WTAW - Interviews

Shane Savage talks about the 23rd Annual Kurten 4th of July Fireworks & Fundraiser. Free admission & parking. Giveaways, hay rides, bounce houses, food trucks, and more. Saturday, July 4th, 2026. Gates at 5pm.

Bryan mayor pro-tem James Edge visits with WTAW's Tucker Young and Will Welch on The Infomaniacs July 1, 2026. Most of the conversation is about Bryan's Midtown Park and the yet to be completed movie/bowling/restaurant building.

This podcast contains the quarterly report by Brazos County chief public defender Nathan Wood to county commissioners on June 23, 2026. Brazos County commissioners received an update at their last meeting (June 23) from the public defender's office.  Nathan Wood led off with starting two new specialty divisions, dealing with juvenile offenders and people with mental health issues. Wood also said t...

This podcast contains remarks from Brazos County juvenile services director LInda Ricketson at the June 23, 2026 Brazos County commission meeting. Children staying at Brazos County's juvenile detention center for nearly 20 years have been involved with what is called Art for Life, where the word art is an acronym for Art Reaching Teens (ART).  Juvenile services director Linda Ricketson told county...

This podcast is a visit with the chairman of the Brazos County Historical Society Henry Mayo and WTAW's Bill Oliver. Brazos County's Boonville Heritage Park is the setting Thursday morning (July 2) for an America 250 event.  The chairman of the Brazos County historical commission, Henry Mayo, says the park is one of the sites nationwide to plant a Liberty Tree, a symbol of defiance leading to the...

This podcast contains comments from the June 26, 2026 Bryan city council meeting. A special meeting of the Bryan city council last Friday (June 26) was moved from a conference room to council chambers due to the appearance of 15 BTU solar customers.  Those customers are among 814 affected by a council decision made last month, agreeing with a BTU board recommendation to pay less to solar customers...

This podcast contains comments from the June 25, 2026 College Station city council meeting. The College Station city council receives a semi annual update on capital projects. The report at the June 25th council meeting from capital projects director included a sample of some of the 69 active projects. Click HERE to read and download presentation materials from the June 25, 2026 College Station ci...

This podcast is a visit with Kathy Polzer of the Brazos Valley groundwater conservation district and WTAW's Bill Oliver. The Brazos Valley groundwater conservation district (BVGCD) and Brazos County commission are hosting an education meeting for those interested in learning about water supplies in Brazos and Robertson counties. The "Aquifers 101" gathering is Tuesday (June 30) starting at 6 p.m....

Visiting on WTAW's The Infomaniacs with Tucker Young, city of College Station principal planner Heather Wade reviews the city's first public meeting about the new Harvey Road corridor study and the city's assistant communications director Bobbie Lehrmann previews the city's July 4th event.

For the 23rd time in 24 years, the Brazos County Historical Commission gets a distinguished service award from the Texas Historical Commission. Chairman Henry Mayo accepted the state award from county judge Duane Peters at this week's (June 23) county commission meeting. Burleson, Washington, and Milam counties were among the 62 counties who also received the state award, which is based on local a...

The general manager of the private company that operates the Travis Field complex for the city of Bryan, Travis Triola, and marketing coordinator Brady Bell visit with WTAW's Tucker Young on The Infomaniacs June 25, 2026 about upcoming events.

This podcast contains comments from the June 23, 2026 Brazos County commission meeting. Brazos County commissioners respond to a public speaker's request to do more public awareness about risks associated with the migrating New World Screwworm. The request during Tuesday's meeting (June 23) came from local veterinarian Gina Mosavi. Her message was targeted to the owners of domestic animals to be o...

This podcast contains comments from the June 9, 2026 Bryan city council meeting. Action at the June regular meeting of the Bryan city council included borrowing more than $65 million dollars. More than $36 million is being borrowed for Bryan streets and drainage projects, almost $26 million is going to Bryan's new animal center and Midtown Park projects, and $3 million was borrowed for new fire en...

