Home | The Fayette County Record

Shelter Has 27 Adoptions Last Week

As of Sept. 15, total intake for the Gardenia E. Janssen Animal Shelter is 1,251: 596 dogs and 655 cats in need. As of Sept. 15, the shelter has 141 animals in care: 62 dogs/79 cats. This number includes animals in the facility, in foster care for medical, waiting on available space, or awaiting transport to rescue partner.

Premium Content is available to subscribers only. Please login here to access content or go here to purchase a subscription. Alternatively, you can click on the red box displaying the $0.99 sign on the right-hand side here to purchase a single issue and access this story. Enter your email address and proceed to make the payment.

Fayette Co. Fire Calls

The Fayette County Firefighter’s Association reports the following calls for the week of Sept. 10-16: Fire Alarms - 2 Medical - 9 Illegal Burning - 2 Mutual Aid (Grass Fire) - 1 Grass Fires – 2 Electrical Fires - 4 Accidents - 3 Gas Leak/Odor - 2 Lightning Strike - 1

Almost Half of All Car Safety Seats Aren’t Installed Correctly

Car seats work. Just ask Mandy Watson who was in a head-on crash with her 11-month-old and 5- year-old as they were going to lunch more than a decade ago.

Taekwondo Classes Offered at Round Top Family Library

OP News Junior Master Gardeners for fourth through sixth grades, art class for grades second through twelfth grades, jazz dance for grades kindergarten through sixth grades, chess club for ages 7 and up, and Taekwondo for ages 7 and up are all free classes offered during the week. Contact the library for more information and to register.

Flooding Leading Cause of Natural Disaster

Flooding remains the leading cause of natural-disaster loss across the United States. The Hill Country and Central Texas have a greater risk of flash flooding than most regions of the United States. This area is called Flash FloodAlley because of the area’s steep terrain, shallow soil and unusually high rainfall rates. Heavy rains can quickly transform into walls of fast-moving water with great…

CVICA Prepare Burgers for Livestock Show

Road Closure In Muldoon

The Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) began work to replace a bridge on Parkerville Rd. between Cherry Rd. and FM 2237 in the Muldoon area Tuesday, Sept. 19. The work is expected to completed by Jan. 15, 2024. TxDOT will have detour and road closed signs to remind residents and visitors.

Fayette County Retired Teachers Meet

The Fayette County Retired Teachers’ Association met on Monday, Sept. 11, at the Fellowship Hall of the New Life Methodist Church (formerly First United Methodist Church) in La Grange, with 31 in attendance. Fellowship Time was a “Welcome Back!” social with Blue Bell ice cream.

Time to Plant Trees Here, But Citrus is Tricky

Fall is the best time of year to plant trees and shrubs. Cooler weather places less stress on trees, allowing them to grow a deep root system during the winter.

LG Students Make All-Region Jazz Band

Sheriff’s Office to Hold Seized Gun Auction

The Fayette County Sheriff’s Office needs to clear out all the forfeited firearms in their gun cabinet, and local gun dealers will have the chance to buy them at auction on Thursday, Sept. 28.

Caboose Gets New Lease on Life

Solid cypress boards and fresh yellow paint are giving a bright new face to a caboose at the La Grange MKT Depot Museum. “Thanks to a grant from Second Chance Emporium, we will be able to tell this caboose’s story for years to come,” said Gale Lincke, a longtime director of the nonprofit museum.

LHS Class of 1963 Holds 60th Reunion

Twenty-nine members of the Class of 1963 of La Grange High School celebrated the 60th anniversary of their graduation at the Sealand Seafood & Steaks restaurant in La Grange this past Saturday, Sept. 16.

New Business ‘Cardinals’ Ground’ in Town; Emerson Parry Wins at County Fair

F Fayetteville residents will soon reap the benefits of a business venture being established from the ground up. Rice and Paula Lummis were married last November in their beautiful family home on Rusk St.

Test Day

That Little Voice Love everything that comes to me? Is it necessary to love all the calamities or misfortunes that come to me? Really? Do I have to embrace chasing that massive cockroach across the room in order to eliminate it permanently from my house? I suppose I can love that it makes me get up from my comfortable chair and dash around the room. Exercise is good for me.