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'Stressful and frustrating' | Fayette County leaders and businesses say fiber lines are getting cut, affecting phone service
FAYETTE COUNTY, Texas — Leaders in Fayette County say fiber lines have been cut multiple times, impacting some peoples' phone service for hours at a time. Chief Deputy Randy Noviskie of the Fayette County Sheriff’s Office says they get thousands of 911 calls each month that they haven’t been able to directly take on several occasions.
Bypass Fight Heads to the Courthouse
Fayette County Commissioners Court heard from several citizens opposed to the US 77 Bypass project at their meeting last Thursday, July 11.Jacob Aswad, who owns property on Creamer Creek Rd., said the Texas Department of Transportation’s plan to build a bypass around the Bluff south of La Grange would Aswad said TxDOT’s plan was “poorly publicized.” Aswad said he did not know until recently about…
'It's better to be prepared': Minimal impacts from Beryl's storm in Fayette County
LA GRANGE, Texas — Even though Tropical Storm Beryl didn't bring much rain to Central Texas, Fayette County was under a tropical storm warning earlier Monday that’s since been canceled. Fayette EMA Director Angela Hahn said other than a few sprinkles of rain and gusts of wind, there...
There's a new library in town, a seed library
COLUMBUS - Local gardening enthusiasts have banded together to create a free community seed library for all residents of Austin, Colorado, Fayette, La vaca and Wharton counties. Be- ginner gardeners are encouraged to participate; the library is for every level of gardener. The Sprout to Share Free Seed Library will ...
22-Year-Old Man Drowns in Pool
A young man drowned in a pool at a private residence near Carmine on Sunday, July 7.Fayette County EMS got the call around 9:40 p.m. Assistant EMS Director Gary Daniels said an off-duty Fayette County paramedic, Bradley Wunderlich, arrived first at the scene. Wunderlich found the man at the bottom of the pool.Wunderlich dove in and pulled the man out, Daniels said. Wunderlich began CPR until the…
Tropical Storm Beryl tracker: Impact to Central Texas
AUSTIN, Texas - Tropical Storm Beryl is heading for the Texas coast. The storm is expected to strengthen and upgrade back to a Category 1 hurricane before it makes landfall overnight, but the track has shifted more to the east. The storm also appears to have sped up and is...
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