Sneak Peek: Miss Madison County Scholarship Pageant 2025

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Staying ahead of the game, the Miss Madison County Scholarship Pageant has announced the date of the 2025 competition with some exciting new changes. This year, the pageant will crown two titleholders in every age division; this change will allow participants an extra chance to earn a crown and, for the older contestants, a chance to advance to Miss Texas 2025.
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Holdridge pleaded guilty to sexual assault

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Wesley Holdridge, age 30, pleaded guilty to sexual assault of a child, a second-degree felony, on Monday, June 24. The investigation started on March 5, 2021, when the Madison County Sheriff’s Office received a report of child sexual abuse; after an investigation by Investigator Chelsea Stanford, it was found that around May 1, 2020, Holdridge sexually assaulted a teenage female under the age of 17 by making her perform oral sex on him.
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Meteor places third

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COLLEGE STATION — Granite Media Partners Inc.’s publications, which includes the Navasota Examiner and Madisonville Meteor Newspapers, dominated the 2023 Texas Better Newspaper Contest.

The Madisonville Meteor earned third place in editorial writing with the article written by editor Richard Sirman, “Cattle Mutilations Leave Investigators Stumped in Madison County” published in the April 20, 2023 edition.

The Navasota Examiner placed first in headline writing, third in the new public notice category and fourth in feature writing.