Sealy City Council candidate forum
Get to know your candidates running for local election! Austin County voters will be determining school board and city council races in the May 1 general election and The Sealy News has you covered.
April 2021
Sealy School Board candidate forum
Get to know your candidates running for local election! Austin County voters will be determining school board and city council races in the May 1 general election and The Sealy News has you covered.
Wallis City Council candidate forum
Get to know your candidates running for local election! Austin County voters will be determining school board and city council races in the May 1 general election and The Sealy News has you covered. Check out this video featuring Wallis Mayoral candidates Brenda Halfin and Dennis Diggs.
San Felipe City Council forum
Get to know your candidates running for local election! Austin County voters will be determining school board and city council races in the May 1 general election and The Sealy News has you covered.
SURVIVE AND ADVANCE
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The final crop of track and field athletes was whittled down to the tops in Texas following regional championship action across the lone star state last week. Locally, Sealy’s Breanna Brandes (pole vault) and Bellville’s Kirby Marik (high jump) earned second-place finishes at the Region III Championship at Challenger Columbia Stadium in League City last Friday and Saturday.
Osborne, Prause headed to state
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April 17, Sealy High School’s Jackson Osborne and Cody Prause competed at the UIL Region Academics meet. Through two rounds, they competed with some of the best performers in their region and grabbed spots to advance to the State UIL meet. Osborne qualified for state in the poetry category and Prause qualified in the prose category. They beat out hundreds of students across the state to be part of the top 12 performers in their category in the whole state of Texas for Class 4A. CONTRIBUTED PHOTOS
Tiger golf team finishes eighth
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The Sealy Tiger golf team wrapped up its season at the Region III Championship at the Raven Nest Golf Club in Huntsville as the eighth-place team with a high individual finish in 17th overall. Although head coach Cody Carruthers has taken an individual golfer to regionals every year he’s been in Sealy, this year was the first time the Tigers brought a whole team thanks in part to Ethan Doyle’s first-place individual finish at the district championship in Navasota.
18 students inducted into NHS
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Brazos High School inducted 18 new members into the Brazos High School National Honor Society in an April 20 ceremony. Inductees included Meagan Demny, Laura Durrett, Coltin Frayard, Nathalia Garcia (not pictured), Sammy Gonzalez, Yackie Gonzalez, Brayden Hanzelka, Evan Herreth, Makinzy Kneip, Sierra Kovar, Bryan Maldonado, Rory McCarthy, Hallie Pailes, Ashley Perez, Nataly Romero, Caitlyn Snedaker, Joey Townsend, Amanda Walger and Elena Zapalac. CONTRIBUTED PHOTO
VARSITY SPORTS RESULTS & SCHEDULE
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RESULTS Area varsity results starting April 19: SOFTBALL TUESDAY, APRIL 20 • Bellville 10, Sealy 0 FRIDAY, APRIL 23 • East Bernard 13, Brazos 1 BASEBALL TUESDAY, APRIL 20 • Bellville 4, Sealy 2 FRIDAY, APRIL 23 • Bellville 9, El Campo 1 SATURDAY, APRIL 24 • Sealy 4, Wharton 0 TUESDAY, APRIL 27 (SCORES UNAVAILABLE BY PRESS TIME) • Bellville at Royal, 7 p.m. • Sealy at Needville, 7 p.m.
Blinn College wins advertising awards
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The Blinn College District Marketing and Communications Department recently won two 2020 Collegiate Advertising Awards for publications marketing Blinn’s athletics and engineering programs. Blinn received the Gold Award for its 2019-20 Winter/Spring Athletics Recruiting Guide, which previewed the baseball, softball, men’s and women’s basketball, and inaugural men’s and women’s golf seasons.
