latest
Marrs-Jones Funeral Home and Marrs-Jones-Newby Funeral Home were proud to be able to deliver their local first responders a premade lunch in honor of September 11, 2001.
Read moreAdvocacy Outreach has provided electric heaters to clients who are in need for several years, and we have opened the program again this year. Often, there is not enough funding to carry the program through the season.
Read moreThe Elgin Juneteenth Organization will sponsor Shop with a Cop. Gift cards will be given to selected children in lieu of actually shopping with a cop due to COVID-19.
Read moreBand director Armando Martinez and assistant band directors Christopher Montemayor and Alyson Keller had a special surprise for their band members after practice on Thursday evening, October 29th: a brand new band rig!
Read moreElgin Arts Association (EAA) has been utilizing virtual and social media avenues since the closing of public events this year for the health and safety of the community, artists, and patrons.
Read moreTo celebrate Halloween, the McDade Historical Society hosted a “trunk-or-treat” in downtown McDade on Saturday evening. Community members brought their vehicles, decorated for Halloween, to Old Highway 20 between Waco Street and Bastrop Street, to hand out candy for costumed trick-or-treaters. Food and beverages were sold to support the McDade Historical Society.
Read moreOn Friday night, Elginites gathered in the alley between G&M Drygoods and Independence Title for food, drinks, music and shopping during the Hunter’s Moon Luna Market, hosted by local maker group She Creates Union. That evening, local artists sold their products, and attendees enjoyed food and beverages from local businesses. She Creates Union plans to host their next Luna Market in downtown Elgin on Friday, December 4.
Read moreBastropians strolled through downtown Bastrop searching for paintings of birds on downtown businesses’ storefronts for the Bastrop Bird Walk on Saturday, October 17. Participants searched for 22 such paintings of local birds in order to complete a checklist. The bird walk celebrates Bastrop’s Bird City designation, which was officially earned earlier this year and recognizes the ways that Bastrop is bird-friendly.
Read more