…2005: A petition to overturn the county’s dry status failed by one signature when alcoholic Randy Laiton refused to sign the petition because the petition was a public document and his mother might see it.

…1987: The Armadillos cross country team brings a state championship to LaCucaracha.  Head football Coach Bryant exclaims to then Superintendent Grisham, “We have a cross country team?”

…1904: The seventeen year old Krause brothers finish building seven miles of rock fence that surrounds their family property and in appreciation and celebration their father allows them to skip one chore the following day.  They could choose from: building the morning fire at 4 a.m., sweeping the house twice daily, milking cows, straining milk from said cows, driving cattle to pasture, leading horse to water and then back to field, feeding hogs, feeding chickens, checking hen house, hoeing garden, churning butter, mending holes in roof, shoeing horses or repairing wagon axle and wheel.