FROM STAFF REPORTS
BURNET — Voters in Burnet and Llano counties can get a head start on the May 11 elections by casting their ballots during the early voting period from April 29 to May 7.
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Leta M. Dinwiddie, 92, of Llano, Texas, passed away April 19, 2013. She was born July 17, 1920, in Click, Texas, to Sarah Marilla (Coursey) and Edgar Moore.
Continue reading “OBITUARY: Leta M. Dinwiddie, 92, of Llano dies April 19, 2013”
JENNIFER FIERRO • PICAYUNE STAFF
BURNET — After shorting the Career and Technology Education department by more than $300,000, Burnet Consolidated Independent School District officials pledged to re-invest the money over the next two years during a board meeting April 15.
Continue reading “Burnet CISD trustees approve funding for new tractor, Macintosh computer lab”
FROM STAFF REPORTS
KINGSLAND — A 33-year-old Granite Shoals man was referred to mental health officials after a bystander wrestled a .22 caliber rifle from him in a restaurant parking lot, according to a Burnet County Sheriff’s Office report. Continue reading “Bystander wrestles gun away from distraught man”
FROM STAFF REPORTS
BURNET — The names and bank-account numbers of utility customers who have bank drafts on their accounts were inadvertently sent out with bills earlier this week.
Continue reading “City of Burnet accidentally sends out bank-account information with utility bills”
CONNIE SWINNEY • PICAYUNE STAFF
MEADOWLAKES — The price of a proposed ground-level water storage tank has jumped 20 percent over the anticipated cost, and city leaders said they will postpone another water plant-related project and re-route reserves to foot the bill.
Continue reading “Meadowlakes to tighten belt to pay for new water tank”
JARED FIELDS • PICAYUNE STAFF
BURNET — Although the city borrowed more than $2 million to pay for a new fire station during a April 9 regular council meeting, citizens teed up for another agenda item.
Continue reading “Burnet to borrow $2M for fire station; council repeals lifetime golf memberships”
DANIEL CLIFTON • PICAYUNE EDITOR
MEADOWLAKES — The storm that rolled across the Highland Lakes on April 2 left hail and wind damage in its wake, but it also left Marble Falls Area EMS Inc. Executive Director Johnny Campbell a little shaken and very thankful.
Continue reading “Lightning rattles Marble Falls EMS director when bolt strikes his vehicle”
JARED FIELDS • PICAYUNE STAFF
MARBLE FALLS — The April 5 blast that demolished the remaining two piers of the old U.S. 281 bridge might have gone largely unnoticed above water.
But below the surface of Lake Marble Falls, the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department reported 798 fish killed as a result of the explosion.
Continue reading “Almost 800 fish killed in second U.S. 281 bridge blast, TPWD reports”
