Burnet County Commissioners passed a resolution of support for a municipal utility district on a massive development northeast of Lake Buchanan. The development, Clearwater Ranch, is potentially a...
Stock shows gets underway Thursday
Stock show season for young Burnet County livestock exhibitors begins Thursday as the Burnet County Livestock Show kicks off its three-day run. Proceeds from the Burnet show support 4-H and Future...
Real Readers’ Choice results coming soon
The polls have closed and heaps of ballots are being tabulated in the Highland Lakes’ Tenth annual Readers’ Choice awards. The long anticipated results will be released in February, as usual, in a...
Storm’s restaurants co-founder Robbie IraDell Storm dies at 97
Storm’s Restaurants co-founder Robbie IraDell Storm, 97, died Thursday in Lampasas after a short illness. Her son Robbis Storm, of Burnet, said the family was long established in the food business...
Burnet County elected officials sworn in
Bright and early on Jan. 1 Burnet County elected officials met at the courthourse to be sworn in. From left in the front row are Burnet County Sheriff W.T. Smith, 33rd District Court Judge Gil Jon...
Polar bears sighted at Tow
The first day of 2009 was celebrated by six hardy polar bears today. The band dived into 52-degree water at – Hi-Line Lake Resort in Tow. Early snowbirds, friends and family gathered to chee...
Motorcyclist dies in crash with truck
An Austin man was killed in an accident involving a motorcycle and a pickup truck about 2:30 p.m. Tuesday about one mile south of Park Road 4 on US 281. All lanes of the highway were shut down for...
Don’t be unnecessarily alarmed if you see smoke plumes rising near the Eagles Nest subdivision near the first of the year, there is a fire planned there, but it’s legal and permitted by the City of...
by By Hal Brown and Marcie Masterson Highland Lakes Newspapers
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The bottom has fallen out of the recycling market just as Bertram’s recycling center is at an all time high receiving recycled materials. The BRC has run a cost-effective recycling program; it has...
A fast-moving grassfire burned about 350 acres and threatened the south side of Bertram Saturday before it was contained. Close to 200 personnel from 21 area fire departments from as far away as Au...
Virtually all the non-statutorily required services Burnet County offers would be wiped out of the county budget if the state imposes revenue caps in the next legislative session, county commission...
Seton Highland Lakes Hospital Administrator Scott Fuller is back in Burnet after a corporate move to shore up an Arizona hospital was reassessed. Fuller was to have spent six months helping shore ...