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 Read more…
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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 Read more…
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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 Read more…
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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 Read more…
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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. Read more…
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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 Read more…
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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 Read more…
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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 Read more…
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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 Read more…
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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 Read more…
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