As its plans for a new live theatre complex here in Navasota continue, the Navasota Theatre Alliance is fixing up its old venue, thanks to a ten thousand dollar gift from its neighbor, Union Pacific. And as this is the second year in a row it’s … [Read more...]

The City of Navasota is getting ready to celebrate its 150th birthday. And during the latest City Council meeting Assistant City Manager Shawn Myatt told council, staff settled on October 22nd for the annual celebration and already has some events … [Read more...]

There’s big news in the fight against the controversial bullet train last week.  Texas Central Rail may have just lost its right to take land by imminent domain after the Surface Transportation Board decided it isn’t a federal project. Grimes … [Read more...]

Fresh produce just got a little easier to both buy and to sell in Navasota after City Council passed a resolution, in this months first Council session, allowing agricultural producers to market their goods outside of specified farmers markets dates … [Read more...]

The County of Grimes is officially under a Burning Ban as of last Tuesday’s Commissioners Court Session. Emergency Management Coordinator David Lilly told the Court three other counties in the Brazos Valley have already instituted bans, and our … [Read more...]

The head of the Navasota Independent School District is leaving Rattler Nation for Nolan Ryan’s hometown. Superintendent Rory Gesch made that announcement last Thursday after receiving word of the Alvin ISD School Board’s approval of him to be … [Read more...]

Last Thursday was declared summer learning day here in Navasota, but not until Mayor Bert Miller read a proclamation at a special City Council session last Friday, honoring the Navasota Library among others. And it’s still not too late to get some … [Read more...]

Not a single voice opposed making Grimes County into a super Voting Center among a little more than a dozen residents at last week’s public hearing on the matter, at least after Precinct three Commissioner Barbara Walker clarified one important point … [Read more...]

A Grimes County Grand Jury indicted a young Houston man recently for the first degree murder of a Conroe man here in Grimes earlier this year. District Attorney Tuck McLain says 19-year-old Tyrus Jamond Peters is currently residing in the Grimes … [Read more...]

Scores of Grimes residents and families gathered at Navasota Junior High School recently to tell TxDoT what they think of its proposed 249 toll road. Among the plentiful opposition were three generations of one old Grimes family.  And family … [Read more...]

Concerns about Entergy’s proposed Cross-Grimes transmission line recently brought land-owners and others to the Anderson Town Building, to discuss the project with company officials. Entergy’s Ronnie Hale says power lines are like roads in that … [Read more...]

Two things were quite unusual during last week’s regular session of Grimes County Commissioners Court.  First, two citizens voiced support for the same agenda action; and then even more unusual, the court unanimously approved it. Following an … [Read more...]

Independence Day is coming up Monday, and the city of Navasota is busily getting ready for the 240th celebration of our Nation’s birth. The Assistant City Manager Shawn Myatt says the City’s Annual Independence Daze party will start off, or more … [Read more...]

A 44-year-old Navasota resident bonded out of the Grimes County Jail Wednesday June 22nd where she had been residing since her arrest Friday June 17th on an enhanced charge of theft, due to the fact the Christian Community Services Center is a … [Read more...]

Due to concerns about high arsenic levels that came to light at the Pack Unit just outside Navasota, a U.S. District Judge recently ruled that it has to find new sources of water in less than two weeks.  But the Texas Department of Criminal Justice … [Read more...]