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Fayette Savings Bank donates to Weimar ISD
Fayette Savings Bank donates to Weimar ISD
Fayette Savings Bank made a donation to the Weimar ISD from its School Debit Card Program. FSB customers who chose to have the Wildcat debit card con - tribute toward the program indi - 05/31/2023 23:00
Moonside Macaron cuts EL ribbon
Moonside Macaron cuts EL ribbon
Moonside Macaron cuts EL ribbon 05/31/2023 23:00
Car crash leaves minor structural damage
Car crash leaves minor structural damage
Car crash leaves minor structural damage 05/31/2023 23:00
Camp Oak Haven to hold ribbon cutting
Camp Oak Haven to hold ribbon cutting
05/31/2023 23:00
Columbus Time Capsule buried until 2073
Columbus Time Capsule buried until 2073
COLUMBUS - The fifth graders from Columbus Elemen - tary School and St. Anthony's School came together on May 11 to bring together the items buried in the next time capsule. Each class made a collection of items to be encapsulated for the next 50 years for citizens of Colum - bus in 2073. Some of the many things put in the metal box were scrapbooks with pictures and articles, paraphernalia from Co - lumbus's bicentennial, almost a year's worth of newspapers from The Houston Chronicle, The Col - orado County Citizen, The Ban - ner Press Newspaper, and even a couple of iPhones. 05/31/2023 23:00
AgriLife Extension office offers summer classes
AgriLife Extension office offers summer classes
05/31/2023 23:00
Egg prices plummet
Egg prices plummet
Egg prices appear to be tak - ing a supply and demand mar - 05/31/2023 23:00
Boot Camp to prepare students for TSIA test and verify ‘College Readiness’
Boot Camp to prepare students for TSIA test and verify ‘College Readiness’
The Texas Success Initiative was enacted by Texas legislators for all public state institutions of higher education. The TSI Assessment (TSIA) evaluates students’ readiness for college-level coursework in reading, writing, and mathematics. Students participating in dual credit classes must meet the minimum passing standards to enroll. 05/31/2023 23:00
Fayette Electric demonstrates electric safety
Fayette Electric demonstrates electric safety
Fayette Electric Cooperative employees recently participated in the Progressive Ag Safety Day held May 12 at the Fayette County Fairgrounds in La Grange Safety Coordinator Larry Sulak narrated, while Lineman Justin Whited and Apprentice Lineman Justin Neiser demonstrated a variety of different scenarios that children could find themselves in while playing outside around electricity. These demonstrations included an electric arcing demo, a kite contacting an electric line, tree limbs touching electric lines, clothing contacting a power line as well as several others. 05/31/2023 23:00
FSB donates to St. Michael School
FSB donates to St. Michael School
Fayette Savings Bank made a donation to St. Michael School in Weimar from its School Debit Card Program. FSB customers who chose to have the SMS Swords debit card contribute toward the program indirectly, as each time they make a purchase using the card, a percentage of each swipe goes to SMS. Donations are being made to all of the schools FSB has school debit cards for - La Grange, Flatonia, Schulenburg and Weimar ISDs, as well as Sacred Heart School in La Grange. St. Rose School in Schulenburg and St. Michael School in Weimar. 05/31/2023 23:00
EMS Director issues statement on Air Evac Lifeteam base closure
EMS Director issues statement on Air Evac Lifeteam base closure
EMS Director for Fayette County EMS Joshua Vandever released a statement to the public regarding the closure of La Grange’s Air Evacuation 47 base. 05/31/2023 23:00
Summer Day Camp offered by ACCSS
Summer Day Camp offered by ACCSS
It’s never too early to start talking to your children about what they want to be when they grow up. Eventually the “princess” and the “MLB player” will need to start planning about what their path to post-secondary success will involve. Will this be college stepping towards a career? Or trade school? Or stepping straight into their career from high school because of credentials they earned during this time? 05/31/2023 23:00
Farmers Market grows every month
Farmers Market grows every month
Market Days on the Square take a summer vacation 05/31/2023 23:00
Texas House impeaches AG Paxton
Texas House impeaches AG Paxton
The Texas House voted overwhelmingly to impeach Attorney General Ken Paxton Saturday, only the third time in the state’s history that has occurred. 05/31/2023 23:00
William Mosby Eastland
William Mosby Eastland
William Mosby Eastland was born in Kentucky to Thomas Butler and Nancy Mosby Eastland. 05/31/2023 23:00
Columbus KCs donate $5,000 to the Queen of the Holy Rosary Catholic Church
Columbus KCs donate $5,000 to the Queen of the Holy Rosary Catholic Church
A $5,000.00 donation was recently deposited into the Matching Funds Campaign account at Fayette Savings Bank for the ben- efit of the Queen of the Holy Ro sary Catholic Church in Hostyn, rebuilding fund by the Columbus KC Council 2971 from proceeds raised from their March 26 pork steak drive-through dinner. 05/31/2023 23:00
Brent Gorman Sr. receives
Brent Gorman Sr. receives
Firefighter of the Year award 05/31/2023 23:00
“Too Old”
“Too Old”
My new friend, Betty Lou, started a book club, and she asked me to join. 05/31/2023 23:00
Eggs-actly
Eggs-actly
There have been countless conversations around the kitchen table on the subject. There have been heated debates over it. No, it’s not something so simple as “Why did the chicken cross the road?” 05/31/2023 23:00
Did You Know…
Did You Know…
- Texas means Friends in Caddo Indian - Austin is the live music capital of the world - Texas boasts America’s largest rose garden in Tyler - Texas the the USA’s second- largest state - Texas was once an independent nation - Six flags have ruled over Tex as - Dr Pepper was invented in Texas - Texas has several state animals that includes armadillo and longhorns - Texas has more bat species than any US state - Texas has three of the largest cities in the US - Texas held the world's first rodeo - Texas has the world’s largest convenience store. Yep, Buc-ee’s - Vietnamese and Chinese follow up English and Spanish in Texas - There is a German dialect that is unique to Texas 05/31/2023 23:00
The Boy Who Invented TV
The Boy Who Invented TV
On July 3, 1957, Philo T. Farnsworth appeared as a guest on the popular game show I’ve Got a Secret. As none of the panelists guessed Philo’s secret, he won the game, taking home $80 cash and a carton of Winston cigarettes. What was Philo’s secret? At the age of 14, he invented television. During his lifetime, this was his only TV appearance. 05/31/2023 23:00
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