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What I Seek in the Year Ahead

5 months ago By Margo Johnson

Little Voice It seems a bit silly to announce the new year. Who doesn’t know that we toss the 2025 calendar into yesterday’s trash and flip open the 2026 datebook to begin another 365 days of not knowing.

Clean Up the Ash Pile

5 months ago By News Staff

To the editor: Here are some reasons FPP should begin finding ways to clean up their ash piles and arguments against increasing ash pile runoff at the Lower Colorado River Authority’s (LCRA) Fayette Power Project (FPP) center on public health risks, ecological damage, and legal compliance concerns. 1.

Participate in Democracy

5 months ago By News Staff

To the editor: As America celebrates its 250th birthday, it is most fitting that 2026 is also an election year. All year long, we will be celebrating what our nation has meant in the past to its citizens and to the world.

Let Us Be Cautious While Choosing a New County Judge

5 months ago By News Staff

To the editor: While we, citizens of Fayette County, are forming our choice for county judge, I find it imperative that we all take great thought into deciphering between fluff and true authenticity. What comes to my mind is the name George Santos.

Cattle King Came Back From The Dead

5 months ago By Bartee Haile

Deciding the gravely wounded captain was a goner, a Confederate general gave George Littlefield a battlefield promotion to major on Dec. 26, 1863.

The Littlefields had lived in Gonzales County less than two years, when the head of the house suddenly up and died. Cut off from her kin in Mississippi, Mildred Littlefield found a way to raise and educate four children while running a successful business. To her oldest son, the ironwilled woman always served as a real-life role model.

ERCOT Says Rest Easy This Winter

5 months ago By Gary Borders

C APITAL Highlights Little chance of blackouts this winter Winter has officially arrived, and officials with the Electric Reliability Council of Texas say the Texas power grid is expected to hold up through most weather conditions, the Houston Chronicle reported. However, the boom in data centers across the state increases the risk of rolling brownouts to 1% to 2% through February.

Some Thoughts on Cattle Troughs

5 months ago By David E. Will

With colder winter temperatures ahead, cattle troughs need to be kept ice free. While this part of Texas rarely gets a long hard freeze, a day without water is hard on any animal. And no one wants to go out and chop ice one or more times a day.

Remembre When?

5 months ago By News Staff

Dec. 16-23, 1975 The fantastic La Grange Leopards, who figured out just about every imaginable way to provide their superiority on the football field, took a new page from the playbook at Abilene’s P.E.

Crockett, Talarico to Face Off in Democratic Primary

5 months ago By Gary Borders

U.S. Rep. Jasmine Crockett, D-Dallas, entered the U.S. Senate race on the final day to file, pitting her against state Rep. James Talarico, D-Round Rock. The Austin American-Statesman reported the difference between the two is more of style than substance, with both raising the issues of income inequality, rising prices, corruption and polarization.

Crockett, in her second House term, has made a name by attacking both President Donald Trump and other GOP opponents, such as U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene. In her announcement on Dec. 8, she warned Trump, “I’m coming for you.”

Crockett, Talarico to Face Off in Democratic Primary

A Christmas Prayer

5 months ago By Austin Bay

Editor’s Note: Austin Bay moved to Fayette County in June 2022. For over 25 years he’s written a weekly column for Creators Syndicate – the focus is often national security but also address economic and energy issues. Here he turns his attention to Christmas.

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