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COLUMBUS – The Columbus Chamber of Commerce invites everyone to a ribbon cutting for Prosperity Bank – Mortgages with Lindsey in front of the Stafford Opera House at 425 Spring St. in Columbus.

COLUMBUS – The Dilue Rose Harris Chapter of the Daughters of the Republic of Texas (DRT) welcomed self-described “history buff,” Daniel Newsom with the local Texas Historical Shootist Society (THSS) at their Jan. 23 meeting.

FAYETTEVILLE - Arts for Rural Texas (ARTS) presents A Riot of Color: Embracing Expressive Chaos, featuring the bold and brilliantly charged works of Jeremy Serna. Serna, recognized for his mastery in transforming canvas into worlds of color, form, and life, brings a unique perspective to the world of im pressionist art.

Madelyn Rerich

LA GRANGE - Derek Spence will headline this month's 23rd anniversa -

Fayette County Sheriff Keith Korenek and other agencies are raising awareness about scams that prey on the vulnerable. Along with the Social Security Administration and the Office of the Inspector General, as part of National Consumer Protection Week, agencies are letting people know that scams are becoming even more sophisticated and believable.

Bellville girl’s basketball made progress in the ’24 season as they posted a near .500 overall record for the year. Second-year head coach Mike Dewitz knows basketball like the back of his hand with plenty of experience, as basketball runs in his family with his dad being selected 19th overall by the Detroit Pistons in the 1958 NBA Draft. Dewitz has also worked plenty of camps at the high school and college level.

Tony Tsounakas recognized for service dedication

COLUMBUS - The Colorado County Go Texan Valentine's Dinner and Dance was held on Feb. 9 at the Colorado County Fairgrounds Hall in Columbus.

LA GRANGE – Fayette County EMS is at the forefront of redefining how first responders implement trauma-informed care for their personnel in Fayette County.

This was the year for the UIL Realignment, where they decide which schools should be in each district and region.

The Green Door Fund for Workforce Development and Education, an internal program of the Fayette Community Foundation, is committed to providing job awareness, training, and career opportunities to local students and young adults in Fayette County and the surrounding rural region. Emphasizing alternatives to traditional college education, the fund aims to support local students who represent the overlooked and underserved 38% of high school graduates in the U.S. who do not pursue college, along with the 16% who do not graduate high school. Led by an Advisory Council comprised of noted and trusted members of our community, The Green Door Fund is working towards enhancing the quality of life for all members of our rural region by helping our youth find mean ingful employment and our busi- nesses find the staff they need to operate successfully.

Daughters of the Republic of Texas (DRT) local chapter President Kathleen Townzen, found a colorful resource map of Texas, depicting historical, geologic, and cultural aspects throughout the state.

Sometimes we just need to get away–change the routine, walk new trails, see new views, hear new discourse, and just listen. That is exactly what the Columbus Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors did last week as they traveled to Stoney Creek Ranch out 109 and Zimmerscheidt roads for a day-long board retreat and training.

BELLVILLE - During the early morning hours of Feb. 3, deputies with the Austin County Sheriff's Office (ACSO) responded to the report of a disturbance in the 2000 block of Witte Road in Bellville. The caller advised ACSO dispatch that a male subject was armed and discharging a firearm inside the home.

My husband, Peter, and I landed in Mexico again, and we did what we have done in the past. We bought an enormous cake. It's nice to have a cake in the house. I have discovered it is not necessarily a good idea to eat cake every day, as it eventually makes my clothes too small. But I do like cake, and I especially like Mexican cake, and more than anything, I like giving cake away.

EAGE LAKE – Members of the Austin County Regional Special Response Team and the Texas Department of Public Safety Special Response Team executed arrest and search warrants on two residences located in the 200 block of Allen Street and 500 block of East Union Street in Eagle Lake on Feb. 1 at approximately 5 a.m.

In April of 1963, Martin Luther King, Jr. was arrested and jailed in Birmingham, Alabama. Alone for several days in the dull “monotony of a narrow jail cell,” as he described it, King penned a letter that has been described as one of the most important historical documents ever written. Considered a classic treatise on civil disobedience, it is perhaps one of the most beautifully crafted and eloquent letters ever composed. Every American should read it.

FAYETTE COUNTY - In the Feb. 1 edition of The Banner Press, Fayette County Constable, Precinct 2, 3 and 4 positions were inadvertently left off.