The City of La Grange will pursue a grant from Texas Parks and Wildlife to build a new city park within the new Hope Hill subdivision along Horton Street. The subdivision developer, Samaritan’s Purse, agreed to donate 6.19 acres of land within the neighborhood to the City for a future park.

The entire graduating class of the Blinn College-Brenham Campus Vocational Nursing Program has passed a rigorous national exam. Kaylee Bernick (Brenham), TreAndranique Green (Bryan), Brittany Greene (Houston), Nakyshia Guyton (College Station), Mallory Hanath (Chappell Hill), Sydni Havel (Giddings), Brooke Hynes (Brenham), Shelby Jones-Dunk (Ellinger), Latajez Josey (Sealy), Jaquel London (Hempstead), Monica Million (Somerville), Kayden Pieper (Brenham), Lisa Prestwood (Brenham), Jessica Rodriguez-Salas (Brenham), Taylor Singer (Bellville), Deja Tolbert (Bellville), Christina Trevino (Somerville), Dulce Valles (Brenham), Brooke Vinklarek (La Grange), Nickoya Virgil (Katy), Lydia Weigelt (Brenham), Sarah Wiltshire (College Station), Alencia Woodberry (Brenham), Shelby Wunderlich (Weimar), Ashley Yantz (Giddings), and Daniela Zamora (Brenham) passed the National Council Licensure Examination (NCLEX-PN).

Fayette County Sheriff Keith Korenek reports that on Wednesday, Sept. 23 in the morning morning around 11:30 a.m. Deputy Rick Bohlmann conducted a traffic stop on I-10 near the 668 mile marker eastbound near the Engle exit on a 2010 Cadillac for a traffic violation.

One hundred years ago, in July 1920, Dr. Frank J. Guenther of Moulton bought the Byrnes home and double lot on East Guadalupe Street in La Grange, with the intention of making it La Grange’s first hospital. The house was built some time before 1880 for Major J. M. Byrnes, a Confederate army veteran who came to La Grange as a cotton buyer after the Civil War. His widow, Delphine, was still living in the home at the time of the sale.

Fayette County Sheriff Keith Korenek reports that on Wednesday, Sept. 23 afternoon around 3 p.m. Deputy Rick Bohlmann conducted a traffic stop on I-10 near the 668 mile marker eastbound near the Engle exit on a 2016 Nissan Altima for a traffic violation. As Deputy Bohlmann approached the stopped vehicle, he observed a male driver and female passenger as the vehicle sped off.

On Sept. 18, a grand jury charged Harvey Cyphers, 53, with one count of capital murder and four counts of murder for the deaths of Sidney Taylor and Krislyn Gisbon, who were visiting Austin from Houston to attend the 2016 Urban Music Festival.