Denise Carreon and Brittanie Hopkins are both hoping to be chosen by Sweeny voters to fill the Position 1 slot on the district's school board being vacated by Connie McAda. 

A long City Council agenda was extended even further thanks to misunderstandings and outside issues on Tuesday. The EDC's industrial road bids were put under new scrutiny following the vote on them last month and softball parents came en masse to speak. 

Sweeny's Position 4 seat will be contested for the first time in years as Kelly Fuller runs against incumbent John Rambo. 

Three men involved in robbing the Brazoria branch of the First National Bank of Lake Jackson in 2018 were sentenced Wednesday after pleading guilty last year.

In this week's updates, Sweeny sees additional setbacks in their water softener saga, Luby's is still feeding Lake Jackson residents and Freeport's infrastructure projects are seeing progress. 

Aggies gathered together at the West Columbia Heritage Hall on Friday for the annual Aggie Muster with songs, poems and remembrances of Aggies who've passed. 

Voting has officially begun in Brazoria County and while many candidates are up for offices this year in the May election, one bit of business that can sometimes fall behind in the public’s consciousness can be ballot questions.

For the second year in a row, Sweeny resident Agatha Sanchez set up a candidate forum to help local residents suss out the best people for the job of running their school district and city government.

Brazoria County Head Start’s 39th annual banquet was a galloping affair, with awards and scholarships handed out to people who help them help the community.

A Sweeny man is recovering after being shot while the city of Sweeny is looking to increase safety for school children. Plus, a former Clute resident took top honors for her baking skills. 

The Texas General Land Office has put out a list of projects it would like to see come to fruition that they believe would help alleviate the aftereffects of a huge weather event, like a hurricane. A project to study how sand dunes are eroded and formed is expected to make those flood mediation efforts more efficient. 

Experts found that the city’s water softeners, which had been doing double duty clearing up the hard water and helping eliminate manganese and iron, were not working properly and were actually exacerbating a problem that has plagued residents for months. The city elected to rehab the two softeners to provide some relief to residents. 

Despite their lack of agricultural background, four Sweeny students met the challenge of the Houston Rodeo's theme to promote farming and ranching and responded with some inspired works of art.

In a week chock full of meetings, Freeport and Sweeny will both be holding special meetings on Monday. Sweeny ISD will talk about the possible purchase of property, Surfside Beach will discuss water rates, the Commissioner's Court will address road signage, Angleton will talk platting for additional subdivision requests, Brazoria will continue their attempt to curb substandard structures with a public hearing, the Freeport EDC will discuss pending litigation, West Columbia will hold public hearings before their meeting and Richwood will consider an amendment to their budget for electrical work. 

The Sweeny candidate forum will be at 6 p.m. Monday at First Methodist Church and will provide residents with a chance to hear from representatives of the city, the school district and the hospital district, and then candidates for office will introduce themselves and take questions.

Recently discovered problems with water softeners are adding to the issue with red and brown tinted water in Sweeny, according to officials. 

A Brazoria man was sentenced following a one-day bench trial where he was found guilty of the sexual exploitation of a child and distribution of child pornography stemming from multiple incidents in which he secretly filmed a 13-year-old relative using a bathroom. 

An update on Rachel Preter's condition after she was struck going to school in West Columbia, the SPCA adds to its totals and Kacey Roman left Freeport to testify before state legislators. 

Edwardo Luera, a 49-year-old Brazoria man, was pronounced dead at Sweeny Community Hospital after he was transported from the scene of an accident involving his Hyundai in Wild Peach early Tuesday.