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In 1974, Fayette County was the third largest producer of eggs and hens and pullets of laying age in the state. The county’s total production was 10,375,000 dozen eggs and 525,000 hens and pullets. Texas was among the top 10 poultry and egg-producing states in the U.S.

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Fayette County lost 911 service Wednesday, June 12, after highway workers cut a fiber optic line on US 77 north of La Grange. Contractors working for the Texas Department of Transportation recently began clearing the right-of-way along US 77 between La Grange and the Lee County Line.

“God has provided a beautiful house.” Pastor Austin Jones prayed those words as he gave the invocation at a groundbreaking ceremony for a new Habitat for Humanity home in La Grange’s Hope Hill Subdivision. The ceremony on Saturday morning, June 15, marks the beginning of a new chapter in the lives of Johnny Wright and his family.

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Adamcik, Boone Alley, Savannah Barnett, Nora Benavides, Danica Beseda, Castokn Blaschke, Braygen Brooks, Emmersyn Carey, Maxwell Cordero Mendoza Hovey, Zahari Dobbins, Caiden Ezer, Samuel Galindo, Jose Garcia, Lennon Gerdes, Teighlor Gonzalez, Leila Guo, Yihe Herbrich, Everly Hernandez, Tyler Iraheta, Adam Johnson, Berkley Jordy, Jackson Kindsvatter, Emma Kindsvatter, Lillian Koehl, Brantley Laurentz, Lindsay Llyod, Lauren Lopez Hernandez, Marlene Maldonado, Eva Maldonado, Samuel Martinez Cardona, Leonardo McCullough, Reagan Mckenzie, Madden McMullin, Makena Menefee, Colby Mikulin, Holly Mouton, Lyllah, Mozisek, Stella Neeley, Aryan Orona-Ramirez, Giovani Osorio, Aiden Pace, Saber Perez, Delaenie Pohl, Myles Ramirez, Aurora Rios, Leah Roesler, Vivian Sawyer, David Scarborough, Opie Schneider, Kynsley Soto, Dalary, Soto, Santiago Tavarez, Raelen Thomison, Kinsley Tiemann, Andrew Torres, Lilia Ulrich, Kyle Walker, Kolby Wright, Sidney Zabriskie, Grayson Zuniga, Stephanie

Brawley, Kyndal Lynn Cernosek, Abby, Claire Cowen, Lyla, Rose Emmel, Makenna, J Finch, Tanner, Lawrence Griffin, Harper, Suzanne Gutierrez, Raylee, Kate Hollek, Gabriella, Elizabeth Kallus, Kenlie Josephine-Anastasia Mitchell, Hannah, Michelle Salinas, Allyanna, Bella Veitch, Briella, Nadalye

The annual Crops Tour is an educational event for anyone who is interested in row crop production. The tour will be held on Wednesday June 26 at the Fayette County Agricultural Building, 255 Svoboda Lane in La Grange. Registration is from 8-8:30 a.m. and will conclude about noon followed by a catered lunch.

OBERON: “ I know a bank where the wild thyme blows, Where oxlips and the nodding violet grows, Quite over-canopied with luscious woodbine, With sweet musk-roses and with eglantine: There sleeps Titania sometime of the night, Lull’d in these flowers with dances and delight; And there the snake throws her enamell’d skin, Weed wide enough to wrap a fairy in: And with the juice of this I’ll streak her eyes, And make her full of hateful fantasies.”