Gillespie County had 43 4-H members enter the Rodeo Austin Youth Livestock Show March 12-24. The results are listed below: Breeding Beef Heifers Owen Halfmann — Second place Red Angus, fifth place Red Angus; Keyser Ottmers — First place Hereford; Layna Ottmers — Reserve champion Hereford, first plac...

The Willow City Volunteer Fire and Rescue Department’s annual fundraiser will be held on Saturday, May 1, from 3:30- 8 p.m. at the fire station. Activities will include a live auction, prize drawing giveaways, and an evening pork barbecue meal. To donate items for the auction or prize drawings or fu...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Farm Service Agency (FSA) County Executive Director in Gillespie-Kendall-Blanco counties, Rick Neffendorf, announced that ranchers and livestock producers have until Jan. 30, 2022, to sign up for the Livestock Forage Disaster Program (LFP) for grazing losses...

The Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Agency’s Healthy Texas Youth Ambassador program is seeking motivated, passionate, and hardworking teens to improve th...

Although this is no news flash, the labor shortage has reached the critical stage for businesses in general and particularly for the travel industry. ...

Following a week of vacation, the subject line of an email caught my eye. It read “Delegating Work” and was received from Chamber member Doug Hall wit...