Published by News Staff on Fri, 02/28/2020 - 12:00am
Incumbent John Eilert withdrew last week from the La Grange City Council election for Ward 4. This leaves his challenger, Quenten Gonzales, unopposed.
Published by News Staff on Fri, 02/28/2020 - 12:00am
Above, parishioner Greg Northrup and Rector Eric Hungerford of St. James Episcopal Church provided drive-through ashes to go on Ash Wednesday, Feb. 26. Hungerford said one of the church’s congregants came up with the drive-through idea last year. This year, about 27 motorists received ashes in the St. James drivethrough. “Ash Wednesday is the beginning of the 40 day journey in Lent,” Hungerford said. “It’s a time to reflect on our shortcomings and mortality, and a time to reflect on God’s love despite all those things. We apply the ashes to the forehead and say, ‘Remember that you are from dust and to dust you shall return.’ Its a reminder of life and our frailty. Although we are small, frail and mortal, but together we are much larger than ourselves.
Published by News Staff on Tue, 02/25/2020 - 12:00am
Fayette County was organized on January 18, 1838 with La Grange as the county seat. Both were named in honor of the French nobleman, the Marquis de Lafayette. We honor him as a hero of the American Revolution, but do you know about Lafayette’s important work expanding and enhancing human rights for the oppressed?
Published by News Staff on Tue, 02/25/2020 - 12:00am
Fayette County’s K-9 Narcotics Unit seized a karaoke machine last Wednesday that had more than just bad music inside.
Published by News Staff on Tue, 02/25/2020 - 12:00am
White Box is back. Proprietor Michael Simms took over the former Gold ‘n Crisp fried chicken stand last month after it shut down at the end of last year.
Published by News Staff on Fri, 02/21/2020 - 12:00am
The filing deadline for a place on the May 2 municipal elections ballot was Friday, Feb. 14. Contested elections will take place in every city in Fayette County except Carmine this year.
Published by News Staff on Fri, 02/21/2020 - 12:00am
The mother of a La Grange teen who died from suicide after battling depression wants the school district to help prevent another tragedy like the one she experienced from happening.
Published by News Staff on Fri, 02/21/2020 - 12:00am
The La Grange school board heard an update on the progress of construction at La Grange Elementary School at their meeting Monday, Feb. 17. Project manager Tony Niel
Published by News Staff on Fri, 02/21/2020 - 12:00am
The next phase of celebrating the new LGISD school bond improvements began Tuesday as students from pre-K through 6th grade got to use the new cafeteria for the first time. Going through the dual lunch lines first were pre-kindergarteners Carina Hernandez Osornio (above, right) and Benjamin Garlick (above, left). Middle, left, students begin to sit and eat in the seating area of the massive new cafeteria. Nancy Fritsch-Tielsch, director of the cafeteria said, “I can’t tell you how excited I am.” Fritsch-Tielsch cited both expanded room and new equipment as some of the best things about the new cafeteria. She is shown, below, right with her cafeteria staff. On the menu for the first lunch in the new cafeteria was fried chicken, mashed potatoes and gravy, broccoli with cheese, biscuits and peach fruit cups. Photos by Jeff Wick
Published by News Staff on Fri, 02/21/2020 - 12:00am
A team of young men from ALERT Academy in Big Sandy began framing the first two houses in the Hope Hill development on Horton Street this week.
