Bastrop News

The Memorial Day, pause to reflect on the huge sacrifice that the small town of Smithville Texas, which is southeast of Bastrop, has made in the War on Terror.

Starting in August 2010 and ending last year, Amarillo Independent School District Superintendent Rod Schroder traveled an average of once every six school days - 26 times to Austin, twice to Dallas, once to Houston and once to Bastrop, among other trips.

Judy Thurston, 58, stands in front of what remains of her two-story Bastrop home.

Shoppers meander among the aisles overflowing with snacks at the 67,000-square-foot New Braunfels Buc-ee's. A 20th Texas location is scheduled to open this fall on Texas 71 in Bastrop.

I've concluded that there are two kinds of people in our world: Those willing to believe there are only two kinds of people, and those who think it's a bit more complex than that.

Kim Jones was hit in the stomach and leg by stray bullets while she was changing her baby's diaper.

While other cities might boast of their historic sites or cultural offerings, the good folks of this easy-going, free-spirited community have chosen to highlight a flock of feral chickens that has lived for years on Farm Street.

Some people complain that their town has gone to the dogs, but Bastrop , Texas, has gone to the chickens and Bastropians are proud of it.

One year after what is considered to be one of the largest animal hoarding cases in Central Texas, the dogs were reunited Tuesday.

One year ago today, the Austin Humane Society rescued 147 dogs from a Bastrop home in what Humane Society officials called one of the worst cases of animal hoarding in Central Texas.

One year ago this week, one of the worst cases of animal hoarding in Central Texas was discovered.

Community Briefing: Austin school board to discuss tax rate increase tonight; Bastrop school district sets budget for next school year Community Briefing: Austin school board to discuss tax rate increase tonight; Bastrop school district sets budget for next school year The Center for Public Policy and Political Studies at Austin Community College ... (more)

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The TGI Friday's chain has signed a deal to use a bill-paying app for customers from Austin-based Tabbedout in its restaurants nationwide.

All lanes of Texas 71 in Bastrop, at Old Austin Highway are blocked after a wreck involving an 18-wheeler. The 18-wheeler appears to be flipped over in a photo posted by the Bastrop County Office of Emergency Management on its Facebook page.

Hinojosa said raising rates while the Coastal Bend is without all four allotted representatives on the windstorm insurance board is taxation without representation.

The Health Resources and Services Administration, an agency of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, awarded LSCC the one-time grant to build a 25,000-square-foot clinic in Bastrop.

The report finds more users are logging into facebook through AUSTIN -- As one of only 11 recipients nationwide, Texas Parks and Wildlife Department's Historic Sites branch was recently awarded a $25,000 grant from the National Park Service to study the effects of the Bastrop fire on Bastrop State Park's historic structures built by the Civilian ... (more)

Candidates for some offices in the upcoming Democratic and Republican primaries will discuss immigration issues and law enforcement in a forum tonight.

Central Texas native Richard Overton turned 106-years-old Friday, but the spring in his step and the flash of his wit reveal a much younger inner age.