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Elgin residents have been given more opportunities to pick up their paddles, with the city’s recreation center adding additional days and courts for its pickleball players.
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TAYLOR — A 70s era made-for-tv vampire production not only led Thomas Edwards to a decades- long career in journalism, but also to the fulfillment of his life-long mission to see his own horror novel published.
Read moreSome residents speak out against growth.
Read moreMy mama always told me, “Elgin is a small town, there’s nothing you can do that I can’t find out about.” She proved her point when I was in junior high.
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The country music singer Tim McGraw had a chart-topping song in 2004 called, “Live like You Were Dying”. The song is about a man who receives a diagnosis of a life-ending illness and his response to it. In the song, the man’s life-threatening illness leads to profound moral changes in him. Some elements of the man’s change are undoubtedly good and worthy of imitation: he begins speaking more kindly to others; loving more generously; being a better husband; reading the Bible; forgiving where previously he had withheld forgiveness. Other elements are rather trivial and even risky, perhaps even tempting God: skydiving, mountain climbing, bull riding. This has the air of “well I’m going to die soon anyway, so I might as well live dangerously.” In contrast with the better elements, this leaves the listener with a rather worldy message of carpe diem, “YOLO,” do what makes you happy.
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BASTROP – Lost Pines Toyota has stepped up to support Bastrop Pregnancy Resource in its mission to provide a safer start for mothers and their precious newborns.
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On Sept. 8, Bastrop High School crowned Homecoming king and queen, Zane Tanton and Ashley Clark, during their football game against Westwood High School.
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