Community News

By the time you read this, the floodwaters of the Rio Grande will be down in most spots, and the long job of recovery will have begun for thousands of families evacuated from their homes. The back-to-back tropical systems that brought needed rains to Blanco County dumped a year’s worth of rainfall along the Texas-Mexico border.

Writers note: The Johnson City Community Education Foundation is attempting to follow up on all five of the 2009 JCCEF scholarship recipients to provide a "Where are they now?" update for the Johnson City community. Last year’s recipients were Kennedy Bynum, Michael Zurovec, Jessica Moore, Avry Stolzman and Virginia Smith. Virginia Smith will begin her second year at Baylor University this fall as she pursues a degree in elementary education with a minor in ...

YCAP wants to thank all who took time to show support for the future home of the boys and girls club and community recreation center called Youth Community Assistance Program on Sunday, July 11th.We hope to have inspired you. YCAP President, Randy Holland, wants to assure everyone in the community that the recreation center is going to be a 100 percent non-profit organization and will be available to everyone.

Sergeant Gary Lee Weaver of Johnson City, a highly decorated disabled Vietnam Veteran was presented with a beautiful July 4th cake just before the parade on Sunday by several members of the American Legion Memorial Highway Auxiliary Unit 352 of Blanco. The red, white, and blue cake with a large American flag read "Thank You Sergeant Weaver".

There’s been a lot of excitement in the air, as the Youth Community Assistance Program has been vigorously working on renovating their new home at the old Cox Ford Motor Company building at the corner of Nugent and Hwy 290. YCAP is a Blanco County, non-profit organization based out of Johnson City.

The world changed a bit for another Johnson City resident last week. The lady was confined to a wheelchair after breaking her hip, making getting in and out of her home hard as well as hazardous. The Change-the-World team from the First United Methodist Church showed up with lumber and tools, and two days later she had a 27-foot ramp that allowed safe, easy access.

LIBRARY HOSTING A BUSY SUMMER! A group of patrons from the Johnson City Library took a Geology course taught by David Hamm. David taught us Geology 101, Hill Country Geology, and a field trip though the Hill Country. This was a great course, thank you David for being an excellent teacher!

This DVD, along with others produced by the Oral History Committee, is now available for check out at the Blanco Library. Laura Lindeman Caza and Charlene Lindeman Singleton recount growing up on the ranch their grandfather established in Blanco over 100 years ago. They lived the life of typical farm girls, helping with the harvest, milking cows, observing "wash days"

For generations, We The People of the United States of America have had freedoms that no other country has ever been able to match. For generations, men and women of our United States have fought and died for our country so that their and future generations would have a better way of life than what any other country can offer: Freedom.