To the Editor: How many times does anybody have to tell us about if we all get the shot we can get back to normal? I don’t care if you are a Democrat, Republican or Libertarian we will have to live in a new post-COVID world. The year 2019 will never come back and we will not magically forget the past two years.

To the Editor: Gov. Abbott’s behavior about COVID is quite simple to understand given the significance of political primaries.

This year, due to the COVID issues, St. Mary Catholic Church 71 Annual Bazaar will be a scaled down event consisting of an online auction, a raffle, and a drive-thru meal.

La Grange Police Chief David Gilbreath reports on the following incidents his department responded to during the week of Aug. 1-8.

On Aug. 14, 1842, the secretary of war and marine gave a mysterious Missourian everything he wanted: a colonel’s commission, the money and authority to raise a mercenary force and his sealed orders.

The saga detailing my cooking ineptness continues as I experiment with Instant Pot recipes that apparently don’t work for me but do for millions of other would be chefs. I cooked my second batch of pinto beans, with just a few embarrassing incidents.

The number of Texans hospitalized with lab-confirmed COVID-19 cases is increasing faster than at any other point since the pandemic began in early 2020, due to the highly contagious delta variant. As of Sunday, the Texas Department of State Health Services reported 8,892 people were in Texas hospitals.

I caught COVID last November, had a few tough days, but came out of it just fine (except when you see a typo in the newspaper, then feel free to blame it on some lingering side effect of COVID; my brain must still be suffering from rather than the more plausible reason of my general incompetence that predated COVID).

To the Editor: To reply to John Mikus last week’s letter to the editor, calling me out for my previous letter, well Mr. Mikus, of course I share sadness with anyone who has had or has lost someone to Covid.

To the Editor: For the past two weeks, I’ve seen the FC Republican county chair submitting letters to the FCR complaining about the size of a letter submitted by a resident of Fayette County while politicizing the vaccine and peddling long debunked falsehoods in regard to the vaccine. You would think that as the Delta variant continues to ravage Texans, filling our hospitals, and killing our residents that she would have something more enlightening to discuss in her submissions.