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North Zulch volleyball players Katelyn Crocker and Cheyanne Wallin earned All-State selections in 1A from the Texas Sports Writers Association (TXSWA) for their performances during the 2020 season. Crocker was named Second Team Libero while Wallin was named a Third Team Outside Hitter, both extremely prestigious selections that put the Lady Bulldog athletes among the best in the state.

Would you like to host a neighborhood informational meeting? Are you willing to reach out to your DH neighbors to help get better roads? Do you have specific questions or concerns? As movement towards correcting long overdue Darrell Hall roadways in Grimes County progress, we will make wide use of social media and anticipate neighborhood meetings to take place for question-and-answer sessions when it is safe to do so, and that estimated costs to individual property owners will be made available as the process advances with direct mailings of all pertinent information and releases to each DH landowner as the project develops. Please share your questions and concerns and offer your support as we press forward with each phase of the proposed project on our Facebook page, www.facebook.com/ FixOurDarrellHallRoad and with Commissioner Mallett at Chad.Mallett@ grimescountytexas.gov.

CAMPBELL ATKINS An individual traveling eastbound on Highway 21 at a high rate of speed veered off the road Wednesday and dislodged a street sign on South Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd. There were no injuries as a result of the crash.

Texas House and Senate leaders appear to agree on their proposed budgets. Next, they just have to figure out how to cut $7.2 Senate Finance Chair Jane Nelson, R-Flower Mound, worked with Lt.

COURTESY PHOTO Madisonville Elementary Students of the Month for January are (back row, from left) Hadley Scott, Graycen Mitchell, Kevin Lopez, (front, from left) Kaylie Brooks, Guadalupe Buenrostro, Christopher Adams and Brynlee Garrett. (Not pictured: Kalithain Eldridge)

The Madison County Commissioner’s Court approved contingency funds to purchase 10 new body cameras for the Sheriff’s Office’s deputies during their bi-weekly meeting Monday. The department’s 10 deputies have already been wearing body cameras but will now receive upgraded versions from Safety Vision to enhance their function.