For the first time in seven years, Accountability Ratings from the Texas Education Agency show all four school districts in the County of Grimes have met agency standards. Spokesman Lauren Callahan sorts out what the Index One through Four Targets … [Read more...]

It’s official. The Navasota School District will hold a two-proposition bond election this fall.  Proposition A authorizes issuing $55,000,000 in bonds to renovate district facilities.  Proposition B generates another $6,000,000 over the next nine … [Read more...]

Grimes County Commissioners held a special meeting to adopt next year’s county budget, which turned out to be significantly longer than had been anticipated.  The meeting that is, not the budget. Several last minute changes had been brought up at … [Read more...]

There’s a new exhibit telling the story of horse-drawn vehicles at the Brazos Valley Museum of Natural History. Executive Director Dr. Deborah Cowman says it centers around a unique, hand-made miniature set of nearly two dozen horse-drawn vehicles … [Read more...]

It’s official. The Navasota School District will hold a two-proposition bond election this fall.  Proposition A authorizes issuing $55,000,o00 in bonds to renovate district facilities.  Proposition B generates another $6,000,000 over the next nine … [Read more...]

Navasota property owners will be paying the same tax rate next year, if the city has its way. City Finance Director Lance Hall told City Council the city proposing maintaining the same property tax rate as last year of .5542 per $100 of assessed … [Read more...]

A 55-year-old Navasota man has been sentenced to 35 years in prison, after pleading guilty to fleeing the scene of a 2014 traffic crash in Bryan he caused while he was intoxicated. According to the victim, Assistant Brazos County District Attorney … [Read more...]

For the second time in three months, a 46-year-old Bedias man has been arrested and charged with misusing a firearm. Brandt Lee Jamail’s most recent visit to the Grimes County Jail, according to Sheriff's Investigator Kindale Pittman, was after … [Read more...]

Grimes County’s total taxable value has grown to nearly two and a half billion dollars, but the county’s chief appraiser told county commissioners, next year’s effective tax rate is still going up. Overall, Mark Boehnke reported to the court that … [Read more...]

Around two dozen local residents were concerned enough about the shortage of volunteers for the many Grimes County kids currently in foster care to come Coffee with CASA recently. Voices for Children’s Executive Director Anjuli Reynold says about … [Read more...]

A 27-year-old Shiro Man has confessed to killing a 26-year-old Navasota man in Shiro August 6th. Grimes County Sheriff’s Investigator Kindale Pittman says a call came in around 6:30 Sunday evening that someone had just been shot and was laying in … [Read more...]

The excitement continues to build in Northern Grimes as the first medical clinic there in anyone’s memory is just weeks away from opening. And although the doors of the BIS Community Clinic are set to open around Labor Day, Family Nurse … [Read more...]

Not only will the City of Navasota continue its support of the Grimes Health Resource Center next year, following a presentation for city council, Navasota’s support for the GHRC, just like the services it provides the city’s residents, is on the … [Read more...]

It's just a matter of days now til all Grimes County kids grudgingly head back to school for the fall semester. And no matter how good their teachers are, none of them will be able to do their best unless they have all the supplies they need.  That’s … [Read more...]

Before too long there’ll be a new way to listen to Navasota News in Navasota. Though there is more paperwork to deal with, in addition to 1550 AM and navasotanews.com, you’ll soon have an FM option as well. Bryan Broadcasting General Manager Ben … [Read more...]