This podcast is a visit with Brazos County 85th district court judge Kyle Hawthorne and WTAW's Bill Oliver. On the eve of the United States 250th anniversary, 75 people will gather at the Bush Library and Museum Thursday morning (June 25) to become naturalization citizens.  Brazos County district judge Kyle Hawthorne will administer the oath of allegiance as he had done more than 40 times in 12 ye...

This podcast contains comments from the June 23, 2026 Brazos County commission meeting. Brazos County commissioners vote four to one to sell to Burleson County, 286 road signs for $100 that are no longer used by the road and bridge department. Commissioner Fred Brown, who voted no, asked why Brazos County wasn't using the signs. County engineer Prathana Banerji said the signs have been in storage...

College Station mayor John Nichols visits with WTAW's Tucker Young and Will Welch on The Infomaniacs June 24, 2026. Topics includes a review of the first public meeting of the city's future plans along and near Harvey Road between Texas and the freeway and a preview of the upcoming city council continuing discussion of the future development of the Northgate District.

This podcast contains comments from the June 16, 2026 College Station ISD school board meeting. Around 1,500 College Station ISD employees are dealing with a new provider of health insurance. Price was the driving factor in the CSISD school board decision's at their June 16th meeting. Changing to Baylor Scott & White (BSW) starting September 1 was going to save between $87 and $455 dollars a m...

The director of Texas A&M's veterinary emergency team, Dr. Deb Zoran, visits with WTAW's Will Welch and Tucker Young on The Infomaniacs June 24, 2026 to talk about the New World Screwworm.

This podcast contains comments from the June 15, 2026 Bryan ISD school board meeting. Bryan ISD school board members agree to go through a different process to replace mechanical equipment.  Deputy superintendent Brian Merrell's recommendation was unanimously approved at the last board meeting (June 15) to pay for replacing air conditioning chillers at six elementary schools with bond money from 2...

This podcast contains comments from the June 11, 2026 College Station city council meeting. The city of College Station is in the middle of the public comment period about how more than $3.5 million dollars in federal community development grant money will be spent next year. Raney Whitwell of the city's community development office told the city council at their last meeting (June 11) that the mo...

This podcast contains comments from the June 9, 2026 Brazos County commission meeting. A committee appointed at the last Brazos County commission meeting (June 9) has more than 50 people.  After county judge Duane Peters spent more than five minutes reading the names, the initial reaction from commissioner Fred Brown was that this committee, to consider salary appeals by elected officials, was "go...

This podcast contains comments from the June 16, 2026 College Station ISD school board meeting. College Station ISD school board members adopt a budget for the 2026-27 school year which requires taking more than $6 six million dollars out of savings and decreases the property tax rate by almost one cent. CSISD chief financial officer Healther Wilson told board members the budget reflects adding $4...

This podcast contains comments from the June 9, 2026 Bryan city council meeting. The first activity hosted by the new Bryan Youth Sports Association received rave reviews at the June meeting of the Bryan city council meeting.  Councilwoman Marca Ewers-Shurtleff said a tackle football camp drew the maximum registration of 125 fourth through sixth grade students in Bryan ISD. Shurtleff said "And eve...

This podcast contains comments from the June 15, 2026 Bryan ISD school board meeting. Bryan ISD school board members approve the purchase of online monitoring of buses and express no opposition to the administration's plan to schedule the replacement of buses. The cost of a pilot program to track buses, more than $261,000 dollars, will be paid from surplus money in BISD's 2020 bond issue.  BISD's...

This podcast contains comments from the June 11, 2026 College Station city council meeting. The College Station city council agrees with the city manager to not require owners of student rental housing and short term rentals to notify renters about city ordinances.  City manager Bryan Woods promoted at the last council meeting (June 11), the city doing more to inspire owners to voluntarily tell th...