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The Blinn College District will offer three online Czech language courses this fall. Beginning Czech I and Intermediate Czech I will run Aug.

City of La Grange workers recently uncovered the old goldfish pond in the plaza at City Hall. The long-forgotten water feature was filled with dirt and capped with a concrete lid several decades ago.

Commercial activity in Schulenburg picked up recently with four new businesses opening or soon to open. Workers have been busy renovating the old Diamond S Restaurant at 22 N.

Many locals may remember Pastor Bill Hassel who served Saint Paul Lutheran Church in La Grange from 1985 to 1998. He endeared himself to many during this time, but then along with wife Renee moved on to serve First English Lutheran Church in Victoria. Pastor Bill was stricken with ALS a few years later and continues to fight the disease as well as serving others wherever and whenever he can. He remains a dear friend to many here in La Grange, and he is still in the email group for the Saint Paul Fishers of Men (the church men’s group), which he helped to form. As such, he still receives every message sent out to the group. When Norma Adams, a Saint Paul church member needed help finding someone to build a wheelchair ramp and to find a powered wheelchair for her injured and disabled son Vince, the request was sent out to Fishers of Men. Pastor Bill saw this message and his immediate response was “I can’t help with a ramp. However, I can with a wheelchair!” He had an extra chair that he no longer uses and graciously donated it to someone who really needed it. He and Renee even delivered the chair to La Grange.

Once again the La Grange School Board meeting began with commentary on the concern for book purchases, only this time the majority of the speakers were commenting on the need to allow the librarians to do their job and choose books that are appropriate for the age and reading level of the students.

As of April 12, the total intake for the Gardenia E. Janssen Animal Shelter is 406: 220 dogs and 186 cats in need.

Exo’s Utility Services Division will start steel pole inspections for Fayette Electric Cooperative beginning Monday, April 22. The EXO crews will be driving gray Ford 150 pickups with the EXO logo displayed on them.

In their final regular season home game, La Grange’s senior softball players put on a show as they smashed Giddings 15-0 Tuesday. La Grange senior Marissa Gonzales drove in Kylin Brawley to put the Lady Leps up by 15 in the bottom of the fourth inning to enact the mercy rule and end the game early.