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This year’s annual Elgin Rodeo will be a special one, as 2019 marks its 50th running.
Read moreSammey Smith, novelist and a 1948 graduate of Elgin High School, has just released his latest detective mystery novel, The Head Hunters.
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The Smithville Homecoming Organization Banquet brought together alumni from the former all-black Mary A. Brown High School and the current Smithville High School from the fifties up to the present.
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Elgin celebrated Independence Day last Wednesday with a sidewalk chalk art event and a parade around Veteran’s Memorial Park.
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Black Tree Ranch, located between Bastrop and Smithville, hosted their annual Independence Day celebration on July 5.
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As she watched the news coverage of Operation Desert Storm unfold on television in 1991, Alexandra Martinsen waited for the return of her highschool sweetheart and husband Paul, who was serving in the U.S.
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