WTAW - Interviews

This podcast contains comments from the July 9, 2025 Bryan city council meeting. Tuesday's Bryan city council meeting was the first opportunity for members to speak about a regular public speaker, Patrick Giammalva, who passed away on June 21st. Giammalva spoke at council meetings for eight years, which began before any current member took office. He also ran for Bryan mayor in 2019 and Bryan coun...

This podcast is from the Bryan/College Station chamber of commerce leadership luncheon on July 9, 2025. Chamber president Glen Brewer introduces the luncheon's featured speaker, Ben Keating. The luncheon, sponsored by the Leadership Brazos alumni association, is the kickoff for those who are interested in applying for the next class of the Leadership Brazos program. Applications from the chamber a...

This podcast contains comments from the Bryan/College Station chamber of commerce leadership luncheon on July 9, 2025. Chamber president Glen Brewer is the emcee, and he introduces the following: The presentation of the Royce Hickman leadership scholarship (which includes the photo attached to this podcast) A Leadership Brazos program overview An overview of the Leadership Brazos Alumni Associatio...

Lacey Lively, Bryan's Communications & Marketing Director, visits with WTAW's Scott DeLucia about the Brazos Valley Veterans Memorial Board, upcoming city events, and more during her appearance on The Infomaniacs.

This podcast is College Station mayor John Nichols visit with Scott DeLucia on WTAW's The Infomaniacs July 9, 2025. Topics include the proposed city budget for the 2026 fiscal year, taxes, general fund money, future projects, a possible agreement with the Brazos Valley Bombers, and new baseball fields at Veterans Park.

This podcast contains comments from the June 26, 2025 College Station city council meeting. Assistant public works director Pete Caler said this was the first time that there was no local residency requirement to bid on this contract. That resulted in the city receiving six proposals. The provider for the last ten years, Bryan based Green Teams, submitted a bid that was $216,000 dollars higher.  G...

This podcast contains comments from the July 8, 2025 Bryan city council meeting. Councilwoman and attorney Marca Ewers-Shurtleff questioned deputy city manager Joey Dunn and the owner of the Ventura Sports Group, Mark Schuster. The Bryan city council unanimously approves a rental agreement for Travis Field baseball stadium where another summer collegiate baseball team will start playing next year....

This podcast contains comments from the July 7, 2025 College Station city council meeting. The proposed College Station city budget for the 2026 fiscal year was presented to city council members at a special meeting on Monday (July 7). Click HERE to read and download a summary of the FY 26 budget from the city of College Station. Click HERE to read and download the 185 page FY 26 budget document f...

Multiple fire departments were south of Kurten Monday night (July 7) at the scene of a fire at a crude oil off loading terminal.  Brazos County emergency management coordinator Jason Ware said there was an evacuation of a half mile around the site of fires in the cab of a semi and four crude oil tanks next to the semi. Ware said firefighters kept a full load of 6,700 gallons of crude oil from gett...

This podcast contains comments from the July 8, 2025 Brazos County commission meeting. Retired state representative Kyle Kacal of College Station was sworn in Tuesday (July 8) as acting Brazos County Judge. After 85th district court judge Kyle Hawthorne administered two oaths, Kacal took his seat and said "what an honor that has been bestowed on me by Judge (Duane) Peters and his family. I want to...

Amber Mastrobattista, Pride Community Center Board Member, visits with WTAW's Chelsea Reber about upcoming workshops hosted by Aggie Allies and Pride Community Center's upcoming fundraising gala.

This podcast contains comments from the July 1, 2025 Brazos County commission meeting. Brazos County commissioners hear about upcoming changes in how elections are conducted. Elections administrator Trudy Hancock reviewed at this week's meeting (July 1), the impact of state lawmakers enacting Senate Bill 2753, which she says "will fundamentally change the timeline that Texas has used since 1987."...

