Tuesday starts an extra special season for La Grange head volleyball coach Leslie Coltrain – the final season coaching her daughter Emma, who is a senior. “It is just a little surreal.

The Fayette County Panthers six-man football team will not play this season said the team’s founder C.H. Harvey.

Former Houston Oiler quarterback Dan Pastorini (shown here signing autographs) spent Saturday visiting with attendees at the Schulenburg Festival. His appearance was sponsored by attorney Ken Bigham. Pastorini was a first round draft pick by the Oilers (third overall pick) and played for the Oilers from 1971 to 1979 before winning a Super Bowl with the Raiders in 1980. After his football career he pursued a career as a Top Fuel dragster driver in the National Hot Rod Association. He is 72 years old. Photo by Andy Behlen

Monday marked the 12th first day of football practice at La Grange High School for head coach Matt Kates, the longest serving head coach in school history for a Leopard program that’s been around for more than a century.

The Texas High School Basketball Hall of Fame last week announced its newest members, including former Schulenburg basketball coach Larry Tidwell. He coached in Schulenburg from 1984 to 1992.

High school volleyball teams in Fayette County began practicing earlier this week and are now having their first scrimmages. They all begin regular season matches next week.

The 2021 La Grange varsity volleyball team has been named. Here are those Lady Leps:.

Last week the Record profiled Dave Oldham’s Olympic display at Kat’s Too Antiques on the Square in La Grange. Bryan Lock, also a vendor at Kat’s Too, has an interesting Olympic connection, which took place in 2018 at Kadena Air Force Base in Okinawa, Japan.

La Grange native Homer Bailey is getting closer to a return to the major leagues. Two weeks ago Bailey was promoted to the Oakland A’s Triple-A affiliate in Las Vegas, where he has made three starts, pitching ten total innings and allowing just three earned runs over that span while striking out 11 and walking just one.

Dave Oldham (left) of Kat’s Too Antiques on the Square in La Grange has put up on display his personal collection of his Olympic Games memorabilia. Oldham attended the 2002 Winter Games in Salt Lake City and witnessed Derek Parra win the gold medal in the 1500 meter speed skating final. That win was immortalized in a watercolor painting by the artist Marc Ahr – one of the highlights of Oldham’s collection (pictured right).