Blanco News

For more than 30 years, Dromgoole has been the steady - and sometimes the lone - voice promoting the old, natural way of gardening without synthetic chemicals.

Perhaps Hays County Fire Marshal Carroll Czichos summed it up best last week. Speaking of the ongoing drought and restrictions on fireworks use, Czichos noted that in two years ago, someone could walk across ...

June was a hot one, with a record-setting number of days with 100+ temperatures and the Hill Country region is in extreme drought conditions, according to the U.S. Drought Monitor.

For the past several months, Blanco resident and City Council member Rebecca Howerton has been fighting an uphill battle in an effort to keep trash off the streets of Blanco.

At the June 5, 2008 meeting of the Board of Directors, Ron Fieseler, General Manager of the Blanco-Pedernales Groundwater Conservation District briefed the Board on declining aquifer levels in District monitor ...

The Texas Forest Service and several area departments are fighting the fire. More Central Texas News Dozens of firefighters in Blanco County are battling the heat and winds, trying to extinguish a quickly ...

Texas is parched and hot. Again. On the heels of a very wet 2007, about 95 percent of Texas is now in some stage of drought, with a sliver of two northwestern Panhandle counties garnering the worst status - ...

A 175-acre brush fire threatened at least 20 homes on the Burnet-Blanco County line Tuesday.

Let me offer a modest suggestion for beating the oppressive heat now baking our area - take a boat ride down the Colorado River on lovely Lake Buchanan.

In addition to the announcement of the winners of five of 17 board seats, the Pedernales Electric Cooperative annual meeting Saturday in Johnson City included the release of unaudited earnings results by Chief ...

Chairman Will S. Moursund and President & CEO Gary Gruben are pleased to announce the construction of a new banking facility for Cattleman's National Bank in Blanco, Texas.

At their June 9 meeting, trustees of the Blanco Independent School District voted to appoint Blanco Middle School principal Dr.

Newborn girl left at San Marcos fire station A newborn baby girl was left at San Marcos Fire Station #4 on Broadway Street about 1:30 p.m. on Saturday.

Magi Real Estate Services held a preview event May 21 of the Brass Funds' Gateway project off Interstate 10 across from the Dominion.

The Texas Hill Country's geographical resemblance to the South of France is responsible for the amazing growth of two agricultural industries long associated with the storied province of Provence wine grapes, ...

The San Antonio Housing Authority's board of commissioners Thursday approved up to $3.6 million to remediate mold contamination at a near-North Side senior apartment complex.

Blanco State Park is adding a new staff position and repairing facilities, thanks to increased funding provided by the Texas Legislature.

Our fellow blogger king Michael make me reflect on the era his grandfather came from that I got to experience the tail end of.

Comal County commissioners reinstated the countywide burn ban Thursday after Fire Marshal Wayne Ellington told them that brush in the Hill Country is drying to critical levels.

It takes something special for a Mexican restaurant to stand out in a city known the world over for its delectable enchiladas.