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Fayette Community Foundation unveils Rural Community Health Fund grant: Revolutionizing community healthcare

Fayette Community Foundation unveils Rural Community Health Fund grant: Revolutionizing community healthcare

Fayette Community Foundation (FCF) is proud to announce the launch of the Rural Community Health Fund (RCHF), a groundbreaking initiative aimed at health and wellness and the delivery of philanthropic funds on a grassroots level. 02/28/2024 23:00

Sealy Small Farm and Vegetable Conference

Sealy Small Farm and Vegetable Conference

SEALY - Spring is in the air in February. Gardeners are itching to scratch in some dirt and plant a garden, but that may not be the best idea as of now. Warm weather in February doesn't mean planting season is in full bloom. 02/28/2024 23:00

Best Little Quilt Show posts winners

Best Little Quilt Show posts winners

LA GRANGE - CVQG's 'Best Little Quilt Show' in Texas Award win - ners were announced on Feb 23 at the KC Hall in La Grange. Over 600 people came to enjoy the beauty of our Guild's quilts. 02/28/2024 23:00

Columbus Garden Club selects a Garden Angel

Columbus Garden Club selects a Garden Angel

COLUMBUS - Brenda Boehm has been chosen as the Garden Angel for Columbus Garden Club 2023-24. Boehm has been in the garden club for 11 years. She routinely helps set up the club's meeting rooms, assists elderly members, plants pots and waters around the Colorado County Courthouse square in Columbus, and helps decorate down town for the Fall season as well as dec- orate the Colorado County Fairgrounds entrance for the Colorado County Fair. She has chaired the club's bake sale many times, the Scholarship Wagon, the Brookwood Volunteer Program, the E-Cycle program, and worked the Trash Off Event. 02/28/2024 23:00

Columbus Education Foundation awards another Classroom Grant

Columbus Education Foundation awards another Classroom Grant

COLUMBUS - Amanda Opperman, the sixth and eighth teacher at Columbus Junior High recently received a grant to take her students on a field trip to the NASA Space Center Houston. The Columbus Education Foundation (CEF) grant will cover the cost of the trip which is not in the budget allotted to her. Opperman was elated to get such a grant. "I'm so excited to receive the CEF grant! I have always wanted to take my students on a field trip to Space Cen - ter Houston! The students are going to have an opportunity to experience and discover really cool science, math, tech - 02/28/2024 23:00

Elections Building named in honor of Francis John Truchard

Elections Building named in honor of Francis John Truchard

COLUMBUS - The Colorado Coun - ty Commissioner's Court met for the regular open meeting on Monday, Feb 12. 02/28/2024 23:00

Columbus Volunteer Fire Department holds Oyster and Fish Fry

Columbus Volunteer Fire Department holds Oyster and Fish Fry

COLUMBUS – Tower 14 extended its ladder high into the air with the Unit- ed States flag proudly waving in the gen tle breeze to signal the site of CVFD’s annual Oyster and Fish Fry on Feb. 25 at the Columbus Hall in Columbus. 02/28/2024 23:00

Tannich-Brovec Family to hold 56th annual reunion

Tannich-Brovec Family to hold 56th annual reunion

WEIMAR – The Tannich- Brovec 56th family reunion, including family names Nohavitza, Ulbrich, Voitle, Sebesta, Mueck, Urban, Anhaiser, Sekerka, Fojtik, Holloway, Kunschick, Koch, Klimple, Perkins, Shimek, York, Socha, Kubesch, Petersen, etc., will be held Sunday, March 3 beginning at 11 a.m. at the Knights of Columbus Hall off Farm-to-Market Road 155 at 1020 N. Center St. in Weimar. 02/28/2024 23:00

Women’s History Month celebration planned

Women’s History Month celebration planned

SCHULENBURG – The League of Women Voters of South Central Texas is hosting its second annual Women Making History event from 3 to 5 p.m. on Sunday, March 10 at Schulenburg's historic Senglemann Hall in Schulenburg. 02/28/2024 23:00

Agricultural producers have until March 15 to enroll in USDA’s key commodity safety net programs for the 2024 crop year

Agricultural producers have until March 15 to enroll in USDA’s key commodity safety net programs for the 2024 crop year

02/28/2024 23:00

District 190 regional K.C. free throw winners

District 190 regional K.C. free throw winners

HALLETTSVILLE – The Knights of Columbus Regional (Diocese of Victoria) Free Throw Championship from District 190 was held Feb. 18 at the Sacred Heart Gym in Hallettsville. 02/28/2024 23:00

Fugitive apprehended in Bellville

Fugitive apprehended in Bellville

BELLVILLE – Wanted fugitive Pablo Isila Euceda-Hernandez, 35, was arrested in Bellville on Feb. 20. The Austin County Special Response Team and the Bellville Police Department assisted the US Marshal Gulf Coast Violent Offenders Task Force with the operation and the arrest of Hernandez. 02/28/2024 23:00

LCRA limits outdoor watering until drought eases

LCRA limits outdoor watering until drought eases

Cities, utilities and others that purchase water from LCRA to be affected by new restriction 02/28/2024 23:00

Felon found with stolen handgun

Felon found with stolen handgun

CARMINE– Fayette County Deputy Seth Nagel conducted a traffic stop on a vehicle in Car - 02/21/2024 23:00

Daughters and Dates Sweetheart Dance bedazzled

Daughters and Dates Sweetheart Dance bedazzled

LA GRANGE –They pulled out all the stops for the girls of La Grange Elementary School on Jan 9, with a PTO-sponsored Daughters and Dates Sweetheart Dance. The girls were dressed in beautiful dresses and some with tiaras and pearls, but all with laughter and smiles on their dates’ armsmostly daddies. 02/21/2024 23:00

Casino Royale Night winner with a full house

Casino Royale Night winner with a full house

SEALY – As the betting chips were flying and the cards were being dealt, the crowd at the American Legion Hall in Sealy was in for some serious gambling at the 3rd Annual Casino Royal Night. Win, lose, or draw; it was for a worthy cause to benefit so many. The Sealy American Legion Post 442, Friends of Sealy American Legion, and Charitable Heroes Achieving Memorable Performances (C.H.A.M.P) charitable donations raise the stakes to $600,000. 02/21/2024 23:00

Small brewery wins big at 2024 Texas Craft Brewers Cup

Small brewery wins big at 2024 Texas Craft Brewers Cup

Hound Song Brewing Co recognized at the annual statewide professional beer competition in Texas 02/21/2024 23:00

Weimar officer presented lifesaving award

Weimar officer presented lifesaving award

WEIMAR - Officer Robin Allen responded to a residence to assist with a medical call of a male not breathing on Dec. 19, 2023. 02/21/2024 23:00

Over 60K of dirty money recovered

Over 60K of dirty money recovered

Fayette County Sheriff Keith Korenek reported on Feb. 14, around noon, Drug Interdiction Investigator David Smith con- ducted a traffic stop on I-10 west bound at the 661 mmile marker on a 2015 white Ford truck for traffic violations. 02/21/2024 23:00

Bluebonnet Master Gardener Annual Plant Sales set

Bluebonnet Master Gardener Annual Plant Sales set

SEALY – The Bluebonnet Master Gardener Association hosts its annual plant sale on Saturday, April 13, from 9 a.m. until 5 p.m. or until sold out. This year’s plant sale will be held at the Levine Park Pavilion at 406 Main St. in Sealy. 02/21/2024 23:00

McCullough EL Noon Lions guest speaker

McCullough EL Noon Lions guest speaker

McCullough EL Noon Lions guest speaker 02/21/2024 23:00