News with Integrity, Because Facts Matter. Serving Bastrop, Smithville, Elgin, McDade, and More.
GRUESOME FREAK ACCIDENT IN ELGIN By Carolyn Banks The Bastrop County Sheriff’s Office dispatcher received a call at approximately 1 am Wednesday morning from a Red Rock man who had brought three friends visiting from Florida to go hog hunting. The man said that a...
GRUESOME DISCOVERY By Carolyn Banks The bodies of one woman, two men and a dog were found dead in a cistern located in a cornfield North of Elgin. According to Sheriff Maurice Cook, recovery efforts wrapped up at about 8:30 pm Wednesday (tonight). There was water in...
The Weather A personal essay By Carolyn Banks The thermometer outside my bedroom says 110 degrees. Going outside is ill-advised. In fact, when you go out in the daytime, it’s like a science fiction movie: no cars moving, no people on the streets. I soon discovered...
The Beginning of the End? A personal essay By Carolyn Banks The other day I had a tree-trimmer, Jared, come to give me an estimate. A lot of branches had grown so much they were scraping the roof. One of the branches was pulling the screen on the gutters up. So okay,...
Bastrop County Approved for Disaster Relief President Joe Biden approved 13 counties for disaster relief and Bastrop County was one of these. The storm, which paralyzed Texas for several days in early February, brought power outages, burst pipes and downed trees and...
Aftermath of Elgin Shooting by Carolyn Banks, Bastrop Payton Washington, the 19-year-old cheerleader shot in Elgin after midnight April 18, has a long recovery ahead of her. Shot in the back and the leg, she had to have a portion of her spleen removed and also...