Car seats work. Just ask Mandy Watson who was in a head-on crash with her 11-month-old and 5- year-old as they were going to lunch more than a decade ago.

Flooding remains the leading cause of natural-disaster loss across the United States. The Hill Country and Central Texas have a greater risk of flash flooding than most regions of the United States. This area is called Flash FloodAlley because of the area’s steep terrain, shallow soil and unusually high rainfall rates. Heavy rains can quickly transform into walls of fast-moving water with great destructive potential.

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The Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) began work to replace a bridge on Parkerville Rd. between Cherry Rd. and FM 2237 in the Muldoon area Tuesday, Sept. 19. The work is expected to completed by Jan. 15, 2024. TxDOT will have detour and road closed signs to remind residents and visitors.

The Fayette County Retired Teachers’ Association met on Monday, Sept. 11, at the Fellowship Hall of the New Life Methodist Church (formerly First United Methodist Church) in La Grange, with 31 in attendance. Fellowship Time was a “Welcome Back!” social with Blue Bell ice cream.

Twenty-nine members of the Class of 1963 of La Grange High School celebrated the 60th anniversary of their graduation at the Sealand Seafood & Steaks restaurant in La Grange this past Saturday, Sept. 16.

F Fayetteville residents will soon reap the benefits of a business venture being established from the ground up. Rice and Paula Lummis were married last November in their beautiful family home on Rusk St.

Abram Bernsen of Plum recently won a $200 Texas Farm Bureau Homeschool Garden Grant. Bernsen plans to use the money to purchase fruit trees.

Fayette County 4-H members competed in the Colorado County Livestock Judging Contest on Saturday, Sept. 9.

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