Three Lampasas nursing homes have received funding through the Health Resources and Services Administration, operating under the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, as a reward for successfully reducing COVID-19-related infections and deaths among residents.

Texans don’t always deal with the prolonged stretches of freezing temperatures that our neighbors to the north experience, but temperatures dipping below the freezing mark are common during the winter. In fact, many areas in Texas have already experienced freezing temperatures this year.

Central Texas Veterans Health Care System has begun its COVID-19 vaccination program with the Moderna vaccine, following the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s Emergency Use Authorization.

The Lometa Volunteer Fire Department assisted Santa with his recent visit to Lometa, providing him a ride to bring his North Pole greetings to those gathered for the Hometown Holidays event..

District 54 State Rep. Brad Buckley said he will champion limits to the governor’s executive power, free-market healthcare reform and rural broadband improvements during the upcoming legislative session.

BancorpSouth Bank has announced the signing of a merger agreement with National United Bancshares Inc., the parent company of National United. National United, which was founded in 1889 in Gatesville, operates six fullservice banking offices in the Killeen-Temple, Waco and Austin-Round Rock-Georgetown metropolitan areas – including a branch in Lampasas.

Tony Fernandez holds Kamila Fernandez inside a Christmas tree made of string lights during the recent Christmas on the Creek celebration in W.M. Brook Park.

Lampasas FFA member Erin Nobles’ 2020 Lampasas County Youth Livestock Show grandchampion heifer recently gave birth to twins.

A Lampasas High School senior is one of two Texans selected to receive a $1,000 National FFA SAE Grant. FFA gives grants to help members conduct Supervised Agricultural Experience projects, which all FFA members must complete.

Students in Michele Langford’s fifth-grade class at Hanna Springs Elementary School provided nine boxes full of clothes, pacifiers, bibs, diapers, stuffed animals and other items for children who are brought into foster care. LONESTAR SOCIAL SERVICES FACEBOOK PAGE