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Announcements from the May meeting of the Texas A&M system board of regents from chancellor John Sharp included the legislature giving the Corps of Cadets to assist in the purchase of uniforms. Sharp, who was [Read More...]

Construction is scheduled to start this month on Texas A&M’s west campus to improve Penberthy Road. Approval was given at the May 29th board of regents meeting to the $5.8 million dollar project as presented [Read More...]

The last meeting of the College Station city council includes an update on the activities of the city’s bicycle, pedestrian, and greenways committee. Scott Shafer, who is the council’s representative to the committee, said one [Read More...]

A joint meeting this month (May 20) of the Bryan city council and the Bryan Business Council (BBC) included activity at Coulter Field Airport. Business council member Kenny Lawson says the crown jewel at the [Read More...]

College Station ISD school board members held a special meeting Tuesday (May 27) in part to hire a new principal. Southwood Valley elementary assistant principal Dawn Newton was selected to be the new principal at [Read More...]

The governor’s office and the Bryan ISD school board continues negotiations over possible tax breaks to bring a semiconductor manufacturing and research facility to the RELLIS campus. During the May 19, 2025 Bryan ISD board [Read More...]

Bryan’s Midtown Park was brought up twice at the May city council meeting. City manager Kean Register said a month after terminating a design contract for a signature playground, they have another option. The city [Read More...]

Memorial Day weekend was the targeted completion of replacing and converting overhead electric lines at 22 locations around College Station. That was the timeline when the College Station city council at its April 24th meeting, [Read More...]

The end of Monday night’s Bryan ISD school board meeting (May 19) was unanimous votes to hire two principals. The new principal at Stephen F. Austin middle school is an associate principal at Davila middle [Read More...]

Up to 12 inches of rain during the first week of May tested the capacity of retention and detention ponds. That was a subject that was discussed by the College Station city council the week [Read More...]

A pioneer broadcaster in Bryan/College Station and former Bryan councilman Greg Rodriguez has died. That was announced by current Bryan councilman James Edge during Thursday’s (May 15) visit on WTAW’s The Infomaniacs. Click below to [Read More...]

The College Station council approved its second budget amendment of the 2025 fiscal year at last Thursday’s meeting (May 8) as recommended by fiscal services director Mary Ellen Leonard. One of the amendments affects the [Read More...]

Monday afternoon (May 12) was a four minute special meeting of the Texas A&M system board of regents. Chairman Bob Albritton of Fort Worth and vice chairman Jay Graham of Houston made the trip to [Read More...]

More concerts could be coming to College Station. City councilman Bob Yancy suggested at the city council at their last meeting (May 8) about partnering with the newly created Brazos Valley Live Music Association. In [Read More...]

The 78th time a College Station city council meeting includes the Midtown district behind Baylor Scott and White hospital, the governing body is asked to participate in a multimillion dollar commercial project. Midtown developer James [Read More...]

Brazos County commissioners on a three to two vote, approve making a second attempt to hire an outside consultant to review employee pay and job descriptions. Fred Brown, who questioned why the study could not [Read More...]

Bryan’s mayor says responsibility for the construction delay on William Joel Bryan Parkway rests with Optimum communications. Bobby Gutierrez told listeners on WTAW’s The Infomaniacs that Optimum has not moved overhead lines attached to BTU [Read More...]

Brazos County judge Duane Peters brought up at the end of Tuesday’s meeting (May 6), what he called “false accusations” from opponents of the future highway to the east of College Station and Bryan. Peters [Read More...]

The end of Monday’s (May 5) Bryan ISD school board meeting was spent approving two personnel changes as recommended by the superintendent. There were no comments before or after naming a new elementary school principal [Read More...]

Brazos County commissioners at their last meeting (April 29) decided against spending $500,000 dollars on a contract for consulting services. The decision to not pursue what the agenda item described as an Americans With Disabilities [Read More...]