The LG Girls CC teams competed at the Camp Tejas Invitational on Friday 9/20. The varsity girls placed 2nd overall out of 7 teams in the 1A-4A division.

On Saturday morning, Oct. 5, in conjunction with their monthly prayer booth on the first Saturday of each month at Bishop Pavilion, Chesley Park (Market Days), Father Mike Keppler, Vicar of St. Barnabas’s Anglican Church, will offer a short service of Blessing of the Pets at 9:30, 10:30 and 11:30 a.m. Each animal will be recognized with a “Bless my pet” medallion for its collar and a personalized St. Francis prayer card.

Music has played an important role in the history and personality of Fayetteville, and the historic courthouse and town square have played supporting roles in providing a family-friendly venue for many community and music events over the years. These roles are combined with the bi-annual Fayetteville Courthouse Music Series.

Fayette County Sheriff Keith Korenek reports on Tuesday, Sept. 17 around 2:30 p.m. Drug Interdiction Sgt. Randy Thumann and his K-9 “Kolt” conducted a traffic stop on US Hwy. 290 westbound near Deer Haven Rd. on a 2016 Cadillac Escalade for a traffic violation occupied by two males.

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A train struck a pickup on a private railroad crossing north of Winchester Wednesday afternoon, Sept. 18.

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.

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.

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.

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