Wayne and Tammy Manning  of Kingsland, Texas and William Charles and Kim Farrand IV of Ogdensburg, New York are pleased to announce the engagement of their daughter, Cassandra Lee Farrand to Dusty Don Hohhman, son of Donavon and Julie Hohhman of Llano, Texas and Jay and Pebbles Irvin of Roswell, New Mexico.

The May meeting of the Llano Woman’s Culture Club honored past presidents of the club at its annual President’s Day Tea. Former presidents who were honored were Martha Long, Sarah Franklin, Dorothy Murchison, Patsye Parker, Gayle Hardaway, Billie Laning, Julia Hilbun, Janice Shannon and Carol Dodgen. Sue Prime, past president from 1999 to 2001 was unable to attend.

Kingsland Masonic Lodge #1424 gave out two scholarships last night at the Kingsland Masonic Lodge to two Llano High School students. Recipients of the $2000 scholarships were Cierra Jordan and Alec Hasty.  The scholarships will be used to further the education of these two students. Kingsland Masonic Lodge raises money through raffles, aluminum can collection and selling food at various events.

Commissioners tabled the burn ban on Monday, May 13, which leaves it off for now. It will be reconsidered at the next meeting, and most likely every meeting through the summer. Llano County ESD #1 board members reported on the taxing entity’s financial status. Currently, the ESD has an excess of funds, and reported that they are working to decrease the excess, but the process is methodical because of strict taxing laws.

On Wednesday, May 8, at about 7am the Llano County Sheriff's Office, assisted by the Llano Police Department and ATF, executed a search warrant at 202 E. Navarro in Llano. Over 400 grams of methamphetamine was recovered along with several items of paraphernalia. There were two arrested for 1st Degree Felony charges of possession of methamphetamine, 34 year old Michael Vincent Riggs Jr and 25 year old Maranda Ann Smith.

The Annual Powder Puff game will be Thursday, May 16 at 7:00 PM – Jacket Stadium. This year’s game will be sure to impress . . . as much as last year’s BU vs. Kansas State match up? Hmmmm I don’t know . . . but you won’t want to miss this fun and fiercely competitive event.

Mikel Virdell defeated incumbent mayor, Mike Reagor, by more than 170 in the May 11 election. The two went head to head in 2009, with Reagor winning by about 60 votes. After two terms in office, however, Reagor will hand over the reins to Virdell, who promised to move the city forward in a debate held between the two candidates.

This Saturday, May 11, will mark 60 years that Lee Duncan has been a barber in Llano, not only in the same shop, but at the same chair. Lee and his wife Virginia were born and raised right here in Llano; and have always lived here, with the exception of Lee, who left for a brief career in the Navy.

On Thursday, May 2 an Amber Alert was issued for 13-year-old Savannah Sloan and 15-year-old Misty Sloan after they were reported missing from a residence in Kingsland. At the time the Amber Alert was issued, 33-year-old Keith Mize was named as a person of interest. Later that evening, Llano Sheriff's Office received a tip.

Donny Stewart and Scottie Bryan Scoggins plead no-contest in the 2011 death of a Llano County inmate on Thursday, May 2 before District Judge Dan Mills. The two former Llano County jailers accepted a plea agreement in the case; both were charged with a Class A Misdemeanor for deadly conduct and both will serve jail time. The two were indicted by a Llano County Grand Jury in July 2012.

The Faith Academy tennis Flames are like the UCLA basketball Bruins of the 1960s and ‘70s; the Yankees, 1949 to 1953; the Canadiens, 1956-60; and the Celtics, 1959-1966. Champions all, with repeat, three-peat, four-peat, five-peat, and “for Pete’s sake” in the mind of their foes. The Lady Flames, April 25 in Waco, captured their fourth TAPPS-2A state tennis title in a row and sixth in the last seven year (The boys won, too, and we will tell you all about their big victory very soon.) ...

LLANO to LUBBOCK—That itinerary probably tells you you are not going to learn anything about Niagara Falls, or Bryce Canyon, or Goliad. If the kids in the back say, “Are we there yet?” I can’t blame them, but these are my paragraphs, for now anyway. It was in Brady, 54 miles into the trip, I saw my first jewel: the Palace Theater.

LUBBOCK—Every athletic career has to end—whether it’s at the Super Bowl or the discus ring on the Texas Tech campus. And the athlete, in the crowd of humanity, always seems to be the first to move on. “This way, please. Next.” On April 26, it was Cierra Jordan’s turn for her high school days to conclude, as she threw the disc for the third and final time at the Region I Meet.

LUBBOCK—When you’ve won 18 races in the long journey of a track season, from San Saba to Bandera to Stephenville, third place is usually not the most indelible memory. But when it comes at the Region I Meet, against some of the state’s incomparable speedsters, you know this is a moment (and a half) in time. “They deserve everything they got,” beamed Llano’s excitable and talented head track coach, Jarrett Vickers.

On April 16, 2013, the Llano FFA Chapter went the San Saba District FFA Convention in Goldthwaite, Texas. The two members that attended the convention were Kathryn Cunningham and Julianna Ball. These two individuals served as the voting delegates and also received the awards for Llano FFA. The awards they received were 1st in Meats Judging 2013, 1st in Livestock Judging 2013, 3rd Jr.