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Twenty years ago Saturday is a day that changed America forever. Nineteen hijackers overtook four domestic flights and killed around 3,000 people in New York City, Washington D.C.

According to information from Sealy Police Department, Interstate 10 mainlaines are scheduled for closure tonight, Thursday, Sept. 1, at 7:00 p.m., until Friday, Sept. 2, at 5:00 a.m. between Chew and Mlcak Roads.

The purpose of the closure is to remove the Mlcak overpass bridge spanning over IH10.

Buffalo roamed much of the United States in the 1600s and 1700s, ranging from the Rocky Mountains to Pennsylvania and Georgia, and from northern Canada to northern Mexico. Estimated to number between 30 and 50 million in the 1600s, the herds dwindled very rapidly from 1720 through the 1800s.

The San Felipe de Austin State Historic Site recently welcomed a Ramage style recreated printing press to its new permanent home at the log cabin Texas Gazette printing office in the Villa de Austin. Builder and collector John Horn donated the wooden printing press from his personal collection after years of persistent communication from Michael Moore, the Contracted Construction Manager for the Friends of the Texas Historical Commission.

Following Yvonne Johnson’s appointment by Sealy City Council to serve on the Sealy Economic Development Corporation Board of Directors, Katherine Ellis, Secretary of the Sealy EDC administered Ms. Johnson’s official Oath of Office. Kimbra Grigar Hill,

Although the Department of State Health Services (DSHS) had record of nine fewer active cases of COVID-19 to start this week in Austin County compared to the previous week, two more fatalities were reported to bring the total to 41.

Monday, there were an estimated 152 active cases according to DSHS and since the pandemic began, there are 2,249 total confirmed cases and an estimated 2,561 cases have been declared recovered.