The filing period for municipal elections ended on Friday, Feb. 17, and there will be several contested elections around the County.

Mrs. Hoelscher and Mrs. Tousek’s La Grange Middle School 8th grade classes are having a bake sale in front of Brawley Dental in La Grange on Saturday, Feb. 25 from 8:30 a.m. until sold out. The bake sale will benefit the La Grange Optimist Club to help with sign up fees and equipment. Please come out and help our local youth.

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A Flatonia man died in a wreck on SH 95 north of Flatonia Monday morning, Feb. 20.

Kate Repp of Carmine, was named to Montclair State University’s Fall 2022 Dean’s List. Repp is a theatre major.

Turtle Wing strives to bring informative and relevant trainings to the rural area for educational professionals and the community as a whole, especially in relation to what we are hearing is needed from daycare staff, school teachers and administration, and families.

La Grange Police arrested a man with a gun in the Whataburger parking lot for driving while intoxicated on Jan. 29.

Two months into the year, sales tax growth for Fayette County continues to surge. State Comptroller Glenn Hegar has sent $580,325 to the county treasury so far in 2023.

Grown-ups are welcome to come and shop the La Grange Elementary Library Book Fair after school from 4 until 5:30 p.m. on Feb. 22-28. Monetary donations are accepted to purchase books for the library and book vending machine online at https://tinyurl.com/ mry35vs8, or donations can be dropped off in person at the school office from 8 a.m. to 2:45 p.m.