Last Monday the La Grange City Council appointed Kendall Baker to the La Grange Main Street Advisory Board. Baker, a 17-year-old student at La Grange High School, will be the first youth representative to the Main Street board.

Due to Fayette County’s COVID-19 response the extension office had to temporarily suspend entries for the Fayette Countyu Spring Coyote and Feral Hog contest. The deadline has been extended to May 31.

Colton Roscher was among a selected number of Blinn College students inducted into the Beta Alpha Chapter of the Phi Theta Kappa Honor Society. After some delay, due to COVID-19 restrictions, the induction ceremony took place via the internet on Thursday, April 23. Phi Theta Kappa has become one of the largest and most prestigious honor societies in higher education. Membership is based primarily on academic excellence and is extended by invitation only.

Juliana Haynes of La Grange was recently initiated into The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi, the nation’s oldest and most selective all-discipline collegiate honor society. Haynes was initiated at The University of Texas at Austin.

Officers and members of the VFW Auxiliary Post 5254 voted to hold their April 21 meeting using the teleconference model with Vicki Latapie presiding.

Officially the closing party for Mullins Prairie Store was a drive through affair to comply with social distancing precautions, but many folks got their burgers and brews to and go Friday under the big oaks and hung around the grounds Friday to say farewell to the neighborhood watering hole. The adults hid from the rain under the covered stage area, kids jumped on nearby hay bales and sounds of an Aaron Gross concert (he played inside the building, but no visitors were allowed inside) played over the speakers.

Anita Lyons of Muldoon sent this question about gophers, moles and voles: “I really enjoy your gardening adventures. I have a question. I went to the garden yesterday and one tomato plant was cut off at the ground. It almost looked like a knife or weed eater had done it. Then I saw “the hole" We think it’s a gopher, mole or vole. My question is this: how do we stop him? I’m a beekeeper and I don’t allow any poisons on our land, so that’s not an option. I read that castor oil and dish detergent might work. Do you have any experience in this area? Do you have a suggestion?

The Fayette County Record and local stylists joined forces for a contest for locals to send us some of their best and/or worst quarantine haircuts and styles during when the salons were closed.

Casino Hall Opens

Fayette County Commissioners deferred action on raises for two Fayette County Sheriff’s deputies in the department’s drug interdiction unit. County Judge Joe Weber said at a meetng on Thursday, May 14, that he and the commissioners will reconsider the proposal later this summer when they begin planning next year’s budget.