More than 20 percent of registered voters in Fayette County have cast ballots in early voting for the Nov. 8 gubernatorial election. Fayette County elections administrator Terri Hefner reports that 4,006 people have voted early though the first nine days of early voting. That amounts to 22.49 percent of the 17,810 registered voters in the County. That’s roughly on par with early voting statewide, which stood at 21.24 percent as of Wednesday. Early voting ends Friday. This year’s ballot includes only one contested local election – the County Judge race. Republican Dan Mueller faces Libertarian candidate William Martin. So far, the early voting turnout has been slightly behind pace of the last County Judge election in 2018. That year, 4,139 people voted through the first nine days of early voting. Nov. 8 is Election Day with polls around the county open from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. that day.

La Grange Police Chief David Gilbreath reports that the Fair Office building at the Fayette County Fairgrounds was burglarized on Saturday night, Oct. 29.

Poodle skirts and rolled up blue jeans were the order of the day recently as Mt. Calvary Lutheran Preschool in La Grange celebrated their 50th day of class this year on Oct.

A La Grange woman died in a single-vehicle crash on SH 237 just south of Warrenton on Friday, Oct. 21.

ALaGrangewomanescaped serious injury in a crash at the bridge on Warda Blacktop Rd. Sunday Oct. 30. The crash happened around 5:30 p.m. Fayette County Sheriff’s Deputy Seth Nagel investigated the crash. Nagel’s report saidAllene Becker Schramm, 66. of La Grange was driving east on Warda Blacktop Rd. in a black 2023 Jeep Grand Cherokee. The report said the driver was distracted inside the vehicle. The Jeep veered off the roadway to the right, struck a wooden fence and guardrail and went off the bridge across the Pin Oak Branch of Rabbs Creek. The Jeep came to rest facing east near Pin Oak Branch. Schramm was not injured and she was wearing a seat belt according to the report. Pct. 1 Commissioner Jason McBroom said the crash destroyed the guardrail on the bridge. The bridge was scheduled for replacement next year. McBroom said his crews will install a temporary guardrail to make the bridge safe until its replacement.

An 87-year-old woman from Uvalde died in a crash on SH 71 in La Grange early Saturday morning, Oct. 29.

County officials arriving to work on Wednesday morning, Nov. 2, discovered that the Fayette County Courthouse had been burglarized overnight.

Daylight Savings Time ends this weekend. Remember to set clocks back one hour Saturday night before bed..

Food truck will be in Fayetteville on Wednesday, Nov. 9, 10 to 11 a.m.

Many livestock producers in Fayette County were forced to start feeding hay earlier than usual this year due to the drought. Some cattle raisers started feeding hay back in July as the pastures turned dry.