The Smithville Chamber of Commerce congratulates the winners of the 2021 Smithville mayoral, City Council and school board elections. Thank you for your willingness to serve the community.
As many of you may know, we just passed the two-year anniversary of the loss of our building to fire in 2019. The silver lining to all of this is our beautiful new building at the end of Main Street; official address: 106 NE First St. We have been so excited to watch the building take shape and we can’t wait to start moving in. We will be closing the chamber on May 19-21 to make the big move into the new building and assist with the completion of the museum. Many big “thank yous” go out to Murphy’s Vintage for their incredible work designing and installing the museum artifacts and to Dave Felker for managing the restoration of the artifacts. It has been an emotional journey and the entire chamber board and staff thanks: Jack Page, Robert Tamble, Bennie Rooks, Scott Saunders, Joanna Morgan
Join us for our final of Music in the Park outdoor concert this Thursday from 6-8 p.m. in the gazebo at the end of Main Street. The Jessica Shephard Band is the featured act.
Art and Fun in the Park: The chamber, in partnership with the city of Smithville, is planning many activities around Smithville at our various parks. Join us for geocaching, frisbee golf, hoola-hooping, live music, live theater in the park, yoga, exercise classes and more! All classes are free thanks to a grant from the St. David’s Foundation. No need to register, just come out and have a great time. All ages are welcome.
Yet another state of disaster has been declared for Bastrop County, this time after several inches of snow and several days of continuous below-freezing temperatures crippled Texas’ electric grid and water systems last week.
On Monday afternoon, February 15, County Judge Paul Pape signed an emergency declaration of disaster due to severe winter weather. Under state law, such a disaster declaration must be ratified by the commissioners’ court within seven days or be discontinued. The item was on the agenda for Monday’s regular meeting of the Bastrop County Commissioners Court.
“Little did we know at the time that it would not get better,” Pape said at this Monday’s meeting. “it would get worse before it got better, and pretty much shut the entire county down.”