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With her classmates looking on, Blinn College District Associate Degree Nursing (ADN) student Hannah Brockett evaluated her patient’s deteriorating vital signs. Wearing a virtual reality (VR) headset instead of surgical gloves, Brockett became one of the first students to use Blinn’s new VR healthcare simulation program.

State Senator Lois W. Kolkhorst, (R-Brenham) has filed a sweeping legislative package aimed at the ongoing influx of illegal immigration in Texas.

The Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo returned full swing in 2023, welcoming more than 2.4 million guests over the 23-day event. This year’s show had some of the best weather in Rodeo history, action-packed RODEOHOUSTON competitions, 10 record-breaking auctions, and an addition of a new star on the Star Trail of Fame.

The Family Land Heritage FLH program is an honorary program sponsored by Texas Department of Agriculture Land Commissioners Office. This program recognizes families for the achievement of maintaining an agricultural enterprise and land ownership for 100 years or more.

In order to keep the county’s school resource officers properly training and ready for any emergency situation, the county’s Special Response Team held a training class for the officers last Monday in the vacant halls of Bellville High School. “You have more Metropolitan Houston growing West now and the bad guys are in our communities now or are coming out to victimize our community and you have to be prepared for that,” said Austin County Sheriff’s office Lt.

The Blinn College District celebrated 140 years of service to its community Monday during its March Board of Trustees meeting. To celebrate Blinn’s 140th anniversary taking place on March 28, the College invited Dr.