Editorials

Dear Editor, I am totally baffled by what the Llano City Council is planning to do with the Llano City Golf Course. Members of the Council are upset by the increase in the city’s cost to operate the golf course over the last two years. The drought and extreme heat were the obvious causes for the $125,000 expense in 2010 and $135,000 total in 2011. For comparison, Delaware Springs golf course in Burnett was $400,000 in the red in 2011.

Warm music floats around the room, mixing with the lively aroma of fresh coffee, as crowds of people lounge peacefully among the audience. The age of the spectators has infinite range, with the youthful laughter of children chasing one another around the stage merging seamlessly with the wise tones of the building’s mature fans.

Previous articles have laid the groundwork for a clearer understanding of an historical event that occurred in downtown Llano in June, 1882, known as the Carter-Coggin Feud. As already indicated, most of what has been written and said about this event is riddled with many unanswered questions and a lot of highly disputable innuendos and contradictions about not only what happened on that day, but also who was involved and why problems arose in the first place.

Dear Editor, Being eighty nine years old, I can remember happenings at the LanTex Theater in the mid to late thirties. At that time, it was owned and operated by a man and wife named Garner. She worked in the ticket booth, while he managed the finances and made decisions as to what movies to run. They showed Westerns on Saturdays with a 10-chapter serial.

A business advisor for The Texas State Small Business Development Center comes to town typically twice a month and is available for your business needs. The services are FREE to you and include Business Plan Development, Human Resource Management, Profitability, Market & Cash Flow Analysis and much more. Call the Chamber to arrange a confidential session with the advisor.

Coming with every New Year are hopes that the year that lies ahead will be better than the one left behind. We hope times will bring peace and prosperity, both which will allow progress to take hold and thrive. The town of Llano went through a similar experience once the county was rid of some of the earliest problems that plagued its citizens.

I enjoyed LCRA’s General Manager Becky Mortal’s statements this week about water releases. The article exemplifies the disconnection within the departments of her organization as well as with the public. There was a meeting last month with reports that left me with the impression that water was being released to raise the level of Lake Travis is for a particular subdivision.

10, 9, 8, 7….and like that 2011 was over and gone. A new year is always a great way for people to realize there is time for change or new beginnings and time to look ahead without regrets of where you’ve been. Although change is difficult sometimes, it can be a very rewarding.

Dear Editor and United States Postal Service, It is very sad to see the United States Congress destroying the United States Postal Service. The USPS was one of the first departments created by Our Founding Fathers. It has served the citizens of the United States for over 200 years offering the most reliable mail service in the World. It provides six day door to door mail service to all residents of the U.S.

I met a family this last week that had an emergency, and needed to make some immediate decisions for the care of their mother. We were able to work through the situation, but it made me think that there may be other families who might need the information I had just provided to this family Most of us one day in the future will be in a position to help care for our grandparents, parents, spouse, children, or possibly a friend. In this column, I try to provide information that is ...