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Catholic Daughters of the Americas, Court Queen of Angels #1538 Members, Barbara Grigar and Gladys Jurecek visited Colonial Belle Nursing Home in Sealy, June 21. Due to COVID-19 restrictions, the ladies were not permitted to go inside but they dropped off gifts (lapaghans) for the birthdays and three fruit cream cheese rolls for all to enjoy. There were six birthdays last month.

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 three-day festival returned to Mark A. Chapman Park and locals came out in droves to eat barbecue, listen to live music and celebrate the summer with Sealybration. For more pictures of the event, visit Sealynews.com and follow The Sealy News’ social media pages.

J.B. Martin, conservation agronomist at the Central National Technical Support Center for the USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) in Fort Worth, Texas, and currently acting director of the USDA Southern Plains Climate Hub, has been named the deputy state conservationist for the USDA NRCS in Temple, Texas.

Even though weather surrounded Sealybration weekend with a brief cloud of uncertainty, Sealy Community Foundation President Melanie Willingham said there was going to be no chance this year’s summer festival was going to have to cancel for a second time in a row.

After toiling in education for 28 years, Scott Rogers finally landed his dream job of becoming a superintendent when the Brazos ISD Board of Trustees officially offered him the contract at June’s regular meeting.