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Navasota City Manager Brad Stafford has an opportunity to discuss two hot topics Navasota Citizens love to discuss – Walmart Super Center and the city budget.
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Grimes County Commissioners held a Special Meeting Wednesday, June 30, and amended county policy which will allow the Road and Bridge Department to hire seasonal workers to mow tall weeds and grass along county roads. Road and Bridge Engineer Harry Walker brought his request for mowers to the June 16 court but it was tabled pending a rewrite of the policy by Human Resources Director Talitta Coleman and subsequent court approval.
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ANDERSON - Larry Winston Bollin, 27 from Iola, was indicted Wednesday, June 30, by a Grimes County Grand Jury for attemp
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A Navasota man, 35-year old Felipe Sanchez III, lost his life in an early morning single-vehicle accident, Friday July 2. The pre
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A record-setting crowd attended the second-annual Navasota Freedom Festival in downtown Navasota Friday, July 2, to celebrate America’s Independence. See more photos on page 2. Examiner photos by The Examiner crew
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You never get a second chance to make a first impression, and City of Navasota employees take that slogan to heart every Friday morning. That is when you’ll find more than a dozen staff putting Navasota’s best face forward by planting flowers, picking up trash or cutting tree limbs in the downtown area.
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As completion of the Grimes County Justice and Business Center moves into the homestretch, the subject of office furniture continues to be a source of contention for county commissioners. At the June 30 Special meeting, Commissioner Phillip Cox was the dissenting vote on a motion to bring in vendors HBI Office Solutions, Inc. and KI/Office Furniture Solutions and “choose items requested by the department heads and elected officials (DH/EO), eliminate all desk chairs, and cap furniture expenditures at $200,000.” Cox reiterated his comments at the June 29 Workshop Meeting about staying within budget and exploring the purchase of used furniture based on the seeming willingness of DH/EOs to accept used furniture.
Read moreANDERSON –– History comes alive at Fanthorp Inn in Anderson this summer as guides portraying actual historical figures will regale guests with their stories of life and travel in early Texas.
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