Next week marks the return of the Texas 4-H Roundup to Texas A&M University. The roundup involves 4,000 youth and adults in the organization’s premiere leadership event. After 64 years in Aggieland, the event moved to Lubbock last year. Roundup coordinator Kyle Merten says the year away resulted in creating community partnerships and changing “the [...]
For the second straight year, employees of the A&M system will see their health insurance premiums go down. Chancellor John Sharp says there will be a 16 percent decrease in the average premium starting September 1. Sharp says the reduction was the result of providers submiting new bids, additional state funding, and a $5 million [...]
News release courtesy of Texas A&M University: Prospects for robust economic growth in America will be hampered as long as the relative attractiveness of work declines, conclude two Texas A&M University economists in a new article titled “Where Have All The Workers Gone?” While noting the country is recovering from the recession that began in [...]
The Leadership Brazos Alumni Association brought in the Commandant of the Corps of Cadets to speak to a Chamber of Commerce membership luncheon Thursday. Among the things said by retired Brigadier General Joe Ramirez, who returned to A&M after 31 years in the Army, is that “a positive attitude is a combat multiplier”. Ramirez, A&M Class [...]
The new executive director of the Downtown Bryan Association is retired Bryan school district communications director Sandy Farris. This update includes reminders about First Friday, a memorial service Saturday morning honoring movie theater owner Bill Schulman, who passed away recently, and the second annual Bryan blues festival taking place the next weekend (June 14-15). WTAW’s [...]
The College Station school district (CSISD) is among 100 districts chosen to test new computer software to report academic and financial information to the Texas Education Agency (TEA). CSISD director of data services Jackie Janacek says the test will be done in a few buildings involving selected teachers and administrators. If the software performs as [...]
What began as an internal investigation of pornographic pictures bring brought into the Brazos County Jail has led to an employee being fired and arrested. 36 year old Laketh McKinney Sr. of Bryan is out of jail on bond after he was charged with violating the civil rights of an inmate by sexual contact. Sheriff [...]
A College Station man is accused of stealing almost $5,000 from his grandmother last month. Christian Whiffen, 20, was arrested after his grandmother reported to police that she had found $4,800 of unauthorized withdrawals from her debit card on her bank statement. She had given Whiffen the card to buy groceries for the house after [...]
A College Station man has been arrested for online sexual solicitation of a minor. Officer Kelley McKethan with the Bryan Police Department says after responding normally to an ad placed by a thirteen-year-old girl online, Zachary Brown, 33, sent sexual texts and an explicit video to her. McKethan says the girl immediately notified her parents, [...]
4:25 p.m. update College Station Utilities reports all power has been restored and what caused the outage remains under investigation. The outage was in an area generally bordered by George Bush, Harvey Mitchell, the freeway, and Marion Pugh. 4:15 p.m. update from the City of College Station: Working with BTU, College Station Utilities (CSU) has [...]
