LG Garden Club The La Grange Garden Club will meet at the Randolph Recreation Center located at 653 E. Pearl St.

The capital murder trial against Billy Polasek for the July 4, 2016 death of seven-month-old Logan Atkins continued last week in La Grange. Atkins’ mother and Polasek’s girlfriend at the time, Nicole Lambert, took the witness stand on Thursday.

Fayetteville High School held its Homecoming festivities last week, including the crowning of homecoming royalty. Left to right, that royalty was: King - Seth Kulhanek, Queen - Alley Keen, Princess - Amanda Berry, Prince - Kolton Vasut.

If you live in La Grange and you don’t know Dean Ahlschlager, then you probably don’t own a dog. “You can describe a dog to him and he knows where it belongs,” said La Grange Police Chief David Gilbreath.

Friday was the deadline for folks to file for local city and school board races (not to be confused with the county primaries going on now). Election Day for these city/school races is May 7.

In the midst of some very heated county elections, it seems lots of folks have yet to make up their minds. Or at least they haven’t made their choice official.

African Americans have played vital roles in America’s Armed Services’ disputes for land, wealth and freedom, dating from the Revolutionary War through the desegregation of the Armed Forces to the Gulf War, and even now with our stance on Afghanistan and Russia. African Americans regularly contributed to this country’s Armed Forces by any means needed or required. Thus, their extraordinary skillfulness to learn complicated military competencies, which seemed highly peculiar for military leaders to understand, prompted these leaders to give African American soldiers notable names like “Buffalo Soldiers” and “Tuskegee Airmen” that we still hear about today. History is chock-full of heroic and courageous African American men and women who laid down their lives for their enduring love of the United States of America.