Jury selection was completed Monday in the trial of the second of three Bryan men accused in a shooting death over a dispute about selling marijuana.
This week’s trial involves 22 year old Christopher Hernandez, while the third defendant, 20 year old Travis Carroll, is scheduled to go to trial in July.
23 year old Clayton Thompson, who fired the gun through an apartment door that killed Billy Menard, Jr. in October 2011, is serving a 45 year prison term following a plea agreement last November.
The Bryan/College Station Salvation Army officially launches its “Building Hope” campaign. The $9.1 million dollar effort is to transform the local Salvation Army campus in Bryan into a “Center of Hope”. The campaign will fund among other things, an administration and family service center, transitional housing, a youth service center, and a “client choice” food pantry. Click HERE to be directed to the buildinghopebcs.org capital campaign website for more information and to make a contribution.
A reminder that Saturday (May 4) is election day for many Brazos County residents. Elections administrator Trudy Hancock says there were 3,193 early voters. That is less than four percent of 86,506 who are eligible to vote. There are six voting centers for those voting in the College Station and Navasota ISD bond elections and/or the emergency services district two (ESD 2) request to increase the property tax rate to build a new fire station. Click HERE to be directed to the College Station ISD bond website. Click HERE to be directed to the Navasota ISD bond website. Click HERE to read and download information about the Brazos County ESD 2 property tax rate increase proposal. Those voting centers are the CSISD administration building, the College Station Utilities building on Graham Road, Wellborn Baptist Church, Arena Hall in Bryan, the Bryan Church of the Nazarene across from the main post office, and the elections office across from the courthouse. The only voting location for those wanting to select three members to the board of the Wellborn special utility district (SUD) is the water district office. Click HERE to be directed to the Wellborn SUD website for more information. Saturday’s voting hours at all locations are from seven until seven. Those who are interested in runoff elections from the March primary, that will be held the Tuesday after Memorial Day. Click HERE for more information from the Brazos County elections office.
U.S. senator John Cornyn says he is “intrigued” about a proposed project on the Texas A&M system’s RELLIS campus. Cornyn told Texas reporters Thursday (May 2) about a team from A&M proposing to the Commerce Department, a computer chip facility that includes research and development and production of semiconductors. Cornyn says Congress has delegated to the Commerce Department, the authority to consider the proposal under recent federal legislation giving subsidies to increase the domestic production of computer chips. Cornyn said he learned more about the project during a meeting this week with A&M system chancellor John Sharp. Click below to hear comments from John Cornyn, visiting with WTAW’s Bill Oliver on May 2nd, 2024:
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