Austin County News

County Judge Tim Lapham took questions from the public in this Q&A session in the Austin County News Online Studio. Questions were submitted to our email address and on the notification on our Facebook Page. Judge Lapham gave information on how many...

Texas Senator Lois Kolkhorst did a remote interview with us to give an update on COVID-19 and the economic impact it is having on Senate District 18 and Texas. She gave great information for local businesses and families who are struggling with the...

Imagine this situation:  An officer knocks on your door, you answer it and he hands you a letter.  When you open it, the first thing that catches your attention is the statement:  You have been sued!  Would you know what to do in this situation? ...

Although the vast majority of Austin’s First Colonists were families (parent and child), at least 68 of the 300 names were single men arriving in partnerships that would allow them more land according to the Empresario’s contract. Originally the...

Austin County is about to lose one of its finest public servants.  Philip Shackelford will be leaving to pursue his career as an assistant professor and extension specialist for Texas A&M University.  Philip recently received his PhD from Texas...

Austin County has its first Miracle League in our community. The Miracle League is a national organization bringing special needs baseball to neighborhoods across the US. Thanks to a partnership between the parents of two special needs boys in our...

We previously published the Austin County Sheriff's Office press release on the runaway problem with the Five Oaks Facility in New Ulm (See HERE for Release).  The facility's representatives then testified before the Austin County Commissioners Court...

On February 17 of this month, the Austin County Sheriff Office released their statement concerning the  Five Oaks Achievement Center in New Ulm (read full press release HERE). Monday's Commissioners Court Meeting at the Courthouse saw a few of the...

Many of the iconic “Old 300” settlers – Stephen F. Austin’s first colonists into Texas – proved to be entertaining frontier folks, and even their background stories are interesting (fact and fiction melted together of course in the Texas Way)...

The preliminary election results of the special election as of 9 PM show Lieghton Schubert as the newly elected Texas House Representative of District 13.  100% of the counties in the district have been reported but, please note that these results...

On February 17, 2015 at 7:40 a.m., Sheriff Brandes reported that Austin County Sheriff’s Office Deputies responded to a report that four residents of the Five Oaks Achievement Center, located at Pechacek Road in New Ulm, had run away from that...

Today is the day for voters to cast their vote for the person they want to represent them in the Texas House of Representatives.  The position has been left vacant since Lois W. Kolkhorst won her position in the Texas Senate taking Glenn Hegar’s...

It's now down to two candidates, Carolyn Cerny Bilski and Leighton Schubert are running for the vacated Texas House District 13 position previously held by Lois W. Kolkhorst.  They met at Tony's February 5, 2015 for a question and answer forum.  The...

Bellville, TX – With our increase in new residents to our beautiful county, I say welcome. I would like to inform our taxpayers of a bill that was filed in the Texas House of Representatives by Rep. McClendon (D) - San Antonio. Her bill, HB392, would...

Marcus Pena, Austin County's current tax assessor collector, released data on the costs associated with holding county elections.  "Our taxpayers have a right to know how tax dollars are spent to run elections" he stated in his email with the...

The election results have not been certified by the state yet but, the votes are all in and there will be a run-off between Carolyn Cerny Bilski and Leighton Schubert.  Voter turnout for the election was very low.  There were 4,472 votes cast in...

Fox News 26 in Houston as well as ABC 13 are reporting that the Waller County Sheriff Department has issued a felony arrest warrant for Nilsson Daniel Vargas Tuesday on a charge of sexual assault of a child. The incident occurred in Waller County...

Early Voting took place from Jan. 5th, 2015 to Jan. 9, 2015.  If you didn't vote for your candidate then Today is the day to cast your vote in the special election for Texas House 13, Lois Kolkorst's seat.  Kolkorst's seat was left vacant when she...

The candidates running in the special election for Texas House District 13 to take Lois Kolkhorsts old seat, met again in Bellville last night at the Austin County Fairgrounds historic hall.  All the candidates, except Carolyn Bilski who already made...

If you do much shopping at the JC Penney in Brenham, TX you're going to have to find another store to shop starting in April.  The retail chain will be closing their Brenham location as well as 38 other locations across the nation.Sarah...

The candidates running for Texas House District No. 13 met this evening at the Brenham National Bank located at 2211 S. Day Street at 5:45 for their first Q&A session.  The room was filled and local people were able to ask questions of the...