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There were 326 students who participated in the inaugural Grimes County Elections Sticker Contest. Students designed custom stickers for two categories – “Future Voters” and “I Voted.” Awards were presented to the top–10 finalists in each category and to the top-three in each contest. Easton Walkoviak placed first in the “Future Voter” category. He is a fifth grader at Anderson–Shiro Elementary. Brailey Harman earned first place in the “I voted” category. She is a seventh grader at Allen Academy. Winning sticker designs will be used during elections until the next contest in 2026.
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First Baptist Church in Navasota hosted their inaugural chili cookoff, Sept. 14. Award winners include Dustin and Shelby McGee, Best Chili without Beans; Team Magallon, Best Chili with Beans; and Joe and Lauren Puhar, Popular Choice Award. The cookoff benefits the Building on the Foundation Campaign. Judges included Navasota Mayor Bert Miller, Examiner Publisher Ana Cosino and P&Z member Dia Copeland.
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Navasota Police are urging parents to educate their children on the magnitude of making terroristic threats on social media, text message, email etc. after a Navasota High School student was detained and charged with making a terroristic threat.
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Hundreds of people attended the TxDOT public meeting Sept. 21, at the Grimes County Fairgrounds for the Texas 105 widening project from Texas 6 to Texas 249. The project is designed to ease traffic and increase safety on the 6–mile stretch.
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Navasota residents packed city council chambers at the Sept. 23 Regular Meeting again in response to a zoning change application that would allow construction of an AutoZone on the corner of Washington Avenue and N. Post Oak. After a public hearing with 16 comments, 12 against and four in favor, council voted unanimously to deny the application.
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Navasota Police are investigating a Saturday afternoon shooting that injured one on the west side of town.
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Grimes County commissioners approved nearly two dozen contracts for fiscal year 2024-25 at the Sept. 18 Regular Meeting. Included in the lengthy agenda were contracts for firefighting services.
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Grimes County VFW Post 4006 members honored first responders with breakfast Sept. 11. The breakfast commemorates the heroes who responded to the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center in New York and the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia, Sept. 11, 2001, that killed 2,977 people.
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