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The Austin County Fair Association announced it will be hosting the annual Shrimp Boil Friday, July 16, at the AC Fairground and Expo Center. Doors will open at 5:30 p.m.

The Austin County Fair Association congratulates Bellville High School graduate, Hunter Schumann, for winning one of the 2021 Texas Association of Fairs and Events scholarships. The Texas Association of Fairs and Events is an organization comprised of fairs and events throughout the state of Texas and their partner businesses that provide goods and services to them.

Livestock judging camps returned to the Blinn College-Brenham Campus last week. The Blinn College Department of Agricultural Sciences hosted hundreds of junior high and high school students at livestock judging camps this summer on the Brenham Campus.

Austin County readers chose their favorites from dozens of categories to determine the Best of the Best winners. Congratulations to all who received votes in this year’s competition and the race to find next year’s readers’ choice champions begins now!

The Sealy ISD Board of Trustees hosted its most recent regular meeting last Wednesday, June 23, in the Sealy High School cafeteria. A board workshop, budget workshop and public hearing preceded the open meeting where Project Manager Mike Zapalac provided updates on the junior high flood damage and parking lot projects.

After more than a year of battling the COVID-19 pandemic, Austin County Judge Tim Lapham said that area businesses are starting to rebound and business is back to usual at the county courthouse. “Most all of the businesses are (back to usual) as well.

After the regular westbound exit off Interstate 10 to Highway 36 in Sealy was closed over the weekend, the exit to Rexville Road (Exit 718) was condensed with Exit 720 as a detour option back into town. This traffic pattern is scheduled for use for approximately two months as part of the Texas Department of Transportation’s expansion project.

The Texas Department of Transportation announced Tuesday the westbound exit from Interstate 10 to Highway 36 will temporarily close for two months starting Friday night, June 25. Eastbound traffic will not be impacted, TxDOT said.

At Tuesday night’s regular meeting of the Sealy City Council at the W.E. Hill Community Center, a new phone system for City Hall was approved four votes to three. It was at the previous meeting where discussions heated up determining the route the city was going to take.

After being forced to cancel last year’s event due to the pandemic, a three-day summer celebration with music, barbecue, softball and fireworks seems like a perfect way to shake off any remaining effects of social distancing.