JENNIFER FIERRO • PICAYUNE STAFF

BURNET — When visiting the Bluebonnet Festival website, one of the tabs reads “Like No Other.”

And according to Suzanne Brown, committee chairwoman, it’s fitting. Continue reading “LOCALS LOVE US: Bluebonnet Festival is ‘like no other’”

DANIEL CLIFTON • PICAYUNE EDITOR

BURNET — Conway Laxson can’t recall the exact date he first laid eyes on a P-51 Mustang, but he knew he was in love with the plane as several streamed into sight across the Italian skies about 70 years ago. Continue reading “Spicewood veteran has been waiting 70 years for this flight”

DANIEL CLIFTON • PICAYUNE EDITOR

MARBLE FALLS — They can’t wait to show of their jumping skills. Even after Colt Elementary School physical education teacher Debby Johnson tells the fourth-graders they can stop jumping rope, the students keep going. Continue reading “Colt Elementary students get jumping for their hearts and others”

JENNIFER FIERRO • PICAYUNE STAFF

BURNET — A lack of applicants is the reason the Miss Burnet Bluebonnet Scholarship Pageant has been postponed from Feb. 28 until April.

Pageant director Danisa Scott announced the change Feb. 24. Continue reading “Miss Burnet Bluebonnet pageant postponed due to lack of entries”

DANIEL CLIFTON • PICAYUNE EDITOR

MARBLE FALLS — The check was a welcome one to Sam Pearce, the director of The Helping Center of Marble Falls. Continue reading “Burnet County Farm Bureau makes food pantry donations”

JENNIFER FIERRO • PICAYUNE STAFF

MARBLE FALLS — It’s fitting that Faith Academy senior quarterback Magnum Burcham signed to play football for the Southwestern Assemblies of God University Lions, Flames head coach Randy Denton said. Continue reading “Faith Academy quarterback signs to play football at Christian school”

DANIEL CLIFTON • PICAYUNE EDITOR

MARBLE FALLS — Gavin Smith holds the basketball under his arm. He’s looking at one of his players, Taylor Johnson, at the top of the key. Between them stands Jonathan Estrada, who is several inches taller than Taylor. But Smith isn’t concerned about Taylor beating him to the net, not just yet. Continue reading “Marble Falls ISD Special Olympians taking a shot at basketball title”

CONNIE SWINNEY • PICAYUNE STAFF

HOOVER’S VALLEY — When 14-year-old Joshua Brown visited Baja, Mexico, as a missionary, he knew he had found his calling.

“We went around and witnessed to others and got souls saved,” he said. “The Lord told me to be a missionary. Witnessing to people is my favorite.” Continue reading “Smoking for Jesus program features missionaries, music and entrepreneurs”

CONNIE SWINNEY • PICAYUNE STAFF

MARBLE FALLS —  As Marble Falls annexes several hundred acres south of the city for proposed private development, residents on Lake Travis are calling for a halt to new water contracts because of record drought conditions and dwindling lake levels along the Colorado River. Continue reading “Low lake levels raise concern over Marble Falls development”