This week is both National Police Week and National Nursing Home Week in Navasota, thanks to Mayor Bert Miller’s dual proclamations during last week’s City Council session. Councilman Bernie Gessner, liason to Planning and Zoning, updated the … [Read more...]

Less than five percent of Grimes County voters took part in the May 6th Election, 92 of which overwhelmingly approved making Plantersville the county’s sixth incorporated city by a three-to-one margin. Here in Navasota, Amy Jarvis was given her … [Read more...]

Although the weather didn’t cooperate, event organizer Doris Sauls says everyone who turned out for the recent walk through Navasota’s soon-to-become Grace Park had a great time. Sauls said neighbors came out, as did members of City Council, and … [Read more...]

A family nurse practitioner who’s new to Northern Grimes told County Commissioners recently why she’s building a new community clinic in beautiful downtown Bedias. Dr. Elizabeth Ellis said the recent Brazos Valley Health Assessment from 2016 shows … [Read more...]

Tens of thousands of Americans marked President Trump’s 100th day in office by taking to the streets in People’s Climate Marches; a few of them right here in the County of Grimes. Calling her Todd Mission community "unique and diverse," Debi … [Read more...]

There’s yet another champion in the Navasota School District today. NISD Superintendent Dr. Stu Musick reports the Texas Elementary Principals and Supervisors Association has named Assistant Principal of the Year in Region Six.  A region, Musick … [Read more...]

A special workshop called by Grimes County Commissioners to look into accusations from a score of Todd Mission residents that a local shooting range has unfairly disrupted their otherwise peaceful country lives, has been cancelled. After living … [Read more...]

Following an earlier presentation by a firm wanting to bring a third nursing home to Grimes, county commissioners voted to request that the state allocate more Medicaid beds here. Though the two nursing homes already here are averaging less than … [Read more...]

Navasota residents now have new payment options and services they can take advantage of when paying their utility bill.  The city’s finance director told City Council it’s all thanks to a recent software upgrade by the provider of the city’s kiosk … [Read more...]

As early voting is taking place in the race to fill Positions Four & Five on the Navasota School Board, we learn that there are other big changes coming up at the NISD as well. NISD Superintendent Dr. Stu Musick reports Dr. Denise Morgan, the … [Read more...]

Navasota Nursing and Rehab recently surprised one of their senior nurses aides on her nearly half a century of service to the facility. Administrator Melanie May says Narnel McNiel has been employed by Navasota Nursing and Rehab ever since it … [Read more...]

It’s funny when the reason you choose to marry someone turns out to be the same reason you want to kill them.  That’s the basic story in the Navasota Theatre Alliance’s newest production, “Dial M for Murder.”  At least, Director Earlene Rainey hopes … [Read more...]

By every measure taken, it looks like Navasota’s first-ever Groovy Grapes Wine Walk last Saturday was a winner.  Even Mother Nature cooperated with weather the chamber director said couldn’t have been better. A total of 16 local merchants and 10 … [Read more...]

The body of a young Colorado man was discovered Friday Morning, April 14, on a train that had stopped at the local Texas Municipal Power Agency’s coal car unloading facility. Grimes County Sheriff’s Investigator Kindale Pittman reports the body … [Read more...]

In order to get local traffic back to normal as soon as possible, Grimes County Commissioners ok’d the emergency replacement of the bridge over County Road 215 at Geter Creek. County Road and Bridge Engineer Harry Walker told an emergency meeting … [Read more...]