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The Elgin Chamber of Commerce family continues to grow, adding a new septic and dirt specialist that has already put in significant work around the city.
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Bastrop resident Peggy Dimmick was sworn in for her second term as a member of the Texas Silver- Haired Legislature by Texas House Representative Gary VanDeaver earlier this month.
Read moreThe Elgin Courier will be closed Monday, Sept. 4, in observance of Labor Day. Due to the holiday, deadlines will be earlier for content for the newspaper.
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Elgin’s youth-organized programs backed by library
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Elgin’s Parks and Recreation department continues to supply locals with their own particular brand of summer heat relief, bringing back their cardboard boat race for the third consecutive year.
Read moreIt’s 1952 and we were in the second year of Official Little League Baseball in Elgin, which fielded two teams. I was 12 years old and played for the Kiwanis Blue team coached by Mr. Otto Haverland and Mr. Ray Coffman.
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In Luke 18:9-14, Jesus tells us that the Pharisee went to the Temple to pray. However, the Pharisee didn’t really go up to pray, but to be seen and heard, to compare himself to others, and to boast. The Pharisee stood by himself in a very noticeable way, set apart from everyone else so that people would look at him and be impressed. Then the Pharisee prayed, if you can call it a prayer: “God, I thank you that I am not like other men, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even like this tax collector. I fast twice a week; I give tithes of all that I get.”
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