By ANDY BEHLEN Last week the Record downloaded data from the Fayette County Appraisal District webside on every parcel of real property in the county. Of the 26,115 parcels published online, 1,509 showed an assessment increase of 50 percent or more.
By ANDY BEHLEN Senator Lois Kolkhorst last week requested a public meeting from the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality over the permit application to dump sewage sludge from the City of Austin onto about 1,665 acres of land in Fayette County along the Colorado River.
Published by News Staff on Thu, 06/16/2016 - 10:31am
A small airplane made an emergency landing near Fayetteville Saturday afternoon, June 11. No one was injured. According to Sheriff Keith Korenek, the Sheriff’s Office received a 911 call at 12:38 p.m.
Published by News Staff on Mon, 06/13/2016 - 11:13am
By ANDY BEHLEN The Texas Quilt Museum is known for the mural that graces its west wall on Washington Street in La Grange. That mural got some unwanted company last week after a graffiti artist ‘tagged’ an unpainted portion of the brick wall to the north of the mural.
By ANDY BEHLEN Police arrested three Houston men following the shooting of a 31-year-old Honduran national Friday evening at the victim’s workplace, an egg farm on Old Smithville Road north of Flatonia. Lt.