Fayetteville’s Growth Greatest Among Towns La Grange’s economy continues to expand at an even faster pace than most surrounding towns, Texas sales tax data indicates. State Comptroller Glenn Hegar sent La Grange $217,489 in October as its monthly share of sales taxes collected here.

With this issue of The Fayette County Record we put a punctuation mark on our 101st year of continuous publication. That kind of consistency calls for a celebration, so we’d like to formally invite you to a celebration of your newspaper this Friday afternoon as we start our 102nd year.

In Stories I’ve Been Told – Volume 3, writer/storyteller Elaine Thomas shares 30 more inspiring accounts of ordinary people whose life experiences she describes as extraordinary. The majority of these stories have appeared over the last decade in her column in The Fayette County Record.

A box truck rolled over on SH 237 near Huenefeld Ln. just north of Warrenton Thursday morning, blocking traffic for several hours while the antiques shows that draw thousands of visitors to Warrenton and Round Top was wrapping up last week. The wreck happened around 8:30 a.m. The truck blocked the La Grange-bound lane of traffic, and cleanup operations blocked the other lane intermittently. There were no reported injuries.

Judge: ‘We are Going to Make This Work’ Momentum continues to grow for a potential hospital reopening in La Grange. Fayette County Judge Dan Mueller and La Grange Mayor Jan Dockery held a meeting with the Board of Directors of St.

The La Grange Senior Citizens annual meeting/luncheon will be held in the gym of the Randolph Recreatoin Center, 653 E. Pearl Street in La Grange, on Thursday, Nov. 2. Registration will be held from 9:30-10:30 a.m. Cash door prizes will be awarded to ten lucky attendees who have registered by 10:15 a.m. The meeting starts at 10:30 a.m. The guest speaker will be Josh Vandever, Fayette County EMS Director. Lunch consisting of chicken fried steak, twice baked potatoes, green beans, broccoli salad and peach cobbler will be served at 11:30 a.m. for $5. For more information, contact Marilyn Strmiska at (979) 247-4090.

First Ten Months of Year (Jan.-Oct.) Fayette County Cities Pct. Change Tax Rate 2023 2022 2021 2020 2022 to ’23 La Grange 1.50% 2,247,494 2,025,401 1,856,525 1,666,161 Up 10.9% Schulenburg 1.50% 1,196,993 1,034,291 774,602 742,266 Up 15.7% Flatonia 1.50% 393,430 360,903 328,537 301,433 Up 9.0% Round Top 1.50% 361,933 303,811 265,328 171,248 Up 19.1% Fayetteville 1.50% 182,330 104,234 98,790 82,361 Up 74.9% Carmine 1.50% 118,810 125,009 105,738 81,506 Down 4.9% Ellinger 1.00% 55,029 52,315 0 0 Up 5.1% Other Area Cities Bastrop 1.50% 10,232,504 9,426,040 8,192,289 6,726,210 Up 8.5% Brenham 1.50% 7,972,256 7,570,134 6,512,277 5,750,722 Up 5.3% Lockhart 1.50% 3,370,725 2,992,049 2,648,481 2,494,231 Up 12.6% Elgin 1.50% 3,172,423 2,966,482 2,489,966 2,280,739 Up 6.9% Sealy 1.50% 2,835,978 2,559,200 2,392,558 2,232,339 Up 10.8% Gonzales 1.50% 2,663,084 2,663,084 2,078,786 2,236,741 Up 0.8% Giddings 1.50% 2,362,966 2,065,550 1,666,704 1,659,492 Up 14.4% Hempstead 2.00% 2,014,502 1,930,467 1,672,327 1,536,668 Up 4.3% Caldwell 1.50% 1,823,653 1,667,827 1,397,481 1,458,501 Up 9.3% Columbus 1.50% 1,745,837 1,580,535 1,434,281 1,474,481 Up 10.4% Luling 1.50% 1,787,112 1,633,710 1,334,339 1,140,47 Up 9.3% Yoakum 2.00% 1,690,925 1,567,504 1,341,918 1,321,966 Up 7.8% Hallettsville 2.00% 1,239,089 1,187,827 1,154,954 1,090,947 Up 4.3% Bellville 1.50% 936,147 860,491 752,328 667,397 Up 8.8% Weimar 1.50% 841,551 779,141 672,400 626,586 Up 8.0% Smithville 1.50% 717,652 739,515 619,151 531,252 Down 2.9% Shiner 1.00% 494,723 450,335 325,545 316,289 Up 9.8% Eagle Lake 1.00% 354,351 327,320 311,676 276,075 Up 8.2% County Governments Bastrop 0.50% 6,946,525 6,509,242 5,288,876 4,433,402 Up 6.7% Washington 0.50% 3,946,721 3,550,796 2,918,435 2,520,459 Up 11.1% Caldwell 0.50% 2,937,132 2,411,695 2,170,953 1,836,437 Up 21.7% Fayette 0.50% 2,728,931 2,516,217 1,911,943 1,744,636 Up 8.4% Gonzales 0.50% 2,197,587 1,900,408 1,533,044 1,809,204 Up 15.6% Austin 0.50% 1,970,568 1,892,394 1,763,726 1,587,206 Up 4.1% Colorado 0.50% 1,848,443 1,651,379 1,411,907 1,836,437 Up 11.9% Lee 0.50% 1,351,459 1,280,244 1,137,918 2,273,357 Up 5.5% Burleson 0.50% 1,329,648 1,298,358 944,715 1,248,095 Up 2.4% Source: State Comptroller’s Office .