Granite Shoals News

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.

Because severe drought in the region has steadily depleted the water reservoirs that supply drinking water to 1.1 million Central Texas residents, the Lower Colorado River Authority initiated mandatory water restrictions Thursday and most communities in the Highland Lakes are taking action.

City water and septic. Tenant pays electric & water. Stove & Refrigerator. New in 2000, 1917 sq ft manufactured home.

The hamlets of Cottonwood Shores and Granite Shoals sit only a few miles from each other on the shores on Lake LBJ.

The hamlets of Cottonwood Shores and Granite Shoals sit only a few miles from each other on the shores on Lake LBJ.

Cities up and down the Colorado River, including Marble Falls, are being asked to join in a petition to change rules that have stood for a decade against releasing discharge from wastewater treatment plants into the watershed.

Firefighters battled a three-bedroom fire Friday afternoon at 210 Neal Ln. in Spicewood.

Two Granite Shoals residents are in the Burnet County Jail after police arrested them Wednesday morning on charges of manufacturing and delivery of cocaine.