This podcast contains comments during the June 26, 2025 College Station city council from parks and recreation director Kelsey Heiden. The College Station city council receives annual review of operations in the city's parks and recreation department. Director Kelsey Heiden says they recently finished an inspection of all 56 parks in College Station. She said data is being collected for the depart...

This podcast contains comments from the July 1, 2025 Brazos County commission meeting. In 2017, new air conditioning was part of Brazos County's conversion of the former tax office building across the street from the courthouse to the new elections office and employee health clinic. This week (July 1), county commissioners approved spending $230,000 dollars to replace equipment and inspect the bui...

Lina Adams of the Destination Bryan tourism office visits with WTAW's Bill Oliver about downtown Bryan's First Friday activities being rescheduled to July 11th due to the July 4th holiday. She also previews the July 4th fireworks and drone show on the RELLIS campus where the agency and WTAW are co-sponsors.

Meagan Brown, Division Manager of Customer Solutions at BTU, visits with WTAW’s Scott DeLucia about Lake Bryan, power consumption numbers, takeaways from the legislative session, power sources, future challenges, BTU's 2026 budget, and more during her appearance on The Infomaniacs.

This podcast contains comments from the June 26, 2025 College Station city council meeting. The College Station city council approves rezoning land at Old Wellborn Road and Graham Road North for the future construction of an outdoor entertainment venue. Documents provided by the developer shows what is nicknamed "The Range" will have a driving range, eight pickleball courts and a courtyard with 12...

This podcast contains comments from the June 17, 2025 Brazos County commission meeting. Brazos County commissioners have entered a dispute among property owners in a subdivision west of Easterwood Airport. Twice during June, homeowners in Oak Hills were able to stop the owner of an adjacent RV park from replatting property that he owns in the subdivision. During the commission's June 17th meeting,...

Bryan Mayor Bobby Gutierrez visits with WTAW's Scott DeLucia about the recent legislative session, water rights, using local companies, Texas A&M's new chancellor, upcoming events, and more during his appearance on The Infomaniacs.

This podcast contains comments from the June 26, 2025 College Station city council meeting. The process of drilling more water wells continues in Bryan and College Station. The College Station city council at its last meeting (June 26) awarded a $3.5 million dollar contract for the next phase of drilling three more water wells. This portion of an overall $69 million dollar project involves clearin...

This podcast contains comments from the June 26, 2025 Texas board of criminal justice meeting in Bryan. June's meeting of the state prison board in Bryan included a presentation from the parole division of the Texas department of criminal justice. Bryan district parole officer Shawn Noorlun introduced parolee Matthew Kelley of Caldwell. The chairman of the state prison board, Eric Nichols of Austi...

This podcast is a visit with the organizer of the Kurten fireworks show and community fundraiser Shane Savage and WTAW's Bill Oliver. The 22nd annual Kurten fourth of July fireworks show and fundraiser is the second year a Bryan area businessowner is in charge of the event. Shane Savage says this year, they invested in higher grade fireworks and more activities that precede the fireworks show. Las...

This podcast contains comments from the June 26, 2025 Texas board of criminal justice meeting that was held in Bryan. The board controlling the state prison system held its June meeting in Bryan. Action items included moving ahead with adding air conditioning 12,000 inmate beds at ten prisons. The list includes $8.4 million dollars for air conditioning inmate cells at the Luther Unit in Grimes Cou...

This podcast contains comments from the June 26, 2025 College Station city council meeting. College Station city council members are told that state law does not allow pet ashes in city cemetery columbariums. The update during the council's June 26th meeting came two weeks after a woman asked the council to reinterpret the city ordinance. On June 14th, Lisa Burton wanted to place in her mother's c...

This podcast contains comments from interim Brazos County Judge and retired state representative Kyle Kacal, visiting with WTAW's Bill Oliver on June 29, 2025. Brazos County judge Duane Peters, who will miss his fifth consecutive meeting Tuesday (July 1) due to undisclosed health issues, has appointed someone to serve in his absence. Getting the call last Saturday (June 28) was retired state repre...