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CASTELL - It had been awhile since I'd visited this Hill Country hamlet on the Llano River, so when I wandered into the Castell General Store last Saturday, I asked co-owner Randy Leifeste about ...

A version of this story ran in the July / August 2023 issue. On the south banks of the Llano River, the Castell General Store hosts its bimonthly “Drinking with Jesus” church service. Even with dogged ...

For some years, the Castell General Store was home to a rooster named Cockaroo and a novelty faux-taxidermy fish called a Big Mouth Billy Bass. You remember those, right? A plastic mounted fish that ...

CASTELL — Duke the rooster is no longer among the living attractions at the Castell General Store but his legend lives on in this tiny town located in Llano County, about 100 miles south-southwest of ...