WTAW - Interviews

WTAW - Interviews

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  • Bryan city council starts two-hour parking in part of the downtown area
    This podcast contains comments from the June 9, 2026 Bryan city council meeting.

    Prime parking spaces in downtown Bryan will now have a two hour time limit weekdays between eight and five.

    The Bryan city council on Tuesday (June 9) unanimously approved a two hour limit along Main Street between 23rd and 26th.This impacts 226 out of 2,500 parking spaces.

    The six month pilot program will use technology that includes license plate reading cameras to enforce and ticket violators.

    There will be no towing.

    The maximum fine for a first violation is $35 dollars and after that the fine would range from $35 to $500 dollars.

    The council's vote follows three years of research, public input, and the work of a committee led by former mayor and now city manager Andrew Nelson.

    Click HERE to read and download the ordinance that was approved at the June 9, 2026 Bryan city council meeting.

    Click HERE to read and download presentation materials shown at the June 9, 2026 Bryan city council meeting.
    14 min
  • Bryan ISD school board sells property and has another private discussion about correcting unidentified security issues
    This podcast contains comments from the June 1, 2026 Bryan ISD school board meeting.

    For the second time in three months, Bryan ISD school board members discuss behind closed doors safety and security issues. 

    On June 1, as what happened on March 23rd, there were no public statements about corrective action plans related to intruder detection inspections.

    The June 1st executive session was one of two held by the BISD board. 

    After the second private discussion, board president Joel Bryan introduced what turned out to be a unanimous motion to sell a BISD building on Highway 21 just east of Texas Avenue at Calhoun Street.

    The owner of neighboring commercial property is buying the BISD building and land for $375,000 dollars.
    1 min
  • Bryan police and fire investigating the deaths of two people inside a duplex that had fire damage
    This podcast is a visit with Bryan police officer Seth Waller and WTAW's Bill Oliver.

    Bryan police and fire investigators are looking into the deaths of two people inside a duplex that had fire damage.

    BPD officer Seth Waller says Monday (June 8) around 4:40 p.m., a 9-1-1 call was received from family members who did a welfare check at a residence in the 2700 block of Osborn.

    This is in a 55+ neighborhood west of the freeway and north of William Joel Bryan Parkway.

    First responders who found the victims reported there was no active fire.

    More information is expected to be released on Tuesday.
    3 min
  • City Of College Station begins a study on redeveloping the Harvey Road corridor
    This podcast contains comments from the May 28, 2026 College Station city council meeting.

    The College Station city council hears that it will take a year for city staff and a consultant that will be hired to study the future development along and near Harvey Road between Texas and the freeway.

    Heather Wade of the city's planning and development office says 5,500 people live in and near the area, the volume of traffic on Texas Avenue approaches 50,000 vehicles a day, and Harvey Road generates at least 20,000 vehicles a day.

    Wade says residents, businesspeople, and other stakeholders are invited to participate.

    The study will explore four sub-areas...which are Post Oak Mall, additional commercial west of the mall, mostly apartment complexes on the north side of Harvey Road, and more commercial along Texas between Harvey and George Bush.

    Click HERE to read and download presentation materials from the May 28, 2026 College Station city council meeting.
    17 min
  • Ben Downs on Scott's Last Show
    It's been a working relationship that spanned more than half a century. Ben Downs joins the show to reflect on Scott's extraordinary career.
    17 min

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