On Saturday, March 16th San Saba High School boys competed in a track meet at Mason. This was a highly competitive meet, and these young men should be congratulated on the fine job they did in their first meet. All of our athletes finished at least 12th or better in all of their events.

MONDAY Breakfast: Breakfast pizza or cereal w / graham cracker, juice, milk. Lunch: Steak fingers, carrots, salad, pears, milk. TUESDAY Breakfast: Waffles or cereal w/graham cracker, juice, milk. Lunch: Enchiladas, pinto beans, salad with tomatoes, crackers, pineapple, milk. WEDNESDAY Breakfast: Bacon or sausage with biscuit & gravy or cereal w/ graham cracker, juice, milk. Lunch: Chicken nuggets, mashed potatoes, green beans, mandarin oranges, milk. THURSDAY Breakfast: Muffins or ce ...

The Lampasas County Higher Education Center (LCHEC) has released 2013 applications for the Edward Jones Pursuit of Excellence scholarship (sponsored by Ken McDaniel, Edward Jones Investments, Lampasas) and for the LCHEC scholarship. Both scholarships are for $500. The deadline for both applications is April 5, 2013. Applications must be received in the LCHEC office by that date. The Pursuit of Excellence scholarship is for tuition for college credit courses taken at LCHEC.

The San Saba JH Girls track season is under way with the girls competing in Early and Goldthwaite over the last two weeks. All the girls competed well on cold windy nights and represented San Saba well. The results are: 7th grade Early Meet: Analyn Bohensky – 1st Pole Vault, 1st long Jump, Sydnie Norris – 3rd 100m Dash, Ivonn Franco – 5th 300m Hurdles.

Since our last report we have hosted a tournament, completed our first district game, and will have played our second and third district games before you hear from us again. Back on March 7th, 8th, and 9th we hosted the Mill Pond Classic. On Thursday, the day opened with Mason taking on Goldthwaite with their JV’s and then with their varsities.

Students, faculty and staff arrived back at school on Monday, March 18 after a week of spring break. Students and faculty returned to a busy schedule of events. Junior high tracksters competed at Zephyr on Monday, March 18. The high school golf team coached by Michael Brand traveled to Kerrville on Tuesday, March 19 to compete in a golf tournament.

The high school track team had another successful meet this past Saturday at Mason. The results are as follows: Talli Morrison-1st discus (PR), 2nd shot put (PR) Debra Arredondo-6th long jump Sophia Monroe-1st 200m, 2nd long jump, 2nd 100m Robert Brewer-1st high jump, 1st 200m Trey Shannon-2nd high jump, 2nd 200m EJ Borchers-1st long jump, 5th discus Franco Navarette-1st 800m Stephen Austermann-1st discus, 2nd shot put 800m relay-1st-Brewer, Borchers, Shannon, Austermann 1600m relay- ...

Oh my goodness!! Only 9-weeks of school left! So much to do and so little time to get it all accomplished. The most important task at hand is to make certain that we cover the educational curriculum/Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS) left to cover before state assessment time and before the end of the school year.

Securing your children properly in age and size appropriate child-safety seats, in the back seat of your vehicle, is the most effective thing you can do to protect them in the event of a crash. In fact, in motor vehicle crashes, child safety seats reduce the risk of fatal injury by 71 percent for infants and by 54 percent for toddlers. That's why Texas AgriLife Extension agent, Neal Alexander, is urging all parents and caregivers to attend the child safety seat checkup event on Wednesday, Apri ...

Warm Spring weather is now with us once again. Some wind, but nothing you couldn’t live with, after all it is March. More and more fruit trees are beginning to bloom, just hope a late Easter freeze won’t come along and kill the fruit. If the weather reports are correct there will be some rain later on this week, which of course we can always use. The Bend community lost one of their oldest and dearest person this past Wednesday when Lola Morris pasted away.

Reading Recommendations: Glow, a novel, Jessica Maria Tuccelli In the autumn of 1941, Amelia J. McGee, a young woman of Cherokee and Scotch-Irish descent, and an outspoken pamphleteer of the NAACP, hastily sends her daughter, Ella, alone on a bus home to Georgia in the middle of the night, a desperate measure that proves calamitous when the child encounters two drifters and is left for dead on the side of the road. Ella awakens in the homestead of Willie Mae Cotton, a Root doctor and a former ...

If you happened to have been driving close to County Road 267 in Northwest San Saba county on Saturday night you may have noticed that the beautiful old school house in Elm Grove glowed from afar as voices were lifted in song, rejoicing. You could almost imagine the old schoolhouse in days gone by, our ancestors singing those same songs as they rejoiced in song and fellowship.

That last wonderful rain we received has brought spring to our land. When I walked under one of the oak trees in the pasture, I heard the sound of hundreds of bees buzzing. In spite of my rather haphazard beekeeping experiences, I love the sound of bees at work. There is still not much grass coming up.

Members of the San Saba Garden Club were greeted with an early spring at the clubhouse in Mill Pond Park when they gathered for the March 5, 2013, meeting. Hostesses Marcia Chown, Jimma Byrd and Trish Fullerton, with the help of several anonymous garden nymphs, had forced the clubhouse into bloom with redbud and Bradford pear blossoms, as well as very true-to-life engineered butterflies.

When the first of April comes, you may be on guard to protect yourself from an April Fool's Day prank. But every day of the year, you should be wary of identity thieves. Identity theft is no joking matter. Identity thieves victimize millions of people each year. Identity thieves have some sly tricks to obtain your personal information.