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Thu
29
Dec

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.

Wed
21
Sep

2,770 children go hungry here

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An estimated one in six people live in Burnet County live in “food insecure” homes.

By Lew K. Cohn, Managing Editor
The Highlander

According to FeedingTexas.org, there are 2,770 children at risk of hunger in Burnet County as an estimated one in six people live in what are termed “food insecure” homes.

A food insecure home is one in which “consistent access to adequate food is limited by a lack of money and other resources at times during the year,” according to FeedingTexas.org, formerly known as the Texas Food Bank Network, a non-profit, statewide 501(c)(3) organization which works to feed the hungry throughout the state.

Burnet County's numbers are on par with the state as 16.9 percent of Burnet County residents and 17 percent of Texas residents overall are living in “food insecure” homes. 28.2 percent of children live in these homes, which accounts for the 2,770 children noted earlier in this article.

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