The effort to find a new home for the Confederate monuments at the Bastrop County courthouse continues, but has come up against a couple of obstacles. Two monuments with ties to the Confederacy—an obelisk monument dedicated to the Confederate soldiers of Bastrop County and a memorial to Major Joseph Sayers—currently sit on the lawn of the Bastrop County courthouse. After a protest at the courthouse, citizens’ comments during meetings and a three-hour public hearing this summer, the Bastrop County Commissioners Court voted 4-0, with one abstention, to remove the monuments from the courthouse lawn and to appoint a committee to oversee ...