Two Bryan Broadcasting stations are among 50 nominees for the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) annual award for service to our communities.
WTAW and Candy 95 were among 10,000 stations that submitted entries for the Crystal Award.
The NAB will announce ten winners April 26th during the NAB Show in Las Vegas.
WTAW is a finalist for the eighth time in the last 13 years, and Candy is a three time winner.
WTAW’s Chelsea Reber visits with Peggi Ondrasek, CEO and President of United Way of the Brazos Valley, and Roy Harrington from The Texas Ramp Project. Listen to “United Way of the Brazos Valley update with partner agency Texas Ramp Project” on Spreaker.
Bryan ISD school board members learn that contracts for building projects and purchases approved by voters in 2020 have come in more than $2 million dollars under budget. Assistant superintendent Kevin Beesaw says renovating the Stephen F. Austin annex came in $2.5 million under budget and the new Sadberry intermediate school, when phase two is completed, is projected to be a little over $1 million under budget. Phase two construction that is underway at Sadberry involves more parking and a play area among other things. Board president Julie Harlin noted the mound of soil that had been next to Sadberry was used to fill the area where the district’s transportation building was demolished. Harlin and Beesaw pointed out the cost savings by recycling the soil instead of purchasing fill dirt for the demolition site. Beesaw says at the new Haliburton auxiliary complex, BISD’s warehouse and food service departments will join transportation and the district’s maintenance and operations departments by the end of the calendar year. Click below to hear some of the comments from the October 7, 2024 Bryan ISD school board meeting.
College Station police arrest a mother and her boyfriend on felony charges of injuring the mother’s child. This is after a custodian at a College Station ISD elementary school reports seeing a student with bruises and numerous other markings. That led to an investigation by school administrators, child and protective services, and three CSPD detectives. The mother told a detective according to the CSPD arrest report that she was laughing while saying the child “gets whooping’s with the belt”. The arrest reports say the child was struck by a stun gun, a leather belt, an extension cord, and wooden yard sticks. Those items were found during a search of the family’s apartment. The child had injuries and scars on their legs, back, stomach, and buttocks. The arrest reports do not say who has custody of the student. The mother, 36 year old Chantel Turner, and her boyfriend, 31 year old Andrea Bell, remain in jail as of October 14 in lieu of bonds of $75,000 dollars each.
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