Three Years After Harvey, Hope Has Conquered Fear To the Editor: COVID-19 isn’t the only thing contagious. So is fear.

The Gonzales Inquirer • After a video showing Gonzales ISD students crowded in a hallway was shared online, the district has issued a statement saying the incident is being investigated. “We became aware of the situation,” GISD Director of Public Relations Robin Trojack said.

The Round Top Lions Club Free Friday Night Movies on Henkel Square wrap-up this week with The Greatest Showman. The movie will begin at 8:45 p.m.

The Shared Lutheran Ministry will be hosting parking lot worship on Sept. 6 and Sept. 20. The SLM will meet in Warrenton at 9 a.m. You are welcome to bring lawn chairs and sit under the trees, distanced from other worshippers. It has been lovely under the huge oak trees at that time of day.

With the modern and supposedly more humane electric chair due to replace the gallows at midnight, an overflow crowd packed the courthouse square in Angleton on Aug. 31, 1923 for the last public execution in Texas.

Empathy. Been hearing that word a lot, recently.

Students across Texas returned to campuses last week as schools and universities scrambled to put into place new lesson plans that best accommodate a pandemic. For many school districts, this meant greatly expanding the technological resources of their students to support a mix of in-person and online education.

School’s back in session for the Wick kids. And not a moment too soon.

August 25-28, 1970 La Grange miraculously escaped what could have been a disastrous fire on Friday. At 12:20 p.m., the driver of a westbound 1968 White truck-tractor swerved to avoid hitting a passenger car entering Hwy.

The dogs are at summer camp: running playing, scuffling, growling, sleeping. Doing what all kids do at camp when a deadly virus isn’t threatening.