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Brian Burton needed a coat, a tie and a white shirt. There was a wedding on the horizon and his normal attire (shorts, fishing shirt, etc.) wasn’t going to do.

By ANDY BEHLEN The Fayette County Record A reader wrote to me this week about their okra plants. “My okra has gotten so tall that it is now top-heavy, bending and falling over,” he said.

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Former USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) employee Glen Minzenmeyer was recently selected as the recipient of the 2022 Hugh Hammond Bennett Regional Conservation Planner of the Year Award by the National Association of Conservation District’s National Conservation Planning Partnership. Minzenmeyer worked for more than 37 years as a civil engineering technician in the La Grange, Texas, office before retiring in July 2022.

Is it time to talk drought again? A few lucky folks have had some rain, but most have not and pastures are showing it. With temperatures over 100 degrees and constant wind, our part of Texas feels like a convection oven. Grass seems to turn brown overnight.

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Fifty years ago this summer, Houston’s KTRK Channel 13 sent an undercover news crew to infiltrate La Grange’s Chicken Ranch. The flamboyant newsman Marvin Zinder later presented the story on television and forever cemented his legacy to The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas.

Carlos Liriano, owner of Lost Pines Toyota in Bastrop, committed $5,000 to assist in expanding breast cancer screenings and diagnostics for women under the age of 40 in Central Texas, and Toyota will match the donation with an additional $5,000. On Friday, July 28, Lost Pines Toyota will host the Bastrop County Cares Breast Health Initiative from 11:30 a.m.