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Southern Gothic author Ariel Slick invites readers to experience blues music as the antidote to hatred and love as the challenge to control her new novel “The Devil Take the Blues,”,Thursday, April 23, at The Story Peddler bookstore.

Bellville and Austin County are less than 30 days away from the Rock the Country festival that will take place at the county fairgrounds May 1-2. According to Larry Kuciemba, executive director with the Bellville Economic Development Corporation, the event is projected to have an economic impact of more than $16 million in the county.

With use of the flock license plate recognition system, authorities were able to locate a man wanted after fleeing a deadly accident in Austin County March 31. Gerardo Mauricio Guzman Sagastume, 26, of Springfield, Virginia, was arrested and charged with failure to stop and render aid-death According to Department of Public Safety Sergeant Stephen Woodard, troopers were dispatched to a fatal accident on State Highway 36 near Frazer Road in Austin County.