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SHOW UP, Y’ALL Have you witnessed or been part of traffic accidents in this area of Highway 21 and FM 812? We request your attendance at this urgently important meeting! Monday, Sept. 18, 7 pm Cedar Creek High School * This meeting was called by TCEQ A permit application is on file with the TCEQ  (Texas  Commission for Environmental Quality) for a Hazardous Waste Transfer Station in much of Cedar Creek’s floodplain and is very likely to be a traffic hazard! This area of High

The City of Bastrop just filed an amended agenda item for tomorrow’s City of Bastrop, Texas (Tuesday, August 15) meeting at 6:30 pm at City Hall. THE Bastrop City Council will hold an Executive Session to deliberate on the possible reassignment, disciplinary action or dismissal of the City Attorney. Whether this has anything to do with the Ethics Ordinance changes is something that we do not know. There is also a budget workshop tomorrow night. Bastropians need to pay attenti

George Washington, father of our country If this newsletter inspires you to jump in we need volunteer writers, artists, programmers, policy wonks, researchers, fundraisers, attorneys and just good ol’ organizers…we need it all, so give us a call! Note: Independent Texans is a political action committee with our mission best expressed in the following excerpt of George Washington’s farewell address in 1797: “However [political parties] may now and then answer popular ends, the

If you live in Bastrop County, especially in or near the Cedar Creek or Del Valle communities, please consider signing this petition. It will be used to question the placement of a waste transfer station in an area that appear to us to not be the best location. Read this Fact Sheet and sign the petition below — share it with your friends in Bastrop, Caldwell and eastern Travis Counties. Fact Sheet — Cedar Creek Transfer Station We’ll let you know when area meetings will be ta

Reminder for you city of Bastrop Voters. Early voting in the historic Place 3 runoff for Bastrop City Council ended Lyle and Jennifer Nelson & Family on Tuesday. Election Day is this Saturday. Here is why we support Lyle Nelson. It’s pretty simple. Lyle is clearly committed to transparency at City Hall, a prerequisite for good government. Cedar Creek (Bastrop County) Another Dump? This message is also being sent to our pals in Caldwell County who have been fighting a dump in

If you are a Bastrop County resident who lives in Cedar Creek, Red Rock or Community Meeting Tuesday, June 28, 6:30 to 8 pm VFW Hall, Rockne 1503 FM 20 This is an informational meeting organized by Independent Texans, not the TCEQ. That public meeting will come later — likely sometime in the next two months and was requested by State Representative Cyrier and State Senator Watson. Tomorrow, we will give you the information we have gathered, our own opinions about it (and we a

A company is trying to get a permit to dump Austin’s sludge on 2,000 acres in the Cedar Creek flood plain. Send a message: Don’t Sludge Us, Austin! Update!  Make sure to attend a meeting about this being held on Tuesday, June 28th, 6:30-8 pm at the VFW, 1503 Highway 20, Rockne, Texas — especially if you live in Rockne, Red Rock or Cedar Creek. Spread the word! Did you see this in the Statesman about the plan to dump sludge in the flood plain of the Colorado River? This compan