Across the United States, groups are attempting to get a firm count of the number of homeless people living in their midst. In Travis County this past weekend, the count was led by a group called Ending Community Homelessness or ECHO. For the first time in the history of the count, volunteers reached the Travis County limits in order to get more accurate numbers. "Every year we try to make changes that will help us to get a more accurate picture of who's out there. We've been working towards that and, this year, we had enough volunteers to send to the furthest areas of the county," Tera Bock, coordinator of the Travis County Homeless Count, says. The data determines the level of federal funding the area will receive and also helps...
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A popular campground in Bastrop that was devastated by the Labor Day wildfires in 2011 will be reforested with the help of Boy Scouts. Almost half of the 5,000-acre Griffith Leag…...
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