WTAW - Interviews

College Station Mayor John Nichols visits with WTAW's Chelsea Reber about possible options for neighborhood parking, two new committees, the Citizens University Program, National Bike Month, a citizens survey, and more during his appearance on The Infomaniacs.

Brazos County State Senator Charles Schwertner visits with WTAW's Chelsea Reber about his bill addressing insurance rate hikes, the creation of a Texas DOGE, increasing the homestead exemption for disabled and older Texans, renaming the Gulf of Mexico, the Texas Women’s Privacy Act, and more during his appearance on The Infomaniacs.

This podcast is a visit with Adam Drake of the Brazos Valley Live Music Association and WTAW's Bill Oliver.

The Brazos Valley Live Music Association (BVLMA) is a new nonprofit organization dedicated to supporting and promoting live music in Bryan, College Station, and surrounding communities.

The association says it aims to foster a vibrant, sustainable live music scene in the heart of Texas through events, advocacy, and artist support.

Spokesman Adam Drake says they want to hear from all performers in all music genres and all venues that are located in the region.

The association's first event, titled "Music in the Moonlight", is taking place the evening of May 15th at Lake Walk in Bryan.

Click HERE to be directed to the BVLMA website.

This podcast contains comments from U.S. agriculture secretary Brooke Rollins and secretary of health and human services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on April 29, 2025 at the Texas A&M AgriLife Phenotyping Greenhouse. The secretaries also visited Texas A&M's Beef Center.

The photo with this podcast shows the secretaries in one of the greenhouses with a faculty member of Texas A&M's department of soil and crop sciences, Dr. Seth Murray.

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."