To the Editor: In response to Mr. Green’s letter on mail-in ballots.

To the Editor: The Fayette County Commissioners Court is to be commended for having the political courage and the common sense wisdom to approve the solar farm tax abatement request which will generate more tax revenue for decades to come than the special valuations granted agricultural and wildlife preserve lands. In that same vein, now is the time, for the good of the people and the land of Fayette County, for our County Officials to demand and ensure that the LCRA commits now to implement in the near future a FPP coal plant exit strategy where Fayette County will not be left with its aquifers being poisoned by FPP’s leaking coal ash pits and the resulting loss of land values that would seriously impact both county and school district tax revenues.

Two hundred Texans looking for a fight answered the call of Gen. William Walker and sailed for Nicaragua on Sep.

To the Editor: Each time I see the name “Karen” used as an insult, I think about the lady down my street with that name. The sweet lady who buys plants and leaves them at our gate, who goes out of her way to drop a little bit of color into our lives with some flowers.

As thousands fled southeast Texas ahead of Hurricane Laura, Texas A&M promoted an Ike Dike as a critical way to protect the region from devastating damage. Texas escaped a direct hit from Laura, which made landfall as a Category 4 storm in Cameron Parish, Louisiana, just east of Port Arthur.

To the Editor: Having had to travel U.S. Highway 77 both north and south numerous times per day I am drawn to the attention of the trash and litter that is strewn along the sides of the road.

To the Editor: Recently, in the second best newspaper, WSJ (we know which is best) I found inspiration for this letter. That WSJ nugget deserves expansion.

To the Editor: My husband, Rob, and I want to publicly thank Tracy Head, LGISD administrator, for helping us purchase our football game tickets online for the La grange versus Rockdale football game. We deeply appreciate her willingness and kindness in solving our ticket dilemma.

With Laura and Marco making landfall last week with devastating results does not mean we are out of the woods just yet. This next two to three weeks are the most active part of the hurricane season in the gulf. We were extremely fortunate to have Laura go to the east of us like it did. With the images coming out of Lake Charles with homes flattened and major structures having sustained damage that looks like a bomb went off just outside. Parts of the Lousiana are still completely submerged going as far as twenty miles inland, it is incredible that it did not make direct landfall with either Houston or New Orleans as either of those cities would have been in a near apocalyptic state. Even with all of the damage sustained it is a major bullet dodged for both of those cities as the damages for either one of those cities could have been in the billions of dollars scale. Some of the cities that were hit by Laura are returned to nature and most likely will never return as the only trace of these cities are the foundations and strips of asphalt that still remain. As I watched this storm make landfall on Wednesday night it was still intensifying to just five mph shy of a category five, if Laura had slowed down anymore it could have been even worse than what it was. Even though Laura might go down in history for damages there are two more storms in the east Atlantic that are forming as of the time I am writing this, which could turn into major storms at any time. All the energy they need is there and ready for the taking and turn into who knows what at this point. 2020 will go down in the record books for what has already happened, but another page might be written for the cataclysmic power of storms that have come out of the Gulf this year.

Sept. 1, 1970 The Fayette County Fair parade scheduled for 3 p.m.