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The Fayette County Firefighter’s Association reports the following calls for the week of Aug. 21-27: Vehicle Fire - 1 Fire Alarm - 1 Medical - 3 Grass Fire - 1 Gas Leak/Odor - 1.

As of Aug. 26, the total intake at the Gardenia E. Janssen Animal shelter is 915: 402 dogs and 513 cats in need. As of Aug. 26, the shelter has 138 animals in care: 58 dogs/80 cats. This number includes animals in the facility, in foster care for medical, waiting on available space, or awaiting transport to rescue partner.

Bluebonnet Electric Cooperative’s offices will be closed Monday, Sept. 5, in observance of Labor Day. Bluebonnet members can access their account information and make payments while the offices are closed through the co-op’s website at bluebonnet.coop.

Schulenburg superintendent Duane Limbaugh and his wife Jennifer were involved in a serious car accident Saturday morning on Interstate-10 when their car was rear-ended by an 18-wheeler. As you can see in the picture below, it was a very violent accident. Here’s a message from Duane Limbaugh

The Central Texas Food Truck will be at St. John’s Hall parking lot in Fayetteville on Thursday, Sept. 1 from 10 to 11 a.m. This is a drive-thru distribution with clients remaining in their car and volunteers will place the boxes in your vehicle.

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On Aug. 25, 2017, Hurricane Harvey made landfall at Port Aransas.

Fayette County Commissioners decided at their meeting last Thursday to hold a countywide tire pickup event in early November. Specific dates will be announced at a later time.

Carmine News Correspondent Round Top-Carmine High School JV and varsity volleyball teams will host Brazos Sept. 2 at 5 p.m.

After four days of deliberation, jurors announced they could not unanimously decide whether or not to convict former Blue Bell CEO Paul Kruse on federal charges of wire fraud and conspiracy connected to the ice cream company’s deadly listeria outbreak nearly a decade