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Boom to Bastrop music scene

Boom to Bastrop music scene

BASTROP – Bastrop Live Music Foundation kicked off its Harmony Ridge Concert Series this past Thursday with a loud fundraising affair, highlighting performances from members of its own board of directors. 08/23/2023 12:00 AM

Community Calendar August

Community Calendar August

ELGIN – The Cardboard Boat Race Speed Build Competition will be held from 10 a.m. to noon at Morris Memorial Pool, 802 N. Ave C. Boats must be made entirely out of cardboard and duct tape and should fit one rower. The first boat to make it to the opposite side of the pool wins. Boats may be no longer than eight feet and no wider than four feet. Joints and seams may only be taped. Boats must have sides that are a minimum of five inches tall. No rafts permitted. For more information, call Elizabeth Marzec at 512-285-6434 or email [email protected]. 08/23/2023 12:00 AM

BASTROP COUNTY JAIL LOG

BASTROP COUNTY JAIL LOG

It is important to note that an arrest should not be considered as evidence of guilt. The defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. 08/23/2023 12:00 AM

Christ Shows Us God’s Will

Christ Shows Us God’s Will

The Lord’s good and gracious will is revealed above all in Jesus’ Passion, when a weak and trembling Jesus prayed to His Father and then was betrayed into the hands of sinful men to die. We find Jesus in dark Gethsemane sorrowful and troubled, even to the point of His sacred heart failing right then and there. The weight of the world’s sins pressed down mightily upon Him; He fell upon His face in weakness and trembling, begging, “My Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me.” The cup Jesus spoke of was the cup of His Father’s wrath against all the sin of the world. God’s wrath is His unmitigated anger, a furious outpouring of condemnation, the fires and torments of hell. 08/23/2023 12:00 AM

Elgin’s “Black Icons Mural” takes a tour

Elgin’s “Black Icons Mural” takes a tour

Relatives of the community leaders depicted in Main Street’s “Black Icons Mural” filled Capital Metro bus seats to ride alongside their family members once more. 08/23/2023 12:00 AM

Council passes landmark 570-acre consent development agreement

Council passes landmark 570-acre consent development agreement

08/23/2023 12:00 AM

Elgin initially appealed to Rodnianski for its personality, she said. Photo by Niko Demetriou

Lights, camera, extras

08/23/2023 12:00 AM

Wildfire sparks nearby previous blaze

Wildfire sparks nearby previous blaze

SMITHVILLE – A short two weeks after the Powder Keg Pine Fire scorched 117 acres of land west of Smithville, the Amaze Fire lit and burned another 63 acres to the east of the city. 08/23/2023 12:00 AM

Remembering Mrs. Henderson

Remembering Mrs. Henderson

Collected 08/23/2023 12:00 AM

Jesus Gives Us His Kingdom

Jesus Gives Us His Kingdom

To have a kingdom, you must have a king. In the Old Testament, the Lord gave lofty promises about a future King coming who would be like King David, only better. When Jesus came, He didn’t seem to fit the bill. The wise men could content themselves with Jesus as King, but not Israel. That little baby didn’t really seem like much of a king, even less after He grew up. Jesus said, “Foxes have holes, and birds of the air have nests, but the Son of Man has nowhere to lay his head” (Matthew 8:20). Nothing regal about that. 08/15/2023 11:00 PM

Memories of Miss Nell

Memories of Miss Nell

In the 1930s there was an organization of young girls in Elgin called Rainbow Girls. They were part of Eastern Star, which was composed of adult women. My mother, Mattie Belle Upchurch Smith, was a Rainbow Girl along with her friends Betty Wilson Dildy and Joy Cole Fromme. 08/15/2023 11:00 PM

Elginites perform for thousands of future Texas farmers

Elginites perform for thousands of future Texas farmers

This summer’s State FFA Agricultural Education Convention brought two of Elgin High Shool’s own future farmers center stage, collecting accolades Elgin has never received before. 08/15/2023 11:00 PM

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