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Fayette Electric Cooperative, in partnership with Co-Bank, awarded grants to four area not-for-profit organizations at their annual meeting on July 17. These donations were made possible through Co-Bank’s Sharing Success charitable contribution program.

The Blinn College-Schulenburg Campus is offering four plant-related courses this fall. Classes will range from vegetable gardening to natural health remedies.

Summer jobs are common for teenagers, especially in small towns like La Grange. Especially now, it feels like everytime you go anywhere in La Grange you see your classmates and neighbors.

The Schulenburg Young Farmers will hold their 57th Annual Hay Show onWednesday Aug. 28 and Thursday Aug.

Superb pitching and timely hitting paid off for the La Grange Little LeagueAll-Stars in Yoakum as they sacked up the district championship with a 10-2 victory over Brenham. Greg Trlicek throttled Brenham’s powerful batters. Of La Grange’s six hits, three were doubles, driving across two runs each. Marvin Marburger scored two of the doubles.

We were all saddened to learn about the tragic death of Bill Anders, La Grange’s “Astronaut,” on June 7th of this year. His Father A. G. and his Uncle Edger “Smiles”Anders, were co-owners of Hermes Drug Store, on the courthouse square. This is the story of how that drug store and its delivery boy (me), got involved with NASA”s astronaut training program.

At Thursday’s La Grange Noon Lions Club meeting, the junior version of the Lions Club, the LEO Club, gave an update on several of their activities from the past school year. They also donated a time capsule they made and collected items for to Rox Ann Johnson of the Fayette Heritage Museum and Archives. Johnson was going to keep the time capsule in the archives for safe-keeping until the kids decided to open it at a to-be-determined future date. The time capsule (emptied out below) included everything from magazines, covid masks, eclipse glasses, an old cell phone, friendship bracelets and more. From left right above are Rox Ann Johnson accepting the time capsule from students Deacon Wick, Natalia Soto, Emily Dornwell and Devonte McKenzie.

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