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Known as possibly the earliest built home in Grimes County, the Fahey house is behind the locked gates of the Bovay Scout Ranch. It’s located a short way south of Navasota east of Highway 6, but Fahey didn’t build it. The two–room log cabin was built by the Muldrow family in 1836 and became the Fahey home in 1882. Today, other than Boy Scouts and families who camp at the Bovay Scout Ranch, the public to date is unaware of it.
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If you’re wondering what spawned the idea for this column, look no further than our Queen of Willy Julie Peters, my nearby-neighbor Marsha Wellman-Murrell and Facebook!
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A bill to implement school vouchers in Texas sailed through the Senate largely on party lines last week and now awaits consideration in the House, the Austin American-Statesman reported. House Speaker Dustin Burrows, R-Lubbock, said he believes there are enough votes in that chamber to pass the legislation, which was defeated a half-dozen times in 2023 by a coalition of Democratic and rural Republican members.
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The Stafford Opera House has reigned over nearby Columbus since the mid–1880s though tarnished now and then and often neglected by multiple owners.
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Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick has released his top 25 legislative priorities as the legislative session gets underway, The Texas Tribune reported.
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Are you a used food collector? If so, you are not alone. Growing up, we were expected not to waste food and there’s nothing wrong with that. It’s the leftovers that keep getting left over and sometimes for a great deal of time that come into question. Questions like, “How long has this been in here?” and “What the heck is this?” often come up but are rarely answered completely.
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I had a different article I was going to write about this week but considering the circumstances of the recent loss of one of our hometown heroes, Navasota Police Department Sgt. Mark Butler, I chose to write about something more appropriate and will come back to that one another day.
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One week ago, the City of Navasota, the Navasota Police Department and our community lost one of our bravest and best. There is a hole in our hearts that cannot be repaired. There is no fixing this. We can’t go back in time to change things. But yet, the heartbreak is ever so palpable, it weighs on us like a dark cloud of heavy sadness, thick as a brick. We grieve the loss as if it was one of our own family members.
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