Burnet County votes to contest water plan
The Burnet County Commissioners Court voted
last week to seek a contested case hearing before the Texas Commission on
Environmental Quality on the Lower Colorado River Authority’s proposed new
Water Management Plan. Read more... |
Incumbents Klose, Hopkins, Turner win new Bertram council terms
Incumbents Kim Klose, Glen Hopkins and Pat Turner won
re-election to the Bertram City Council, according to unofficial returns released Saturday. Read more... |
Williams wins open school board seat; Feild re-elected
Former Burnet Consolidated Independent School District
principal Charles Williams and incumbent board president Andy Feild rolled to
comfortable victories according to unofficial returns in the board of trustees election Saturday. Read more... |
Newcomers Shanes, Fortin elected to Burnet council as incumbents ousted
Burnet voters elected newcomers Mary Jane Shanes and Derek
Fortin to the city council Saturday, according to officials returns, in the process ousting incumbents Pat
Riddell and Buddy Coker in the wake of an ill-advised free golf vote that
angered a significant number of residents. Read more... |
Burnet officials give State of the Community
It’s all good, Burnet Mayor Gary Wideman and school
Superintendent Keith McBurnett told a packed gathering of residents and
community leaders last week at a state of the community lunch. Read more... |
TxDOT discounts implosion danger
The Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) has said only
one business faces any possibility of damage from using explosives to demolish
the old US 281 bridge, and a public hearing to explain the process and take
questions from residents and business owners will not be held. Read more... |
Safety trumps development in county vote
Precinct 1 Commissioner Bill Neve’s safety-over-economic
development argument won out Tuesday as county commissioners prioritized their
list of future transportation projects. Read more... |
Sales tax revenue on increase
Both Burnet and Llano counties have started 2013 off with
some good economic news, as both will see increases in the amount of December
sales tax allocations they receive this month compared to last year. Read more... |
Texas comptroller releases biennial revenue estimate
Texas Comptroller Susan Combs released the state’s Biennial
Revenue Estimate, showing the state is projected to have $101.4 billion
available for general-purpose spending during the 2014-15 biennium. Read more... |
Miller terminated as GShoals CM
In a special meeting Thursday night, the Granite Shoals City Council exercised a contract option to terminate the city manager at the end of a year. Read more... |
