To the Editor: As I sit here reflecting on my 41 amazing years of service at Sacred Heart School, I am filled with gratitude and peace. I have built 4 decades of indescribable memories with incredible students, families, fellow teachers, administrators, priests and support staff that keep this school running oh so well.

To the Editor: Most of us believe voters pick our leaders – politicians do not pick which voters to heed and which to silence. I strongly oppose the Governor’s inclusion of congressional redistricting legislation in the Special Session of the 89th Texas Legislature.

Every day in Fayette County, stray animals such as dogs, cats, and occasionally rabbits or ferrets roam our neighborhoods. Often unnoticed and too often ignored, these animals face serious risks including hunger, disease, traffic, and exposure to extreme weather. This is not just an issue of animal welfare. It has become a broader concern that impacts public health, safety, and community resources.

The La Grange Independent School District faced a severe economic pinch, according to Superintendent C.A. Lemmons. Even with drastic cuts in materials and supplies, 1975-76 expenditures were projected to be $35,000 higher than receipts. The squeeze was the result of House Bill 1126, passed by the Texas Legislature, which raised salaries of teachers and aides by $140,000 while giving the school district only $40,000 to meet the costs. Salaries of teachers would increase by a minimum of $140 per month and $70 a month for aides. Under the average daily attendance formula laid down by the new law, La Grange could lose eight teachers. “But we’ve already hired those teachers,” Mr. Lemmons said.

Marine Capt. Charles William Paddock, the first native Texan to win Olympic gold and the fastest thing on two feet during the Roaring Twenties, perished in an Alaska plane crash on July 21, 1943.

Search teams have recovered 103 bodies in Kerr County after the devastating July 4 floods along the Guadalupe River, with Gov. Greg Abbott saying at least 161 people were still unaccounted for.

My family lived many years in San Antonio Texas. If anyone ever asks me where I’m from, I say San Antonio, regardless of the fact that I spent more years in Houston than I spent in San Antonio. San Antonio and the surrounding hill country hold the best memories for me and were the best years of my life. If you grew up in the hill country, you can easily take its beauty for granted and don’t realize what a fabulous place it is until you move to a big city like Houston. But that’s another story for another time.

I was eight years old the first time I remember choosing to be someone I really wasn’t.Akid in my third-grade class showed up one day with a cast on his arm, and I was amazed—maybe even a little jealous—at all the attention he got. The next morning, I snuck into our medicine cabinet, pulled out an ace bandage, and wrapped it around my own arm—not because I was hurt, but because I was pretty sure I had discovered something. I came up with a story about how I had injured it, and that day at school, I got exactly what I was looking for. The girls showed me sympathy, the boys thought I was tough, and I got to sit out during P.E. It felt like I had unlocked a secret: if I could control what people believed about me—even if it wasn’t true—I could get what I wanted.

A longtime friend has died and I didn’t get to say goodbye. Janetta Morris strolled into the La Grange Area Chamber of Commerce office on a fall day in November 1994 to introduce herself as the new owner of the RV and mobile home park, Colorado Landing, nestled along the banks of the Colorado River at the southern end of Main Street.

To the Editor: The LCRA Fayette Power Plant has once again given public notice of its application to relax pollution monitoring requirements. This proposed change would reduce how often samples are collected and decrease the number of sampling locations.