After filings, several contested races for school, city elections in Burnet, Llano counties
FROM STAFF REPORTS BURNET — As the filing deadline has passed, a number of school…
Government
LCRA, water group contest upstream dam application
CONNIE SWINNEY • PICAYUNE STAFF GOLDTHWAITE — Several years of strain on water resources caused…
Trio accused of PEC credit card abuse receive probation, $56,000 in fines
FROM STAFF REPORTS JOHNSON CITY — Three people, including two ex-utility company employees and a…
New lead assistant DA has experience in capital murder, death penalty cases
CONNIE SWINNEY • PICAYUNE STAFF LLANO — A prosecutor recently hired by the 33rd/424th Judicial…
LCRA joins with NASA in first-of-its-kind soil study
FROM STAFF REPORTS MARBLE FALLS — The Lower Colorado River Authority is getting an unlikely…
PEC seeking member input on rates, fees with survey, forums
FROM STAFF REPORTS JOHNSON CITY — Pedernales Electric Cooperative officials are asking for co-op members’…
As 2015 starts, Highland Lakes falls toward all-time drought declaration
DANIEL CLIFTON • PICAYUNE EDITOR MARBLE FALLS — Despite a moderate amount of rainfall in 2014,…
Burnet and Llano counties swearing in elected officials on Jan. 1
FROM STAFF REPORTS BURNET — The new year brings some new — and returning —…
US 281 bridge construction winds down as FM 2147 work to begin
JARED FIELDS • PICAYUNE STAFF MARBLE FALLS — The finishing touches are being put on…
Outgoing Burnet, Llano county judges reflect on service
CONNIE SWINNEY • PICAYUNE STAFF BURNET — Two county judges who preside on commissioner’s and…
Phone scam targets Pedernales Electric Cooperative members
FROM STAFF REPORTS JOHNSON CITY — Pedernales Electric Cooperative officials are warning the public regarding…
Drought prompts LCRA to seek OK to halt lake releases for fourth year
SPECIAL TO DAILYTRIB.COM AUSTIN — With parts of Texas in the midst of a persistent,…
ELECTIONS: Yes to BCISD bond; other Burnet County results
FROM STAFF REPORTS BURNET — Burnet Consolidated Independent School District voters approved a $26.7 million…
ELECTIONS: Easy going for Republicans in Llano County
FROM STAFF REPORTS LLANO — With no local Democrats in the mix, Llano County Republicans…
Burnet CISD bond, governor’s race on Election Day ballot
BURNET — Highland Lakes residents can head to the polls Nov. 4 to have an…
Early voting runs Oct. 20-31 for election on Nov. 4
FROM STAFF REPORTS BURNET — Despite a federal judge’s ruling overturning the Texas voter identification…
Texas voter ID law to continue after appellate court ruling Oct. 14
SPECIAL TO DAILYTRIB.COM AUSTIN – The U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals on Oct. 14…
Texas voter identification law in limbo after federal judge’s ruling
CONNIE SWINNEY • PICAYUNE STAFF AUSTIN — Despite uncertainty about the fate of maintaining the…
Texas testing poison to battle feral hogs
CONNIE SWINNEY • PICAYUNE STAFF BURNET COUNTY — Trenton McNiel has trapped and hunted feral…
Voter registration deadline is Oct. 6 for Nov. 4 election
FROM STAFF REPORTS BURNET — People who would like to make their voices known in…
Burnet County to pay inmate’s $280,000 cancer treatment bill
CONNIE SWINNEY • PICAYUNE STAFF BURNET — County commissioners expect to deplete an emergency fund…
LCRA board OKs water plan changes, new downstream reservoir
FROM STAFF REPORTS AUSTIN — The Lower Colorado River Authority began the process of changing…
Rocket company to take off in Briggs
CONNIE SWINNEY • PICAYUNE STAFF BRIGGS — California-based Firefly Space Systems has purchased 200acres in…
Burnet County Extension agent Wade Hibler retiring after three decades
DANIEL CLIFTON • PICAYUNE EDITOR BURNET — After more than three decades of serving communities…