Preparing for their upcoming season, the Bastrop High School football team has practiced for the hotter half of the summer to face their first opponent of the season, the Rangers of Bryan-Rudder High School. With the Bears’ summer spent working out, playing football and building as a team, many...

Ending the school year placing ninth in the top ten of the class of 2021, senior Mayra Robles worked hard and was determined to place among the top of her class. “I would stay up until 2 in the morning sometimes, and wake up at 4, just to get all my work done and study for my classes,” said Robles....

"She always held me to high standards and expected the most from me," said Taylor.

“Thank you for teaching me the skill of perseverance and being so supportive of all of my decisions, it really means the world to me,” said Risinger.

Senior Bradley Palacios will graduate from Bastrop High School as number three in the class of 2021. Testing his knowledge of biology, physics, and chemistry, Palacios competed as a member of the UIL Science team in his junior and senior years. Palacios’s favorite class, AP Calculus, taught him deeper...