http://bastropadvertiser.com Just another ACN Websites weblog Sat, 04 Feb 2012 17:21:16 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en ROUND ROCK - The UIL pulled back the curtain Thursday to unveil its biennial redistricting and it wasn’t a shock to most of the areas schools. Bastrop, Cedar Creek and Elgin joined Georgetown – which dropped from Class 5A –former District 16-4A opponents Hutto, Connally and Manor and new school Georgetown ... http://bastropadvertiser.com/2012/02/02/realignment-just-as-predicted/ A Bastrop High School teacher has been charged with an “improper relationship between an educator and a student,” a second-degree felony, police chief Michael Blake said. Blake said Jonathan Frelich, 31, turned himself into the Bastrop County Jail Thursday. Frelich, who was also an assistant softball coach, posted a bond of ... http://bastropadvertiser.com/2012/02/02/teacher-charged-with-felony/ By Jo Watts February’s First Friday at Art Connections Gallery will showcase “2 Sisters,” with sisters-in-law Kathy Callaway and Julia Callaway. Kathy, from Fayetteville, is a sculptor who will show pieces in bronze and cold-cast bronze.  Particularly loved in her works are the “little people,” small figurative portraits of children that ... http://bastropadvertiser.com/2012/02/01/sisters%e2%80%99-sculpture-mosaics-to-be-showcased/ By Vicki Lynn James It seems that Cedar Creek has definitely become a target for adversity. First the Union Chapel fires, then the rains that came on Jan. 25 trapped a lot of people in their homes and kept others from getting there. Major roads that lead out from the outlying ... http://bastropadvertiser.com/2012/02/01/from-burning-to-flooding-all-about-cedar-creek/ The annual dinner theater at Playhouse Smithville comes with a strut:  “Chrome Cruisin’ ‘50’s” is all about a time when everything had fenders, fins and skirts –  the cars, the girls, the guys, the TV’s, the drive-ins, the politics, the poetry and the music. This promises to be a live ... http://bastropadvertiser.com/2012/02/01/playhouse-smithville-cruisin-to-the-50s/ It’s not quite spring yet, but the calendar is getting busy in February. Ready for some superb entrees that will change the way you think about soup? The 8th annual Empty Bowl Project, a fundraiser for the Bastrop County Emergency Food Pantry – will be held Saturday, Feb. 25 from 11 a.m. ... http://bastropadvertiser.com/2012/02/01/empty-bowl-project-gearing-up/ Improving city sewer lines and the status of the Farm Street Project and a “splash pad” at Fisherman’s Park were part of city manager Mike Talbot’s updates to the city council during their regular meeting last Tuesday. Since work crews will already be digging ground for a splash pad in the ... http://bastropadvertiser.com/2012/02/01/sewer-streets-top-city-projects/ By Debbie Moore The City of Bastrop will be giving away free five gallon trees to City of Bastrop residents and those in the county who have been affected by the wildfire on Saturday, Feb. 11 beginning at 9 a.m. at the City of Bastrop Public Works Facility parking lot, 1209 ... http://bastropadvertiser.com/2012/02/01/moore-about-bastrop-2/ Charles Francis Weaver of Bastrop died Jan. 28, 2012. Charles was born May 25, 1920 in Houston to Charles Messenger Weaver and Josephine Flowers Weaver. He is survived by this wife, Betty Weaver, five children, nine grandchildren, two great-grandchildren and one sister. Rosary and visitation are Friday, Feb. 3 at 7 p.m. at ... http://bastropadvertiser.com/2012/02/01/charles-francis-weaver/ Wesley Wamer calls the first weeks on his new job his “baptism by fire.” Wamer was hired by the Family Crisis Center as the new manager of their Bits and Pieces Thrift Store at the tail end of August, which, as you might imagine, means he was pretty busy right from ... http://bastropadvertiser.com/2012/02/01/bits-and-pieces-holding-open-house-feb-9/