After four decades of dedicated service, Gary Don Nietsche, esteemed general manager of Fayette Electric Cooperative, prepares to embark on his well-deserved retirement on July 1. His journey with Fayette EC began on February 1, 1981, when he joined the cooperative as an assistant to General Manager J.C. Warhol. He decided to take the job because it combined his love of engineering with an opportunity to move back to his hometown of La Grange after a career as a manufacturing engineer with Texas Instruments.

If Schulenburg doesn’t want the film studio project that hopes to build in this area, Weimar Mayor Milton Koller said his town is interested. Koller told the Record last Friday that he has arranged a meeting with Robert Norris of Creative Innovation Development, the group that wants to buy property in this area for filming Western movies.

They started their high school careers in masks but ended it in caps and gowns. Nothing came easy, or predictable, for the La Grange High School Class of 2024.

The Honor Graduates for the class of 2024 at La Grange High School were announced at graduation Thursday night. The Valedictorian is Landon von Minden, the son of Brad and Misti von Minden.

The Texas Department of Transportation will be starting a project to rehabilitate the existing roadway on SH 159 from BS 71E to SH 237 on Monday, June 3, weather permitting. In order to replace several drainage structures, SH 159 will be closed intermittently over approximately six weeks beginning on Monday, June 3. The road closures will take place in between SH 71 and SH 237. Below are the dates and approximate duration of the SH 159 road closures (weather permitting) that will take place over the course of six weeks:

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Congratulations to Dominick Smith of La Grange High School who will be graduating a year early due to qualifying for the Texas First Early High School Completion Program. He is the first LHS student to do so via this program, which started in 2021.

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A landscaping plant and bluebonnet seed sale benefitting Gardenia Janssen Animal Shelter will be held at The Crown Bar at 114 S. Main Street in La Grange. Hundreds of healthy, professionally raised native plants in gallon or larger planter or hanging containers, perfect for summer landscaping, will be available at low price or free will donations directly benefiting the animal shelter. Additionally, over 30,000 bluebonnet seeds sustainably harvested in the local area will be available in various packet sizes for free will donations. The amazing Passing Strangers will perform a concert Saturday evening at the location at 7:30 p.m. Sale times will be Friday from 5 - 10 p.m. and Saturday from 8 a.m. - 10 p.m.

It’s been a week of goodbyes for Father Felix Twumasi, the priest at the Hostyn and Plum churches. After six years serving in the Diocese of Victoria, he is leaving at the end of the month to further his studies at the request of his bishop in Ghana.