Elgin NAACP Branch #6174 hosted a celebration of Juneteenth on Sunday evening, June 19 with a program at Thomas Memorial Park. This year’s Juneteenth program was a special one: not only is 2022 Elgin’s 150th anniversary, but the 50th anniversary of Thomas Memorial Park.
Western Days serves as Elgin’s annual homecoming celebration and is always held during the last week in June. Throughout the multiple-day affair, events are held including a parade, carnival, live music, vendor marketplace, and sports tournaments.
The McDade Watermelon Festival will be having their 73rd Annual Queens’ Revue on Saturday, June 25 at 7 p.m. on the festival grounds.
Bastropians celebrated Juneteenth last weekend with a variety of events celebrating the history of Bastrop and the holiday.
Bastrop car enthusiasts braved the heat on Saturday for the Blue Flame Cruisers’ 13th annual Car & Motorcycle Show. The parking lot of the Bastrop Convention Center was full of cars and motorcycles of all styles, ages and types for the public to view and enjoy.
After missing the past two years due to the pandemic, Elgin’s annual Juneteenth Festival was back downtown this past weekend, bringing festivities, fellowship and family fun to Veterans Memorial Park.
The Elgin City Council approved an agreement regarding a 772-home residential development next to Neidig Elementary School during their meeting on June 7.
Bil and Mary Jane Kahanek are the Parade Marshals for this year's McDade Watermelon Festival.
A recent filing with the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality shows that rocket company SpaceX seems to have plans in Bastrop County.
The Elgin City Council approved an agreement regarding a 772-home residential development next to Neidig Elementary School during their meeting on June 7.
Bastrop County is under a burn ban as of Monday afternoon that is planned to last through the beginning of August.
A new bench commemorating a piece of Elgin history was unveiled on Main Street on Wednesday, May 18.
The bench is dedicated to the Brickyard Boys, a group of Elgin High School students who overcame all odds to form a golf team and make it all the way to state in 1959 and 1960.
Elgin High School head baseball coach Edward Stringer was hired to fill the same position at Hutto High School last Wednesday, the coach reported to the Courier.
To this point, he has spent his entire teaching and coaching career in Elgin.
On the afternoon of May 4, Bastrop High School hosted a signing day ceremony for six Bear and Lady Bear student-athletes who will be taking their careers to the collegiate level this fall.
The Elgin High School football program got its 2022 campaign underway last Friday evening with an intrasquad spring game at Wildcat Stadium, as fans were afforded a first look at the team.
Coming off a difficult 2021 season, there is new energy for the Wildcats, who last year were limited in their offseason workouts because of COVID restrictions.
Students of local history know how Bastrop County values and depends on its wealth of trees. Over-harvesting in its early days and recent wildfires are painful reminders of human encroachment on this treasured resource. Unfortunately, our school system leaders haven’t taken this lesson to heart.
In one of the hottest contests for Texas House, a longtime champion for independent politics, Linda Curtis, is entering the race for Texas House District 17 (Bastrop, Burleson, Caldwell, Lee, and Milam counties). From 1996 to 2000, Curtis was the Texas organizer for the Reform Party, founded by Ross Perot. After the demise of the Reform Party, Linda co-founded Independent Texans PAC.
Friends of the Land, a Bastrop County farmland preservation coalition, and Bastrop Interfaith are calling on Elgin ISD to reject a Chapter 313 10-year tax abatement for an industrial solar farm on heavily-wooded land near historic Sayersville.
The slow police response at Uvalde, Texas highlights just how unrealistic is to rely on the police for protection. The sad truth is the police rarely if ever intervene in time to stop a crime in progress.
Alberto Cano Tovar, 38, of Elgin, passed away suddenly early Monday morning, June 13, 2022. Services are private. Arrangements and care entrusted to Elgin Funeral Home.
Barbara Jean Kylberg Fredrickson, 89, of Elgin, was called Home, to be with her Lord and Savior, Tuesday, May 17, 2022. She was born in Elgin, Texas, to Ernest Oscar Kylberg and Ida Mae Klaus Kylberg.
Bettie Louise Franklin, 92, of Bastrop, died Thursday, May 19th.
Ivan P. Smith, age 75, of Lago Vista, Texas, passed away on June 9, 2022.
A Visitation will be held on Saturday, June 18, 2022, at Elgin New Life Baptist Fellowship. A Celebration of Life will follow at 11:00 AM.
Arrangements entrusted to Providence-Jones Family Funeral Home.
