Injunction Clears the Way for Power Plant Core Testing
A crowd of about 30 hopeful Fayette County landowners was disappointed when 155th District Court Judge Paul Huser granted an injunction allowing the Lower Colorado River Authority and its subcontractors to enter the land of four defendants to survey, core test and carry out other operations deemed necessary. Defendants in the case were Raymond G. Cox, H.W. Anderson, Ed Sarrazin and W.C. Haisler, and their wives. The ruling was made after an hour of sometimes heated debate between William J. Merrill, the attorney representing the Fayette County Landowners Protective Association, LCRA attorney Richard Halpain and Judge Paul Huser. Merrill argued that the City of Austin and LCRA did not have the right to eminent domain 60 miles away in Fayette County.
Sample Ballot For Nov. 5 Election
Here’s a copy of the Sample Ballot you will see when you vote this fall (including a proposition only for folks in the RTCISD school district). EARLYVOTING LOCATION, DATES,ANDTIMES FOR NOVEMBER 5, 2024 GENERAL PRESIDENTIALELECTION: Location: Fayette County Elections Office Voting Room, 275 Ellinger Road, La Grange, Texas • Monday, October 21, 2024 through Friday, October 25, 2022 from 8:00 a.m.
Quilt Guild to Host The Zen Quilter Sept. 24
Carrie Wikander, the Zen Quilter will be joining the Colorado Valley Quilt Guild Tuesday at 10 a.m. on Sept. 24. Carrie is from Fredericksburg and has a whole unique style of piecing and quilting. Carrie Wikander will present the Guild with a Trunk Show of her “upbeat funky original art with a modern flair” theme. Get ready to get wild with her designs.
New St. Mark’s Owner Is Interested in Reopening the Facility as a Hospital
La Grange City Manager Jack Thompson said he has had “very preliminary” conversations the new owner of St. Mark’s Medical Center. That owner, Mark. M. Young Sr. of Atlanta (who snagged the shuttered hospital in a federal note sale for $806,199.42 last month) sent some representatives to La Grange last week to check out the hospital, which closed last Oct. because of financial woes. Thompson said the two important takeaways he got from their conversation was that the new owner “very much would like it to be a hospital again” and that he is in the very early “due diligence” stage of his plans for the facility. – Jeff Wick
For the Record
Round Top Hermann Sons Life will hold their monthly meeting on Thursday, Sept. 26 at the Round Top American Legion Hall. Social time at 6 p.m. and meeting follows at 6:30 p.m. Election of officers will be held. Please bring sandwiches, cold cuts, chips, desserts, etc. for the meal following the meeting. Items may be brought to the meeting to sell in the Country Store to benefit the Ledbetter volunteer fire department.
