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Come on cool weather, come on “soup season,” and come on to Elgin’s Empty Bowl Project! Mark your calendar now for Saturday, November 16—between 11 a.m. and 1:30 p.m.—and come
Read moreThe Hogeye Festival celebrates all things swine and our great community with events throughout the month of October in downtown Elgin. Every Thursday in October, the community is invited to Think
Read moreWith a click of a mouse you can be matched with just about anything or anybody on line. Simple, right? But what if you’re a struggling family facing a crisis
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On Sunday, October 6, from 11:30 a.m. to 3 p.m., the Coupland Civic Organization (CCO) will hold its annual Choo Choo Fest, a fundraiser for the restoration of the CCO’s
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Last week, students at Neidig Elementary School learned the importance of simply saying hello. Neidig Elementary School participated in Start With Hello Week, a nation-wide initiative by the organization Sandy
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On Saturday, Smithville celebrated its second annual Wingfest & Chili Cook-A-Roo, where teams of chicken wing and chili chefs faced off in competition with their best recipes. The festival also
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Smithville held the fifth annual Bastrop/Fayette County Alzheimer’s Walk on Saturday. Several participants gathered for the two-mile walk, which was sponsored by Alzheimer’s Texas at the Towers’ Nursing Center. The
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Elgin, and the dry cleaning business, have changed a lot over the past half-century; for example, people tend to dress a lot more casual nowadays, Debbie Webb has observed. However,
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