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As the Texas Renaissance Festival (TRF) wrapped up the year following the 46th season of the festival, several staffing changes were made filling multiple vacancies within the TRF office. Patrick Coveney has been promoted to General Manager and will be working directly with owner George Coulam.

Cast Iron Winery took advantage of the landscape that made for a picturesque entrance to the operation earlier in the week. Courtesy photos Olivia Trevino took advantage of the snow to make some memories at Briarwood Estates in Sealy earlier this week.

If your family ever gets stuck in a dinner routine rut, it can feel like you’re eating the same recipes over and over again. However, this fresh and unique recipe for Cuban Chicken with Salsa Fresca might inspire you to think outside the culinary box and give your family members the satisfactory flavor they desire at dinnertime.

The Multi-County New Landowner Education program is a series of 8 informational meetings, seminars, and field days designed to make new landowners in Austin, Colorado, Fayette, & Washington Counties aware of what types of agricultural enterprises are best for their property. Participants in the program will hear from experts in a variety of fields in agriculture about best management practices that can be implemented on their own property. This innovative program assists new landowners in understanding the concepts of rural living. Participants in the program are given exposure to ideas on raising livestock and horses, plant identification, fence building, applying pesticides, soil testing, stock pond management, pond construction, fruit and nut production, rain water harvesting, turf management, and much more. The program also serves as a way for new residents of the four counties to network and meet new people in their communities, find out what can be done on their land, what operations can be successful, and possibly what opportunities they have to serve the community.

In the future, when the world reflects on 2020, the word “Zoom” will no doubt come to mind. Though Zoom first launched its video conferencing software in 2013, that software did not become a fabric of many people’s daily lives until 2020, when a global pandemic was declared and the world suddenly shifted to remote working and virtual learning en masse.

Despite the freezing temperatures over the weekend, the Austin County Firefighters Association hosted an annual training session at Heitmann Memorial Training Facility in Bellville where volunteer firefighters from Austin, Colorado and Waller County went through training exercises to learn changing strategies and tactics as well as technology of fire service. Sealy Fire Chief Kenny Willingham said six Sealy firefighters attended the training.