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Here are the 2017 Locals Love Us results of people, places, and events voted the BEST of the Highland Lakes by The Picayune and 101HighlandLakes.com readers and KBEY 103.9 FM Radio Picayune listeners. BEST THINGS TO DO ART GALLERY LLANO AREA: The Workshop BURNET AREA: Daniel Adams Art Gallery (Buchanan Dam) MARBLE FALLS AREA: Marta…
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MARBLE FALLS — The Marble Falls High School choir program is known for its high standards and effort to continuously raise those standards. Last year, choir students — under the direction of Bryce Gage and Jenny Lynn Hodges — pushed themselves even further outside their comfort zones when they tackled the musical "Fiddler on the…
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BURNET — For the past 17 years, Tex Copsetta has charged out of the sheriff’s office carrying his wheel gun and looking to make many a bad man rethink his actions. And the veteran gunslinger has no thoughts of slowing down. “I’m still loving this now as much as I did 17 years ago,” he…
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KINGSLAND — When a new board took over the operation of the Kingsland Community Center, all the members wanted to do was provide events that were affordable to families not be recognized for anything more. So when president Wendy Taylor was told the center won the Locals Love Us award for favorite Kingsland club or…
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BURNET — When Cindi Ashford-Fry of The Picayune and KBEY 103.9 FM Radio Picayune stepped into Burnet County District Clerk Casie Walker’s office, Walker admitted she was a little bewildered. Not by Ashford-Fry’s appearance but the reason for the visit. “She handed me this award, and I immediately thought she might be in the wrong…
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KINGSLAND — With about 20 years in public education, Packsaddle Elementary School receptionist Regina Beauchamp is no stranger to life in the front office. But she admitted to being surprised when she learned The Picayune readers and KBEY 103.9 FM Radio Picayune listeners selected her as the 2016 Locals Love Us favorite receptionist in the…
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MARBLE FALLS — How does a high school English teacher take classic pieces of literature and offer them in a way that engages today’s technological-age students? For Marble Falls High School English teacher Lauren Berkman, it’s all about making the classics — or any reading — relevant. “I try to pull in things that are…
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MARBLE FALLS — When Jon Clark and the Marble Falls High School theater students decided to tackle “Fright Night Theatre” two years ago, they weren’t going in for a “cute” or “fun” haunted house. They wanted to scare the pants off people. After the opening year in 2014 during Moonlight Madness, a shop-local event, the…
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KINGSLAND — Several months ago, members of the Packsaddle Elementary School Parent-Teacher Organization realized their children were missing a valuable part of their education: a functioning playground on campus. So they decided to raise money to repair and clean up the existing one to make it useful once more for families. As a result, residents…
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BURNET — Burnet Post Office employee Janis Spears still laughs about a conversation she had shortly after moving to the city. She was working the window one day when a customer asked her who she was and where she was originally from — to which Spears replied, “Lampasas.” “Well,” she recalled the customer answering, “that’s…