During Monday’s meeting, the Bastrop County Commissioners Court approved continuing a burn ban placed into effect a few days prior. On Friday morning, Bastrop County Judge Paul Pape signed and released an emergency burn ban, effective starting at noon that day. Consideration of the burn ban was a topic on the agenda for Monday’s regular commissioners court meeting. Bastrop County had received rain over the weekend; however, the effect of the system coming from the Gulf of Mexico on Bastrop County was unknown at that time, Pape said. As a result, on the recommendation of the county’s fire chiefs and emergency management ...