Austin County News

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...

A 19 year old Austin County Teen was shot in his mother’s home early January 1, 2015.  The Victim’s name was Austin Burger.  He resided with his mother at 16335 Evelyn Ln. Cat Spring.  At the time of the shooting Tiffany and Garen Goebel were present...

On Thursday January 1, 2014 Austin County Commissioner’s Court convened at the Austin County Courthouse to swear in the new Austin County Officials.  First to be sworn in was Austin County Judge Tim Lapham.  He was sworn in by retiring Austin County...

Governor Rick Perry ordered a special election to be held on Tuesday, January 13, 2015, in Texas House of Representatives District No. 13, for the purpose of electing a representative to fill the vacancy in the seat previously held by The Honorable...

AUSTIN - Today at noon, Lois W. Kolkhorst took the oath to become officially sworn in as Senator for District 18. The ceremony took place in the Senate Chamber of the Texas Capitol in front of a packed gallery of over 400 supporters. The oath of...

Lois Kolkhorst will be representing Texas Senate District 18 when the Texas Legislature convenes.  In the overall race, Kolkorst won by a fair margin netting 21,833 out of the 39,200 total votes cast.  The next largest vote taker was Gary Gates with...