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Officials discuss regional economic development partners corporation

The city of Bastrop is exploring what a regional economic development partners corporation could look like after Bastrop County Precinct 4 Commissioner David Glass proposed the idea.

The details: Glass discussed his push for a regional economic development partners corporation—an organization he believes could help attract new companies and industries to the area and support long-term growth—during a Feb. 12 meeting he sponsored.

Zooming in: The Bastrop County-led initiative would bring together officials from cities throughout the county; however, Bastrop City Manager Sylvia Carrillo-Trevino said Bastrop County “lacks a clear vision of economic development” in response to the absence of a strategic plan.

“The fact that [an operating budget] amount was identified, without a plan, gave great concern to all of the cities,” Carrillo-Trevino said.

What's next? Council directed Carrillo-Trevino to work with officials from other Bastrop County cities, including Elgin, Paige, Rosanky, Smithville and Webberville, to develop a strategic plan of their own.

 
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Happy Health & Wellness brings primary care, wellness services to Bastrop

Happy Health & Wellness opened its first Bastrop spot—bringing integrative and functional wellness and other health-related options to the area.

In a nutshell: The clinic provides services such as:

  • Allergy treatments
  • Elite physicals
  • Ozone therapy
  • Peptide therapy
  • PlaqueX
  • Primary care
  • IV therapy
  • Weight-loss support
  • Hormone replacement

What else? Mireya Adame, board-certified family nurse practitioner, is leading the Bastrop clinic location.
  • Opened March 13
  • Trinidad Business Park, 815 Hwy. 71 W., Ste. 1130, Bastrop
 

YOUR WEEKEND TO-DO LIST

Check out these weekend events across the metro area.

Kaleidospoke

Round Rock Express Fan Fest

March 20, 7-9:30 p.m.
Cedar Park

March 21, 10 a.m.-2 p.m.
Round Rock

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Main Street Spring Market

Spring Plant & Tree Sale

March 21, 10 a.m.-5 p.m.; March 22, 11 a.m.-4 p.m.
Bastrop

March 22, 10 a.m.-2 p.m.
Buda

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More info

 
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Texas families now have until March 31 to apply for education savings accounts, judge rules

Texas families now have an additional two weeks to apply for the state’s new education savings account program, a Houston federal judge ruled March 17.

What's happening: U.S. District Judge Alfred Bennett ordered the state comptroller’s office to extend the application deadline to March 31 over concerns that no Islamic private schools had been greenlit to accept state ESA funds. In two lawsuits filed in early March, four Muslim parents said they felt deterred from applying for education savings accounts because the Islamic schools they send their children to were not among the 2,200 schools authorized to participate in the program.

Parents previously had until 11:59 p.m. March 17 to apply for the program.

Latest update: In a March 17 news release, the comptroller’s office confirmed that applications would be accepted through March 31 in compliance with the judge’s order.

Over 229,000 students had applied for the $1 billion program as of March 17, Acting Comptroller Kelly Hancock said. The state will use a need- and income-based lottery system to determine who is accepted.

 

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