Fun always continues . . . at last week’s San Saba Chamber of Commerce’s Hunter’s Welcome and SSVFD annual Hunter’s Steak Supper

Cassandra Merriman, Executive Director of the Chamber of Commerce, and Deryl Hoyt, Jr., owner and broker of Hoyt Real Estate, set up and manned the table for the free Hunter’s bags and the raffle tickets for sale which benefit the Chamber’s Scholarship Fund.

Colony Memorial Cemetery Assoc. receives donation

Colony Memorial Cemetery Association has received donations from Eleanor Johnson in memory of Bill Owen, Jr.

Happy Herman's Hideaway

Hello, my lovely San Saba friends, and how are you? I sure hope you have had lollipop dreams and ice cream days since last we spoke. Oh wait, I am wishing you a diabetic coma, obesity, sludge in your arteries and long visits with Dr. Whiting…let me rephrase that…hope you had a nice week.

Hill Country Naturalist

In spite of our recent cold spell, it is still a few weeks before winter officially arrives. The two times of the year that show the greatest changes in the local landscape are the beginning of winter and the beginning of spring.

The “Pecan Food Show Champion Recipes, 2020 edition”

The “Pecan Food Show Champion Recipes, 2020 edition” is now available at Alamo Pecan, Oliver Pecan and the Agri-Life Extension Office on the first floor of the courthouse.

TxDOT Collects Traffic Counts in Brownwood District

Through Thursday, November 18th, the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) will be collecting data in multiple locations throughout the nine-county Brownwood District.

LBJ National Historical Park Announces New Virtual Tour of the Texas White House

Lyndon B. Johnson National Historical Park is excited to announce the debut of a new, interactive virtual tour of the first floor of the Texas White House. As a boy, Lyndon Johnson knew the home of his Uncle Clarence and Aunt Frank Martin as "the big house on the river."

Jordan Cattle Auction

Receipts totaled 7,049 head. The market this week moved a lot higher with a choice offering of cattle on hand. The 350-450 lbs steers sold $10-$15 higher with the balance of the stocker steers selling $5-$10 higher with 9 seters 507 lbs at $172.00 ($872.04).

More than $7 Billion paid in second round of USDA Coronavirus Food Assistance Program

U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue announced October 26th that in the first month of the application period, the USDA Farm Service Agency (FSA) approved more than $7 billion in payments to producers in the second round of the Coronavirus Food Assistance Program.

Your Texas Agriculture Minute

Rural Texas adds to important Census count Counting every person living in the United States is a huge undertaking. The U.S. Census recently finished its data collection. In Texas, the final response rate was 99.9 percent. Almost 63 percent of folks in our state self-responded to the Census.