Nearly 109,000 Pedernales Electric Cooperative (PEC) customers were without power Monday as a major winter storm wreaked havoc on the state’s self-sufficient electrical grid during the weekend, forcing it into an emergency state of operations.

After hearing the good news that COVID-19 cases had dropped below 15 percent and hospitals were once again doing elective surgery, Burnet city council members spent most of their time on Tuesday, Feb. 9 deciding how the city will look.

Former Burnet County Court at Law Judge William Randolph “Randy” Savage passed away Sunday, Feb. 7, at the age of 76.

Due to lack of electricity to 86 percent of homes, Llano County officials have issued a disaster declaration Feb. 16 to assist residents in their effort to deal with outages and shortages prompted by several days of winter storm conditions.

Recently, The Operation Round-Up Board of Directors at Central Texas Electric Cooperative approved two grants to support local Meals on Wheels programs. The Gillespie County Committee on Aging, locally known as the Golden Hub, provides nutritious meals to seniors in and around Fredericksburg.

A group with its eyes on the aggregate industry has offered input to state legislators about the impact of its pace of production. Following submission of a report, Texans for Responsible Aggregate Mining (TRAM) provided expert witnesses recently during meetings hosted by the Texas House Interim Committee on Aggregate Production Operations (HIC-APO).