Thousands of fans attended a concert at Burnet's Haley-Nelson Park, featuring Kevin Fowler as part of the summer concert series. The event — coordinated by Double Eagle Entertainment — is funded in part by the city and the economic development corporation to help bring more tourism dollars into the…

In the midst of the pandemic, a number of biking enthusiast have found refuge in Spider Mountain, located on the banks of Lake Buchanan, just outside Burnet. The facility is the state’s first and only lift-served mountain bike park, which takes mountain bikers 350 vertical feet higher than the base…

The Burnet Consolidated Independent School District Board of Trustees voted unanimously during its July 27 regular board meeting to cancel the 2020 bond election scheduled for Nov. 3, 2020 citing COVID-19 uncertainties. The election was originally called for May 2, 2020, but on March 18, due to…

The Baylor Scott & White (BSW) health care system has formally told Llano County it won’t be running Llano Memorial Hospital after the end of the year. Llano County Hospital Authority Board President Robert Wallace told board members Tuesday that Tim Ols, head of BSW’s Hill Country operation,…

Mary Lee Nyquist, age 82 years old, of Burnet went to be with the Lord on July 23, 2020, after complications following emergency surgery. She was born Mary Lee Marx on January 25, 1938, in Burnet, Texas. Her parents were Clarence Bertie Marx (1892-1956) and Lillie Lee Martin Marx (1898-1985) and…

Lillie R. Lujan, 60, of Burnet, passed away on July 12, 2020, unexpectedly with her family by her side. She was born to the late Alberto Rodriguez and is survived by her mother Delia Rodriguez on Sept. 4, 1959 in Ojinaga, Mexico. Lillie was a true Texan by heart where she was raised and laid down…

Years of misplaced priorities led us into this crisis, and in order to reopen Texas schools we need to let science, not politics, guide our decisions. As a candidate, a parent and the daughter of a public school teacher, I know firsthand that this “back-to-school” debate is not only critical, it’s…

The Chad Wessels Playground in Briggs Recent renovations to the playground that is adjacent to the Briggs Community Center are almost complete. The last bit of work necessary is power washing the equipment and that was planned for Monday evening, July 27. The road base material on the ground had…

Highland Lakes Democratic Women welcomed the Rev. George Perry, pastor of St. Frederick Baptist Church in Marble Falls, to their July Zoom meeting. Rev. Perry began by thanking HLDW for inviting him to speak and discussed his for support Black Lives Matter. He supports the Marble Falls…

Donnie Lee Hamilton, 68, passed away on July 20, 2020. A graveside service was held Friday, July 24, 2020 at Bethel Cemetery, Burnet, Texas. Donnie was born in Burnet on May 30, 1952 to Lee Roy Hamilton, Jr and Virgie Bell Hicks. He attended William B. Travis High School. He retired as a union…