July 29, 2010

At the July 7 budget workshop meeting, Horseshoe Bay Police Chief Bill Lane briefed the Horseshoe Bay City Council on a proposed new police annex that is under consideration for the 2010-11 fiscal year budget. According to Lane, the new facility would be constructed at the intersection of Cardinal Street and Community Drive near the current police station and City Hall.

Two men were killed Friday morning in a collision that occurred at about 8:30 am on Hwy 71 approximately 1.5 miles east of Marble Falls. Burnet County Pct. 4 Justice of the Peace Edward Cutchin pronounced Woodrow Edward Johnson, 17, of Granite Shoals, and Gary Dean Daniels, 54, of Marble Falls, dead at the scene.

At last week’s meeting of the Horseshoe Bay Property Owners’ Association Board of Directors, Ken Lindgren asked the POA to consider adding a horseshoe pitching area at Quail Point. Lindgren said the cost would be minimal to construct the pits and set up the pitching area – he even offered to do the work himself if needed! The board was generally amenable to Lindgren’s suggestion and said the ground along Twilight might be flat and long enough to accommodate hor ...

A couple of years ago City Councilman Jeff Robinson assembled a small group of people to discuss ways to improve Internet service in Horseshoe Bay. During that time the group has met several times including meetings with all of Internet Service Providers operating within the City along with others that are considering providing service.

Sunday night was the occasion for a surprise birthday party at Russo’s for Horseshoe Bay resident Merry Griffith. Some 85 guests—family and friends from far and near—gathered to honor her and to wish her well on her 60th birthday. Unbeknownst to Merry, her daughter, Stephanie Noss of Shrewsbury, Mass., and her sister, Nancy Ragland of Houston, had been planning the event for months and they managed to pull off a major coup.

The Pedernales Electric Cooperative’s Board of Directors adopted a policy at its meeting last week providing guidance in the event it receives an offer to purchase all or part of the member owned cooperative. “We are not inviting nor are we encouraging proposals,” Director Patrick Cox said, emphasizing that PEC is not for sale.

I cannot believe it has been 25 years since Larry McMurtry wrote Lonesome Dove. Texas Monthly is making a big to-do about it in their July issue, so I ratted around in my book chest and found my copy – 1st edition and signed by the author. It has been 25 years, because my son just turned 29 and he was just a little boy when I was reading the book.

Dr. Logan Wagner, Architecture Professor at Texas A&M University will be the guest speaker at the International Club luncheon meeting on Aug.8 at 12:30 p.m. at Quail Point. Wagner, an author and photographer, will describe the classes he conducted outside of Florence for A&M architecture students and discuss his research on historical urban design.

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Dear Editor: Immoral and Unethical These words are interpreted as: Not conforming to a standard of right behavior. When our government rewards companies, to take their factories overseas, no one can say this is right behavior. When profit becomes more important than people, it is hard to see this as right behavior. Numerous jobs have been phased out and sent overseas leaving thousands of American citizens in dire straights.