An anonymous donor gave $20,000 to the Fayette County Fair association to kick off a “matching funds” campaign to benefit the fairgrounds improvement project. The account is set up at Fayette Savings Bank.

The 2023 Fayette County Fair Volunteer of the Year attended her first fair at the tender age of two weeks old and has attended the fair every year since. Shannon Koehl Hemmitt was born into a family that volunteered and participated in the fair in some form each year, especially in the Livestock areas. Shannon’s parents, Marilyn and the late Roy Koehl, chaired and helped with the sheep and lamb shows since the mid-1970s until her dad’s passing in 2017. Therefore, only fitting that she followed in her parent’s footsteps.

La Grange City Manager Fred Bell resigned on Monday, Aug. 21.

Local political activist William Bernsen was kicked out of the Fayette County Commissioners Court meeting last Thursday after Pct. 4 Commissioner Drew Brossmann rebuked him over criticism of the County’s budget plans for next year.

The schools in Fayette County provided the Record with their beginning-of-year enrollment numbers. School officials said these numbers may fluctuate slightly with late enrollments or transfers.

A fire north of La Grange burned a pile of old tires and other debris north of La Grange on Thursday, Aug. 24.

Round Top Family library will have dance instructor Anna McBride at the library on Thursdays, K-2nd 5 until 5:30 p.m. 3rd to 6th 5:30 until 6:15 p.m. Registration is required, this is a free class. Contact the library for details email; info@ilovetoread.org or call (979) 249-2700.

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Class will include terminology, word processing, and safe Internet usage The Blinn College-Schulenburg Campus is offering a hands-on, introductory computer refresher course this fall. The class will include basic computer terminology of hardware and programs, basic word processing, and internet safety and navigation.

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