As of Jan. 12, total intake for the Gardenia E. Janssen Animal Shelter is 42: 18 dogs and 24 cats in need. As of Jan. 12, the shelter has 76 animals in care: 40 dogs/36 cats. This number includes animals in the facility, in foster care for medical, waiting on available space, or awaiting transport to rescue partner.

The Fayette County Firefighter’s Association reports the following calls for the week of Jan. 7-13: Medical - 8 Gas Leak/Odor - 3 Accident - 1 Vehicle Fire - 1 Smoke Report - 1 Tree Fire - 1.

La Grange Garden Club held their annual Christmas party in the Community Room at Randolph recreation Center that had been beautifully decorated for the occasion. The lovely lunch was catered by Reba’s and followed by an elaborate array of deserts prepared by members.

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The coldest extended period of weather Fayette County has seen in two years wrapped this area in its icy grip for four days this week. Accordingly, Fayette County folks hunkered down with school, city and county departments closing as well as many businesses, but freezing precipitation was kept to a minimum.

City of La Grange crews braved some frigid weather to fix a major water leak on W. Travis St.

Sales tax payments from the state to area towns were modestly higher in January, giving the year a positive start. La Grange got nearly $220,000 for the month, up 3.4% from last January’s receipts.

Fayette Electric Cooperative (FEC) was happy to report minimal outages during the winter storm. FEC said the outages that did occur were due to high winds rather than frozen precipitation. Last Friday, Jan. 12, FEC had two power outages in their service territory – one in the Warda area and one in the Ammansville area. There were trees on the line near our Warda substation, affecting approximately 234 members in the Warda and Clear Lake Pines area. In addition, FEC said a pole came down on FM 1383, which affected power for approximately 23 members in the Ammannsville area. Contractor crews were able to replace the damaged pole. Both outages were caused by the high winds that day, FEC said

The La Grange Volunteer Fire Department lent a hand when the water pipes froze at the Gardenia E. Janssen Animal Shelter this week.