Burnet County News

More than 1,000 Burnet County residents have signed a petition opposing rules that have been proposed by the Central Texas Groundwater Conservation District.

A 41-year-old woman charged in the April 30 bomb threat at Marble Falls Elementary School is scheduled for arraignment July 17 in the 33rd Judicial District Court and, according to her attorney, she will plead not guilty.

Burnet County commissioners decided Tuesday to back a grant application that would fund a county-wide household hazardous waste program.

A 62-year-old Burnet County man has been arrested for shooting his son Sunday, according to the Burnet County sheriff's office.

Burnet County Sheriffa s deputies have arrested five people for allegedly selling crack out of a house in Granite Shoals.

The Smithwick Cemetery Associationa s former treasurer turned herself into Travis County Jail and faces a third-degree felony charge in connection with the theft of about $60,000 from the cemetery board.

Burnet County is about to go on line with a crime analysis database the likes of which is available to few areas of the nation.

A petition to place on the November general election ballot an option to establish Emergency Service District #8 has been verified and could appear on the agenda of the Burnet County Commissioners Court as early as the Tuesday meeting.

Uproar among parents critical of implementing a teen curfew in Meadowlakes has led the city council to set the agenda item for a later date and a larger venue.

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The Burnet County jail expansion, flood maps of the Buchanan Dam area, and a federal grant program that could fund some Burnet County Historical Commission projects were discussed Tuesday at the Burnet County Commissioners meeting.

The Llano County Commissioners Court set a burn ban Monday citing high winds, hot weather, and a dearth of rain in the foreseeable future.

Along US 281 on the hillside just south of the Colorado River in Marble Falls, an historical marker honors Oscar J. Fox, the Western composer who set existing poems to original music to create such cowboy standards as Git Along Little Dogies.

Staff photo by Hal Brown Burnet County Fair and Rodeo Association members unveiled the sign bearing the rodeo arenaa s new name, the Cody Orman Arena, during Saturdaya s performance of the Burnet Rodeo.

By Jade Ortego Killeen Daily Herald Several Maxdale and Ding Dong residents are opposing a proposed power line project for aesthetic and financial reasons.

A Cessna aircraft lies upside down at Burnet Municipal Airport Friday morning. The plane was lofted by winds in severe weather Thursday evening, flipped and pushed against a tree.

Heavy rains from a strong supercell storm hit hard Thursday night. Around 6 p.m. the storm popped up northwest of Burnet and Coryell counties.

The June 11 storms hit Burnet hard. "Lots of trees down. At least one roof completely off and another severely damaged, planes at the airport, lots of wind damage.

The storms that blew through the Hill Country and into Austin did not contain a tornado.

For storm photos CLICK HERE A storm that swept into northern Burnet County Thursday night overturned RVs and airplanes and left roadways littered with tree limbs, but there were no initial reports of serious injuries.