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By Glynis Crawford Smith
The Highlander

County burn bans instituted

By Glynis Crawford Smith

The Highlander

Two local clubs of Lions International began roaring together this month.

On July 1, the Marble Falls Noon Lions Club and the Spicewood Lions Club merged to form the Spicewood & Highland Lakes Lions Club.

The merger gives both clubs greater resources to serve the residents of more than 200 square miles now encompassed by the new club.

BY GLYNIS CRAWFORD SMITH
THE HIGHLANDER

Police said a 54-year-old Marble Falls resident was killed while crossing the highway early Tuesday morning.

BY ALEXANDRIA RANDOLPH/HIGHLAND LAKES NEWSPAPERS

At 5:15 a.m., David Paul Vanscoy was struck by two vehicles while trying to cross the US 281 in the 3100 block in the curve of the roadway near Lowes.

Marble Falls Police Capt. Glenn Hanson said Vanscoy walking from the Motel 6 on the east side of the highway, where he was staying, to the Kwik Chek in the 1000 block of Rural Road 1431, just west of the US 281 intersection, where he worked as a manager.

“He was in the outside southbound lane when he was hit,” Hanson said.

A tan, late 90s model Chevrolet pickup truck struck Vanscoy first, and then a black 2000s model Ford SUV struck him as well. He was pronounced dead at the scene.  

For the full story, see Friday's Highlander.

A late night accident Thursday claimed the life of one person just west of Marble Falls.

The accident occurred when two vehicles collided on Texas Highway 71 near the Burnet and Llano county line at 11:28 p.m. Thursday, July 14, about two miles west of the intersection with U.S. Highway 281.

One man, J. Lee Rethaber, of Kingsland, was killed in the accident. It was unknown what factored into the crash.

BY ALEXANDRIA RANDOLPH/HIGHLAND LAKES NEWSPAPERS

A Burnet County woman pled guilty Tuesday in the murder of her mother, Pamela Ross of Burnet, last year.

Rhonda Gayle Carrell, 40, pled guilty to strangling her 63-year-old mother in Ross' fifth wheel trailer home in the Inks Lake RV Park in Deer Springs. District Judge Allan Garrett sentenced Carrell to 35 years imprisonment, with confinement to commence immediately.

Ross was found dead on the floor of her trailer on Friday, April 3, 2015 by Burnet Fire Department and EMS responders after Johnson City Police, who had picked up Carrell on driving while intoxicated charges, asked local authorities to do a welfare check on Ross.