above the Stockyards, almost taller and bigger than Billy Bob's Texas, the 'World's Largest Honky-Tonk.'Callers ask whether the new place is a mall or maybe a warehouse club.Neither. It's what must be the World's Largest Barbecue Joint.For 100 years the home of Texas 'meat on the hoof,' the ...

It's a rough job, but somebody's got to do it. Several weeks ago, new sports editor John Turner and I loaded a kayak on top of my SUV and headed off for a day on the South Llano River.

According to the Department of Public Safety, a string of vehicle crashes has injured several people and kept state troopers and air evacuation crews busy.

A 21-year-old Temple man was killed in a fiery car wreck Sunday night off Texas 71 in Llano County following a police chase, officials said.

View a radar recap of the storm which hit Central Texas on June 11, 2009. The National Weather Service completed a damage survey of Burnet, Williamson and Travis Counties.

The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children has issued an Amber Alert for Daisja Weaver, a 9 month old African American girl.

Somewhere, there is someone who will put down his or her remote only long enough to whine that there's nothing to do.

The Gillespie County Farm Bureau entered one of the many floats that graced the 74th Annual Llano County Rodeo Parade Saturday morning.

I'm looking for records of A.G. COMSTOCK in Llano Texas. He lived there from 1876 until 1897.

Graham's Spencer Sims and Demetrion Cooper of Hirschi run the 110 hurdles. In the newer, tougher district 2-3A, the overall number of Graham Steers and Lady Blues participating in the regional track meet was dramatically less than in recent years.

From Whit Hanks of Austin. Both my sons live in Hangzhou, China, and I went to visit them recently.

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED AN * URBAN AND SMALL STREAM FLOOD ADVISORY FOR... WEST CENTRAL BURNET COUNTY... LLANO COUNTY... * UNTIL 1030 AM CDT.

Thirty-two miles east of Del Rio, where Las Moras Springs bubbles out of the earth, the town of Brackettville marks the southwestern margin of the Balcones Fault Zone: a 5- to 40-mile-wide sector of ancient tectonic activity that cuts a 200-mile curved swath from Brackettville east and then north to just short of Waco.

James Holland shovels hot coals at Cooper's Old Time Pit Bar-B-Que in Llano. Wyatt McSpadden Lunch rush, Kreuz Market , Lockhart.

Editor's Note: Austin American-Statesman reporter Michael Barnes has spent two years exploring Texas' rivers from their sources to their mouths - not in a canoe, but by car and on foot.

Mike Reagor defeated Mikel Virdell in a close-run mayora s race. Tom Dalrymple and J.R. Decker won the two at-large alderman seats; incumbent Cheryl Crabtree and contender Ervin Light fell short.