Gateway to the Hill Country and Highland Lakes Region

 

 

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Gateway beautification project begun

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Glynis Crawford Smith/The Highlander

The two-year project to beautify the intersection that welcomes visitors to Burnet County began officially Tuesday, Dec. 27. On hand to see work begin at the intersection of US 281 and Texas 71 are, from left, first row, Burnet County Sheriff-elect Calvin Boyd; volunteers Shannon Heep, Isaac Pittenger and Soc Gonzalez; Burnet County Precinct 4 Commissioner Joe Don Dockery and Stephen Schmidt, maintenance supervisor for the Johnson City District of the Texas Department of Transportation, and above, staff of Mills Services of Kingsland that are donating arborist services: Lane Webb, Paulino Espinosa, company owner Bradlee Mills and Dylan Linderman.

By Glynis Crawford Smith

The Highlander

The two-year highway beautification project for the intersection of US 281 and Texas 71 began with a groundbreaking Tuesday, Dec. 27.

The site has been called the Gateway to the Hill Country and Highland Lakes Region and described as a “welcome mat” at the threshold of traffic from seasonal visitors from within Texas and from far beyond Texas borders.

As such, it was endorsed during the spring and summer by the Burnet and Llano County Commissioners Courts, the cities of Marble Falls, Granite Shoals and Burnet, along with most of the area's cities and counties. The project was proposed by Citizens for Scenic Texas Highways (CSTH) in a landscape partnership with the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) Adopt-A-Highway program.

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