
Contributed by Liberty Hill Wildcats The 8th-grade Liberty Hill Lady Wildcats headed to South Austin to play in the Tournament of Hope all Girls tournament. The proceeds from this event benefits Seton Hospital Breast Cancer Center. This was the second time The Lady Wildcats were playing [...]
By Merle Rouillard When Joe Schram was a young boy, he didn’t have much time to get into trouble. When his father, who was a serious outdoorsman, wasn’t taking him fishing, Joe was learning to read from his mother, a teacher, which he could do by the age of three. Born in Mobile, Alabama, Joe [...]
By Merle Bertrand, Leader Sportswriter It’s not quite the Bears vs. the Packers, Texas vs. Oklahoma, or Liberty Hill vs. Burnet, but in minor league football circles, the Austin Vipers vs. the San Antonio Warriors has quickly evolved into a classic grudge match. The two I-35 rivals face off in the Quarterfinal Round of the [...]
By Merle Bertrand, Sportswriter Conventional wisdom states that the average football fan faces three whole months and a long hot summer before the return of the game they love. Conventional wisdom is wrong. The Austin Vipers, a perennially successful AAA-level semi-pro football team, will begin their Xclusive Football League (XFL) playoff drive Saturday night (June [...]
By Chuck Licata Say the words “Cotton Bowl” in most any corner of the state of Texas and most people – especially sports fans – will conjure up images of the Cotton Bowl football game, a bowl game played yearly (sometime around New Year’s Day) after the NCAA Division I football’s regular season is [...]
Posted on 19 May 2013
From LH VFW Post 8200 Ladies Auxiliary Every day is a good day to fly the United States Flag, but June 14 stands out above all the rest because in 1916 President Woodrow Wilson issued a proclamation that officially established June 14 as Flag Day which was the official day that the U.S. flag was [...] Continue Reading
Posted on 17 May 2013
As if finding an Eastern yellow-belly racer, Texas rat snake, and a tarantula aren't enough, this Alligator//er, snapping turtle was found walking by the L.H. cemetery association. He is now safely in the San Gabriel River. Continue Reading
Posted on 17 May 2013
Helga Smith and Mary Litfin were honored by the VFW Ladies Auxiliary at their May dinner in recognition of National Volunteer Appreciation Week. Helga donates crocheted items to the Aux and Mary used to volunteer at the L.H. Public Library. We appreciate these two wonderful and giving ladies very much. They were each given a volunteer pin [...] Continue Reading