LGISD Superintendent Andy McHazlett honored two LHS retirees at the LGISD End of Year Convocation on Friday, May 22. Freddie Behnke and Laurie Stork, who worked with LGISD for 28 and 34 years, each received a rocking chair as a parting gift from the district.

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Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) pushed back the start date for their US 77 repair project to June 1 due to the weather forecast. TxDOT plans to conduct repairs on the US 77 roadway through La Grange. The project involves a full-depth reconstruction of the roadway from the SH 71 Bypass to FM 155. The project is expected to take five month to complete. The portion of US 77 from the Bypass to Travis St. will be closed to through-traffic, which will be detoured via the Bypass and Business 71 on the west side of town. Local traffic will still be able to access the closed portion of the roadway.

Invenergy, North America’s largest privately held developer, owner, and operator of innovative, reliable power infrastructure, and operator of the nearby 7V Solar Ranch, continued its commitment to Fayette County this month by volunteering with American Legion Post 143 in Schulenburg ahead of Memorial Day and supporting the Flatonia Independent School District (ISD) during Teacher Appreciation Week earlier this month.

The La Grange Leopards chased 30 runs across the plate on 26 base knocks and swiped 22 bases while three hurlers doled out only five hits between them as Coach Steve Scarmardo’s lads handily won the overall District 25-AA baseball championship, 11-1 and 19-4, over Luling’s Eagles. The double bill was played on Blinn Field at Brenham because the Luling ballpark was still moist from a recent rain. Mike Pechal hurled the six-inning opener for the Leps, permitting only one lone safety, while his mates were collecting 13 off Rudy Montana and reliever Bobby Robbert. Pechal fanned 11 and walked four. Bert Vasut went four rounds for La Grange in the nightcap, kayoing six, and Kenny Hatfield hurled the last inning, striking out one. Petitions bearing the signatures of 523 people seeking stricter enforcement of the city’s dog ordinance or revision of the code with more teeth in it were presented to La Grange City Council.

Left: Kenna Oliver delivers the Valedictorian speech during Schulenburg High School’s 2026 Commencement ceremony. Right: Regan Dusek delivers the Salutatorian speech Friday.

Sacred Heart Catholic School celebrated the graduation of its sixth-grade class Friday, May 15, with a Mass and graduation ceremony. Presidential Academic Awards were presented to Sophie Janda, gold; and Ellery Bradford and Helen Streiff, silver (tie).

Big plans are being made by the new board members of the Muldoon ParkAssociation. They are working hard to reestablish the fun and friendly community celebration. The parade will be starting at 10 a.m. with everything else to follow. They are looking for some fun and interesting auction items to help raise funds to keep and maintain the park.

The Texas Quilt Museum is proud to support the Bridge 18+ Transition Program with La Grange ISD Special Education. For the past three years, Vanice Martin and her peer instructor have worked alongside museum staff each week, contributing to projects in the TQM Store, the Pearce Memorial Library, docent services, and more.

Edited here only for brevity, this is the second part of an article written by Leonie Rummel Weyand and printed in the October 19, 1933 issue of the La Grange Journal. George Huebner continued, from his story in Part 1: “Fayette County teamsters hauled to Mexico not only the cotton raised in Fayette County, but also cotton that was raised in East Texas and in Louisiana.