Wesley Holdridge, who had a warrant out for his arrest in Madison County for second degree sexual assault, was arrested and taken into custody by the College Station Police Department May 5. As of Monday, Holdridge remained in custody at the Brazos County Jail in Bryan.

Prioritize. It’s like organize.

The North Zulch Bulldogs baseball team competed in a playoff matchup for the first time in their program’s brief history last week and defeated Wells in the 1A Bi-District showdown in Trinity by a score of 17-5. The Bulldogs will next travel to Crockett to take on Crockett Friday.

According to recent news reports, only about 26% of Grimes County residents and only about 20% of Madison County residents have received the full COVID-19 vaccination, thus taking advantage of this important step in ending our long night of discontent.

Happy Mother’s Day! This weekend I hope that you will all take a moment to thank the hardworking mothers and grandmothers in your life. Whether carpooling a big group home from a late Friday night football game or working late nights to pay for that one perfect Christmas gift you just had to have, we all have our mothers to thank for stopping at nothing to make us happy. So do something special to make for a calm and relaxing day because, as we all know: “if mama ain’t happy, ain’t nobody happy!”

I continue to urge readers to keep on Madison County Museum’s Facebook page, which I update daily with photos from our history. Some of you don’t participate on Facebook, I hated you missing a post from this past week, so I’m sharing it next.

On July 8, 1990 in Houston, Texas, a handsome baby boy entered the land of the living to Mr. Eddie L. Mason, Jr. and Audurial Gilbert-James. He was named Austin Pierre’ Mason. Austin attended and graduated High School from Madisonville CISD in Madisonville, Texas in 2008. After graduating High School, Austin attended Blinn College in Brenham, Texas to study Kinesiology. Austin worked at Bucee’s for a year and then went to work in the oilfield business for EZ Construction and worked there for three years. He later went on to work at O’Reilly’s in Madisonville until his death.