Ten months into 2021, the economy still has not fully recovered from the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. But things continue to look up.

Beginning Monday, Angleton ISD will be lifting the mask mandate that has been in place since early September.

Sirens screamed and lights flashed throughout Angleton, but instead of responding to emergencies, the city’s first responders were en route to put smiles on the faces of the people they serve during National Night Out.

Not quite three weeks after Hurricane Nicholas, debris pickup is coming along in several parts of Brazoria County. In others, it has yet to begin.

Typically held in the fall as a block party style event, National Night Out serves as a way for community members to get to know the officers who protect and serve them throughout the year.

While the COVID-19 pandemic is ongoing, there is another concern: a mental health pandemic, Ezreal Garcia said.

The sky was overcast and the air was heavy with moisture, rich with the scent of plants and earth Thursday morning as a dozen gardeners and volunteers toted plants around the Brazoria Environmental Education Station, preparing for the Brazoria County Master Gardeners’ fall plant sale today.

Commissioners voted to lower the tax rate again this year to about 38.65 cents per $100 of taxable value, and adopted a budget which gives an additional $3.43 million to personnel, including approved new positions, for the 2021-22 fiscal year.

No one was injured in an early Friday morning house fire in the 1200 block of Chevy Chase Drive which may have been set deliberately.

A day after another school district approved a remote learning program, the Angleton ISD Board of Trustees voted to adopt the district’s own remote learning resolution.

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The absence of sound coming out of the mouths of the Angleton High School choir students might have been unusual when they met for class Monday, but they were the perfect note for the news they had just received.

After being arrested last month as a suspect in the hit-and-run death of a pedestrian, 30-year-old Joseph Lewis has been indicted by a Brazoria County grand jury.

The list of 412 first responders killed in the Sept. 11 attacks powered four local firefighters as they climbed, in full firefighting gear, the 110 floors that made up the World Trade Center buildings on the 20th anniversary of the attacks.

Traylor Lenz has taught at Angleton High School for more than 20 years, and in that time, he’s touched many lives, including that of Reanna Santos.

ANGLETON — Parents have had the option for their children to wear masks on Angleton ISD campuses since the beginning of the school year. Now parents will have the option for their kids not to.

A Sweeny woman has been charged with recklessly causing serious bodily injury to a child after one of two children she was watching ended up with third-degree burns covering 17 percent of his body.

The Angleton Fire Department’s cadet program offers kids from 14 to 19 the chance to see what it’s really like to be a member of the fire department, shadowing the department on calls, participating in training exercises and even helping out on scenes from time to time.

Angleton ISD will offer a remote conference learning program for students who are out due to COVID-19 beginning Wednesday. This will only be available for students who have tested positive for or are quarantining due to COVID. The district may also utilize the remote conferencing option in situations where classes or grade levels will need to be closed due to COVID.

A motorcycle rider died after his vehicle left the roadway Friday afternoon. It was one of three serious crashed in central Brazoria County across two days.

Beyond the usefulness of an updated layout, creature comforts of sorts were added to make the 12-hour shifts more comfortable.

Amid Brazoria County’s investigation into allegations of irregularity in the jury selection process under former District Clerk Rhonda Barchak, a group of activists hosted a press conference outside the courthouse on Monday, calling for an outside federal investigation and justice for family members.

As of Tuesday afternoon, the district does not anticipate the days needing to be made up at the end of the year and extracurricular activities at the high school and junior high campuses will continue as planned.

Bringing along about 125 vendors to various markets across the greater Houston area, Schwob is proud of the way the event has grown and adapts to each stop along the way.