Bastrop County officials have released an order with guidelines and restrictions for the safe reopening this fall of schools within the county. Last Tuesday, Dr. Desmar Walkes, the local health authority for Bastrop County, and Paul Pape, the county judge and director of emergency management, released an order outlining controls and restrictions for in-person school campus instruction for all independent school districts operating in Bastrop County. The order requires school systems to implement in-person instruction in four stages; moving to the next stage would be based on data from the Texas Department of State Health Services (DSHS) that shows a decrease in ...