I think Spring is here. I’m getting the garden ready to plant some warm season crops.

For the second year in a row, the Texas Education Agency cut off state funds to the La Grange Independent School District due to an accountant’s failure to report an audit of the books on time. Superintendent C.A. Lemmons, who confirmed TEA’s action in January to The Record, said the funding issue was temporary and the school district had adequate cash reserves to tide it over. Although the audit report was due on Dec. 1, the Brenham-based auditor had not yet completed his assessment as of press time.

To the Editor: As Fayette County residents, Texans, and Americans, we value our freedoms – our freedom to elect leaders who govern in our name. Multiple grand juries of Americans have indicted the former MAGA President for his criminal conspiracy to defraud, deny, and overthrow the will of the people.

To the Editor: Romberg closes his letter in Feb16 FCR accurately. “Nikki Haley ensures the survival of our current system of government.” Precisely summing up why so many Americans support Donald Trump is his aggressive commitment to shake up the corrupt status quo continuously foisted on citizens by both parties for so many decades.

To the Editor: I read in these pages – articles, cartoons, and letters -- that the local progressive left has worked itself into a lather over the subject of “book banning.” If “book banning” were an accurate definition of the process of vetting school library materials – particularly for the youngest of our charges -- I would join them in protest! But adults watching out for the mentally and emotionally healthy upbringing of our precious children in our public schools is neither “book banning” nor “infringing on their first amendment rights”. We adults don’t allow our kiddos to carry loaded handguns in their school backpacks, either, and that is neither “gun grabbing” nor “infringing on our children’s second amendment rights”.

To the Editor: My personal compliments and support for the Record providing space for the lengthy comparison of Conservative verses Liberal political views featured in the February 9th issue. Newspapers in large cities would have shortened the editorial or have refused to print.

My body is sending messages of its desire to quit working in the way it has in the past. And that is frustrating, scary, puzzling, and disconcerting.

Janessa and I planted potatoes on Sunday in a new patch we expanded to our garden. I think potatoes are a great crop to start in a new section of garden.

What do we think about age? Do we reveal how old we are? Do we pretend to an earlier birthdate? Social media has made that kind of pretense harder to sustain when you’re sharing photos of anniversary dinners and birthday cakes. Why bother? Ageism is why some do.