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The Texas Railroad Commission has suspended nearly two dozen permits that allow oil and gas companies to inject saltwater into the ground, which regulators say has contributed to increased earthquakes of greater magnitude in West Texas.
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Samuel Walker Houston was born a slave near the end of the Civil War on President Lincoln’s birthdate, Feb. 12, 1864, at Huntsville to Joshua and Sylvester Baker Houston. They were slaves of the Republic of Texas’s first president, Sam Houston.
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Navasota Public Library will host a film screening of “Who Said You Can’t: African American Women in Science” Saturday, Feb. 24, at 9:30 a.m.
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Tenaska Frontier Partners, Ltd., owner of Tenaska Frontier Generating Station, an 830-megawatt natural gas-fueled power plant near Shiro is accepting applications for the Tenaska College Scholarship Program. Students graduating from Grimes County high schools are eligible to apply. The program will award five $2,500 scholarships.
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The Christmas Bird Count, a yearly census photographing a variety of birds in Grimes County was held Dec. 12, 2023.
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Mason Urban, an eight-year-old in the third grade at John C. Webb Elementary School in Navasota, killed his first deer while hunting with his dad, Matt Urban, on a family lease in Gause.
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Grimes County residents photographed a sign of God’s promise after storms subsided Monday afternoon, Jan. 8.
Genesis 9:13-16 NIV: (13) “I set My rainbow in the cloud, and it shall be for the sign of the covenant between Me and the earth. (14) It shall be, when I bring a cloud over the earth, that the rainbow shall be seen in the cloud; (15) and I will remember My covenant which is between Me and you and every living creature of all flesh; the waters shall never again become a flood to destroy all flesh. (16) The rainbow shall be in the cloud, and I will look on it to remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is on the earth."
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The Christmas and NewYear festivities have come and gone. The reason for Christmas never leaves but unfortunately the tree, decorations, wreaths and other special items at some point need to be carefully wrapped and stored.
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