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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.

PAIGE–TheTexasVikingFestival 2023 – Equinox will be held from11a.m.to6p.m.atValkyrie Ranch, 2008 FM 2104 in Paige. Thisisaneveningandnighttime event where you can expect music, vendors, artisans, entertainment, Nordic contests, re-enactment battles, and of course – mead.

Royalty crowned for Cedar Creek

SEPT. 11

On Sept. 8, Bastrop High School crowned Homecoming king and queen, Zane Tanton and Ashley Clark, during their football game against Westwood High School.

Some residents speak out against growth.

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.

Maintaining the consistent effort to restore and enhance Elgin’s historic downtown area, the city has implemented a pilot program to address the current problematic state of its waste disposal.

Barbara Hollingsworth announced her retirement as Community Bank President of Elgin’s Cadence Bank, ending her 38-year career in banking as a professional lending specialist.

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.

My 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.

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.