Community News

The Texas Department of Motor Vehicles (TxDMV) is planning for the future following a major computer equipment replacement project in all 254 Texas counties. The upgrade is a step toward a more efficient registration and titling process for Texas drivers.Over the past seven months, TxDMV and its vendors installed more than 2,600 new workstations, including PCs, monitors, printers, routers, keyboards, mice and cabling in about 500 offices from one side of Texas to the other.With this new equi ...

Congratulation to Linda Morris, a teacher at Richland Springs Independent School District, for winning the $500.00 give away sponsored by the Richland Springs Volunteer Fired Department

The Richland Springs Coyote Sports Banquet will be held this Friday, May 11th in the RS Cafetorium. Meal will be at 6:00 p.m. The Banquet will start at 7:00 p.m. It’ll be $5.00 a plate for everyone. Our student athletes in grades 6-12 will eat for free. We’ll be serving Bar B Que and all the fixings.We will be honoring ALL our student athletes from Jr High through High School.

The 74th Annual San Saba County Professional Rodeo is scheduled for June 1st and 2nd and the Rodeo Parade is returning to the 5:00 p.m. time on opening day of the rodeo.This year's theme is RETRO: Remembering the Good Old Days and it is the hope of the Parade Chairman, Sandy McHorse, that every business, club, bicycle and motorcycle group, church, golf cart owner, cowboy and cowgirl, whether original or drugstore, will participate.

The San Saba Armadillo Varsity Basketball players will be having a pancake supper May 10th from 5pm-7pm at Bon Ami to raise money for a team basketball camp at Southwestern University in June. Players will be selling tickets or tickets can be purchased at Bon Ami. You don’t have to have a ticket to participate,just show up and join us and support your Armadillos.

Each year Central Texas Telephone Cooperative gives donations to nineteen volunteer fire departments and EMS organizations within its service area. Pictured above are Jeffery Bates, representing the Richland Springs Volunteer Fire Department, Larry Cottrell, representing the Elm Grove Volunteer Fire Department, Carey Amthor, representing Central Texas Telephone, Anthony Cantu, representing the San Saba Volunteer Fire Department and Kelly and Kristin O’Neal, representing the San Saba Co ...

Luis Vega, a junior at San Saba ISD, won 2nd at Regional in Odessa in the Triple Jump with a distance of 45-08.25. He will compete at the State Track meet in Austin on Friday, May 11th at 3 p.m.

On Sunday, May 6th, at around 6:45 a.m., a one vehicle crash on Highway 16 south at the Buffalo Creek Crossing, cost the life of a local high school senior and injured a second. San Saba County Sheriff’s Office, Texas DPS Troopers, and San Saba Fire/Rescue and EMS responded to the scene.

Get ready for the “San Saba Pecan Bottom Concert Series!” The second one is this Saturday, May 12, 2012 at Risien Park and admission is free! Gates open at 7:00 p.m. with handmade hamburgers from Bon Ami, Texas wine from Fiesta Winery, Texas micro-brewed beer from the Bar D Brewhouse, and pecan delights from Oliver Pecan with a 40 x 40 dance floor.

Thomas Smithhart with his first picking of tomatoes this year.