Comments from College Station Mayor John Nichols and College Station Fire Department Chief Richard Mann.

Dr. Susan Ballabina, Chief of Staff for Texas A&M University's President, visits with WTAW's Chelsea Reber about the legal status of several international students, a quick-look assessment for the Corps of Cadets, Texas A&M 2040, Disaster Day, the Citizenship and Service Initiative, filling leadership role vacancies, and more during her appearance on The Infomaniacs.

This podcast contains comments from the April 21, 2025 Bryan ISD school board meeting.

The Bryan ISD education foundation has launched scholarship opportunities for some BISD educators to become certified teachers. 

Foundation director Sarah Braden told school board members at its last meeting (April 21) about the opportunity for paraprofessionals and district of innovation teachers to have their entire certification program fully funded.

Additionally, the BISD foundation will select two paras who will receive $20,000 dollars to cover tuition and fees to complete their undergraduate degrees in education.

Braden says these are the largest gifts ever made by the foundation.

This podcast contains comments from the April 22, 2025 Brazos County commission meeting.

Another step is taken towards the construction of Brazos County’s new office complex across Texas Avenue from the courthouse.

A $92,000 dollar contract to test soil was unanimously approved after commissioner Fred Brown questioned testing soil on the site of the former Bryan ISD administration building, which was originally a bank.

While Brown thought the soil could handle a new building to replace the former structure which was originally a bank and later the Bryan ISD administration building, Brazos County’s construction manager, Trevor Lansdown, said testing was required by those designing and building the complex.

Commissioners were also told completing the testing was time sensitive to the rest of the project.

Click HERE to read and download the contract that was approved at the April 22, 2025 Brazos County commission meeting.

Click HERE to read and download the agenda background information from the April 22, 2025 Brazos County commission meeting.

On this week's United Way of the Brazos Valley update, Maggie Gray is joined by John Paci from Catholic Charities of Central Texas.

This podcast is a visit with Sarah Reed, who is one of the participants in the Texas 150 Multiple Sclerosis fundraising bicycle ride that will finish at Kyle Field.

More than 70 teams of bicyclists will return to Kyle Field Sunday (April 27) to finish their annual fundraiser for Multiple Sclerosis (MS).

This year's fundraising goal for the 5,000 bicyclists who are participating is $10.75 million dollars.

College Station mayor John Nichols, who included the Texas MS 150 as part of a council proclamation for National Bike Month at Thursday night's meeting (April 24), said this is the world's largest fundraising cycling series and the largest MS fundraising event in the country.

WTAW News visited with Sarah Reed of Austin, who learned she has MS after competing on the Florida State track team. This will be her third Texas ride. She said the reaction she gets when arriving at Kyle Field "is the most exhilarating feeling I have ever experienced."

This podcast includes comments from the April 21, 2025 Bryan ISD school board meeting.

One component of a Bryan ISD committee studying whether to recommend a future bond issue, is the district's demographic information.

The first such report in six years was released during Monday's (April 21) BISD board meeting.

Kris Pool projected district wide, enrollment in the next ten years to be somewhere between 800 fewer students to 2,000 more students. BISD's current headcount is about 16,000.

Pool said two campuses are expected to exceed capacity in the decade. Bryan High could reach 102 percent and Houston elementary could reach 113 percent. Pool said other districts don't realign campus boundaries to adjust enrollment until headcount reaches 120 percent of a building's capacity.

Pool also said 15 percent of children who live in BISD attends school somewhere else. The current estimate of 2,500 does not include children who are home schooled.

Pool also reported during the last five years, BISD has lost 123 students. Gaining the most students during that time was College Station with 378.That's followed by Franklin with 219, Caldwell with 215, Snook with 123, and Navasota with 100.

Demographer Susan Cates reported that more than 11,000 single family homes are estimated to be built in BISD during the next ten years. But many of those homes will be purchased by retirees and not by families with children.

Cates also said they are also monitoring the possibility of manufactured home communities being created outside of the Bryan city limits to provide workforce housing.

Click HERE to read and download the demographer's report that was presented at the April 21, 2025 Bryan ISD school board meeting.

This podcast contains comments from the April 24, 2025 College Station city council meeting.

Thursday's (April 25) College Station city council meeting included almost one hour of discussion on how to address housing overoccupancy by implementing parking restrictions.

A council majority agreed to consider an overnight ban on street parking in affected neighborhoods.

The council was given a list of other options that includes issuing permits for street parking and additional restrictions on parking in the front and/or backyards of homes in targeted neighborhoods.

Click HERE to read and download presentation materials from the April 24, 2025 College Station city council meeting.

Jennifer Cain, Capital Projects Director, visits with WTAW's Scott DeLucia about birding, progress on fire station 7, pickleball and futsal courts at Anderson Park, new tennis courts, project budgets, committee studies, and more during her appearance on The Infomaniacs.

State Representative Trey Wharton of Huntsville (R-TX) visits with WTAW's Scott DeLucia about his time on the floor this week, Operation Safe Shield, school vouchers, insurance issues, and more during his appearance on The Infomaniacs.