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A team from Southstar Development Partners has been working with the developers of Skywater to solidify the long term prospects of the project. Thad Rutherford, VP of Project Management for Southstar, said they have had “no problem getting interest in Horseshoe Bay and Skywater” from potential investors, but he is realistic about the difficulty of the current economic climate. Over the past months, Southstar has conducted a series of meetings with Skywater property owners, HSB Resort members who have upgraded to include Skywater privileges, the Resort leadership, contractors and City of Horseshoe Bay officials to obtain a comprehensive understanding of the project and to put together a financial plan. IBC Bank of San Antonio is continuing to fund the build out of Phase 3, including the roads, utilities and finished lot work.

Ten years ago, a Llano County jury found Bobby Wayne Woods guilty of capital murder for killing an 11 year old girl in Hood County, and the judge sentenced Woods to death for the crime. Hours before Woods was set to die last week on October 23, the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals granted a motion to stay the execution. Woods’ new appellate attorneys, Maurie Levin and Robert C.

On October 30, 1938, Orson Welles causes a nationwide panic with his broadcast of War of the Worlds —a realistic radio dramatization of a Martian invasion of Earth. Welles was only 23 years old when his Mercury Theater company decided to update H.G. Wells’ 19th-century science fiction novel for national radio.

CASA for the Highland Lakes Area suffered two significant grant cuts, totaling almost $34,000 as a result of federal funding cuts. Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA), a nonprofit organization, provides an invaluable, mandated service to traumatized children who have been removed from their homes by the state due to abuse and neglect.

Local landscape and architectural lighting company, NIGHTSCENES, is well-known in the hill country and central Texas for their international award-winning exterior lighting designs. Paul Gosselin, Sr., president of the Kingsland based corporation is taking those unique and artful designs a step further by adding “special event” lighting to their extensive list of exterior lighting choices.

At its Oct. 20 meeting, the Pedernales Electric Board of Directors took an important step in supporting environmental efforts, unanimously passing a resolution setting a goal for 30 percent of its power supply to come from renewable energy sources by 2020. The resolution, submitted by District 7 Director Dr. Patrick Cox, District 3 Director Kathryn Scanlon and District 6 Advisory Director Dr.

For over 15 years, Karen Carson has been appreciated by the congregation of The Church at Horseshoe Bay in her role as Organist and Business Manager. Carson began piano and organ lessons at the age of 6, and at 8 she played for the children’s department in the Parkside Baptist Church in Denison, Texas, her hometown.

The Church at Horseshoe Bay WOW ladies are pleased to announce the 3rd Annual WOW Fall Retreat to be held on Wednesday and Thursday, November 5th and 6th at beautiful Camp Buckner. Camp Buckner has modern guest rooms and is only thirty minutes from Horseshoe Bay. This event is open to all ladies who wish to attend, so get a group of friends together and join us for Christian fellowship, fun skits, beautiful music and spiritual renewal.

On Sunday October 12, members of the International Club met at Quail Point to share a potluck lunch and experience the thoughts and ideas of their guest speaker.  Logan Wagner is an architect, a professor at Texas A&M University, an avid archeologist, and a builder who uses old Spanish ideas of construction with modern techniques.  He is a design build architect whose company, Alarife, develops projects using natural materials just as many ancestors did.

Although BYCs - aka “Buried Yard Cans” - have been out of vogue for generations, times are such that they may deserve renewed consideration when one is allocating money (capital) for growth on the one hand or at least preservation on the other. Here we are on Monday evening, 13 days into what’s typically the stock market’s worst month - Black October - wondering how to make sense out of the panic and pandemonium that currently prevails. The $700 billion bailout is too little, too late; there are more ailing banks set to fail; the bailout does nothing to stem the sub-prime mortgage defaults or make credit available to cash-starved companies and consumers; the credit contagion is spreading like wildfire through thousands of retailers; and, credit-card companies are next in line to fail. Through October 10, we’d seen the single worst week in the history of the Dow and two of the three greatest one-day crashes in stock market history.