Micah Turner, General Manger of the Phillips Event Center, visits with WTAW’s Scott DeLucia about reopening the event center, the restaurant, meeting rooms, the golf course, and more during his appearance on The Infomaniacs on Thursday, February 6, 2025.
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There are still unfinished projects in College Station ISD funded by voter approved bond issues in 2021 and 2023. At the April CSISD board meeting, approval was given to rankings recommended by facilities director Paul Buckner that will eventually lead to replacing mechanical, electrical, and plumbing equipment around the district. Buckner says there are six firms who are interested in among other things, adding LED lighting, replacing equipment used in heating and air conditioning systems, and adding equipment to control temperatures and the humidity in computer server rooms. Following the board’s unanimous vote, which followed no board comments, Buckner said another round of rankings will be done, then the board will take action to negotiate a contract. Click HERE to read and download a memo from CSISD facilities director Paul Buckner. Click HERE to read and download a memo from CSISD assistant superintendent Josh Symank. Click below to hear Paul Buckner’s comments at the April 21, 2026 College Station ISD school board meeting. Listen to “College Station ISD school board takes the next step towards mechanical, electrical, & plumbing improvements at district buildings” on Spreaker.
A Bryan woman is arrested for DWI after driving over the foot of the manager of a fast food restaurant who was working the drive thru lane Sunday (April 26) at one in the morning. The Bryan police arrest report refers to another driver in the drive thru who heard a thump and turned around to see the manager lying on the ground. The driver told an officer she didn’t know she struck anyone. 50 year old Bethel Nicola, who was also charged with assault causing bodily injury and a warrant from Uvalde County where she is awaiting trial for aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, remains in jail as of April 28th in lieu of bonds totaling $34,000 dollars. A College Station home was struck Sunday night (April 26) by a Jeep that left the scene. College Station police used a license plate that was left behind to find the Jeep less than a half mile from the damaged home on Appomattox Drive. 23 year old Cristian Zavala of College Station was arrested for leaving the scene and DWI where the arrest report says a court order was required to get a blood sample after the driver refused to give a voluntary sample. The arrest report says the Jeep struck the home with enough force that there were chunks of white stone in the front bumper of the vehicle. And enough of the home’s masonry and plywood sheathing was removed that the insulation of the home could be seen. Zavala is out of jail after posting bonds totaling $7,000 dollars. Bryan police respond to a four vehicle crash Friday night (April 24) involving a wrong way driver whose breath alcohol tests showed he was more than twice the legal limit. The BPD arrest report does not report anyone was hurt from what happened on Harvey Mitchell Parkway near Highway 21. 56 year old Juan Martinez Servin of Bryan was arrested for DWI after failing field sobriety tests. Results of his breath alcohol samples were .176 and .182. Servin was released from jail after posting a $4,000 dollar bond. Two Texas A&M police officers see in the Northgate district after the bars closed early Saturday morning (April 25), a car weaving on University nearly jumping the curb and almost striking three pedestrians. The driver, 21 year old Jedidiah Udunna of College Station, was arrested for DWI after failing field sobriety tests. Udunna is out of jail after posting a $3,000 dollar bond. A Bryan police officer sees after the bars closed early Saturday morning (April 25), a pickup doing burnouts in a parking lot and spinning tires leaving the parking lot and fishtailing onto Wellborn Road. The driver, 35 year old Juan Miguel Tirado of Bryan, was arrested after failing field sobriety tests for DWI with two prior convictions. After refusing to voluntarily providing a blood sample, a court order was obtained. Tirado, who was booked in the Brazos County jail for the 27th time since May of 2008, was released after posting a $20,000 dollar bond. A College Station man who drove to the College Station police department headquarters at four in the morning on Saturday (April 25) to check on a friend who had been arrested winds up in jail. The CSPD arrest report says dispatchers reported the man appeared to be intoxicated. An officer who responded said the man failed field sobriety tests was arrested for DWI. Then the officer had to get a court order to get a blood sample after 21 year old Maximiliano Moreno refused a voluntary sample. Moreno is out of jail after posting a $3,000 dollar bond.
Before the Texas A&M system board of regents holds its round of business meetings, members were in College Station for committee meetings. On April 16th, the regents facilities committee reviewed 16 projects where action could be taken at their second quarter business meeting in Kingsville that starts May 20th. Among those affecting the flagship campus, are restoring the exterior of the academic building, replacing turf at the Penberthy fields on west campus, building a virtual production stage facility next to the university’s research park, and expand one of the campus utility plants. Other proposed projects in Brazos County are a hangar project for the Bush Combat Development Complex at the RELLIS campus and at Easterwood Airport a new operating agreement and lease of the terminal building. Click HERE to read and download the agenda of the April 16, 2026 meeting of the board of regents facilities committee. The facilities committee also received an update to the A&M system’s proposed five year capital plan. The list includes more than 544 million dollars of projects on the flagship campus. Click HERE to read and download presentation materials from the April 16, 2026 meeting of the board of regents facilities committee. On the five year list, is $220 million dollars for an engineering education and research complex, $135 million for a west campus vivarium…where live animals and plants are kept under conditions simulating their natural environment, $100 million for a variety of infrastructure improvements, $65 million for an entrepreneurship building, and $24.5 million to renovate the Evans Library second and sixth floors.
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