With the Schulenburg Festival coming up, there has been so much activity at Wolters Park. NVCC will be closed from Aug. 1-9 for safety reasons as city crews work on Schulenburg Festival preparations. This past week, there has been heavy equipment like sky-lifts, dump trucks, fork-lifts and the chattering noise of chain saws, so there are various safety concerns and we must minimize the chance for any damage or accidents. The center wil be open for the rest of July.

Seven students have completed the Certified Medication Aide (CMA) Program at the Blinn College-Schulenburg Campus. Completing the 140-hour course were Shawn Allen, Sariah Garza, Regina Hawkins, Sabrina Lichnovsky, Claudia Mexicano Martinez, Desiree Sanchez, and Kantrese Stewart.

Schulenburg Police Chief Troy Brenek reports that officers responded to 81 calls for service during the week of July 10 through July 16. On July 11, Officer Castilleja was contacted at the Police Department in regard to the burglary of a vehicle at Holiday Inn.

County workers sometimes need a place to sit down, and every year the County purchases a number of chairs for the various departments. Here’s a look at the estimated costs for new chairs requested in next year’s budget.

While many thought we’d be done with COVID by now, the coronavirus continues to hang around. Nationwide there’s been a slight uptick in cases recently.

The story about La Grange City Council meeting and proposed Hope Hill annexation from Friday’s paper incorrectly stated the date for the public hearing. The public hearing for the proposed annexation will be on Aug. 9. A legal notice about the public hearing appears on page B3 in today’s paper.

July 16-23, 1971 A two-foot-wide hole was chipped into the outer rock and masonry wall of the Oeltjen & Schovajsa law office building in the 200 block of W. Colorado St.

A Schulenburg native was standing on the ramp at Spaceport America last Sunday when Virgin Galactic founder Richard Branson entered space aboard the spaceship he helped build, VSS Unity. Cameron Klesel wasn’t just there to watch, though.

Fayette County Commissioners Court held a special meeting Thursday afternoon to review department requests for the 2022 County budget. Total budget requests this year stand at $28,257,978.94.

With an entirely new staff of band directors coming into this school year at La Grange ISD, a “Meet the Directors” event was held Friday at the high school band hall for parents and band students to chat with the new guys. Above, left to right, they are Assistant Band Director Christian Pitre (who just graduated from LSU), Head Band Director Christopher Cooper (most recently of Big Lake Reagan County ISD), and Assistant Band Director Eric Daniels (who most recently was working in Katy). Cooper led Big Lake to numerous band honors over the past several years and just finished his 10th year as a band director. Cooper’s wife is going to teach AP U.S. History at Cedar Creek High School and his two sons, Devin and Kayden, will be going into 8th and 5th grade respectively at La Grange ISD. The summer band schedule is printed on Page A2 today. Photo by Jeff Wick