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Issue Relates to Schulenburg’s $8 Million bond to Renovate City Hall The effort in Schulenburg to force an election on the City’s $8 million bond to renovate City Hall took another step forward last week. Chad Zimmermann, the Schulenburg property owner who organized the effort, said he filed a petition with the City last Friday.
Greater Vision Team School is a Christian homeschool co-op that offers science, history, geography, writing, P.E. and electives to children ages newborn to 8th grade, and science, writing and personal finance for highschool age. The co-op meets every Tuesday at Camp Lutherhill in La Grange for 12 weeks each Fall and Spring semester. Families can join for the academic classes in the morning, the elective classes in the afternoon, or both. The fall welcome meeting will be held on Tuesday, Aug. 4 in the meeting room of the Fayette Public Library, from 5:307:30 p.m. Check them out on Facebook or call Brianne Bernsen at (979) 966-9672 for more information.
The Schulenburg City Council were scheduled to meet in executive session Monday night, Aug. 3, to consider a participation agreement between the Schulenburg Police Department and the federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency through the 287(g) program.
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This Monday marked the first day high school football team could hold full-squad workouts, and La Grange wasted no time, with varsity and JV beginning at 6 a.m. Monday. Schulenburg and Flatonia join the Leps in navigating exciting new districts this season. Scrimmages will begin as early as next week, with season openers Aug. 28.
The Serbin Jackrabbits defeated the Flatonia Wildcats 15-0 in five innings, to claim the 2026 Community League Baseball Championship, on Sunday at Voelker-Koether Field in La Grange. Serbin reached the final game with a convincing win over Weimar in the semi-final round, while Flatonia edged out New Ulm last week, 4-3 to reach their first CLB championship game since joining the league four years ago.
The Texas Sports Writers Association has named its All State Baseball Teams. Several Fayette County kids made the cut.
The Smallest Aquatic League of Texas (SALT) and Wake Aquatics are proud to announce that 21 swimmers have earned the opportunity to represent Texas at the 2026 State Games of America in State College, Pennsylvania, home of Penn State University. The biennial event will bring together approximately 12,500 athletes from all 50 states to compete in one of the nation’s premier amateur sporting events.
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This is an exciting week for Senior Connections because we will start our satellite in La Grange on Wednesday, Aug. 5.
Tejas Healthcare of La Grange held a Back-to-School Festival in La Grange on Saturday, August. 2. The local non-profit healthcare provider gave away 600 backpacks and school supplies to local students. The event included informational booths from school organizations and social service providers in the area. Families and kids also got to enjoy a bounce house, petting zoo, and hot dogs from Feed the Need Ministries.
