Banner Press Newspaper

11/04/2024

11/04/2024

🌟Unlock Your Potential! Rice Medical Center is hiring passionate individuals to join our team. Explore new positions and help us shape the future of healthcare!🌟

11/04/2024

Our school will be attending a special showing of the RHS production of Mean Girls this Thursday! Letters are going home today.

The show is for students and staff only. Showings for the public are November 8th, 9th, and 10th.

11/04/2024

They support us, now let’s support them!

RHS cheerleaders are selling meal tickets for our upcoming UIL state competition in Fort Worth in January.

Let me know if anybody at your school would like some tickets and I will send to you through the mail!
Thank you for all your support.

11/04/2024

We are getting everything set up to start cooking our delicious stew tomorrow. Can't wait to see yall. If you need tickets, comment here! We will start handing out stew at 5pm tomorrow.

11/03/2024

DISTRICT CHAMPS!! Our Knights fought hard and earned the victory! 🏈🏈

11/03/2024

Congrats to Mr. & Miss Music Casey Straw and Bridget Geisler!! 🎶

Columbus Cardinal Band

11/03/2024

11/02/2024

🏈Halftime Score Update! 🏈

Our Rice Raiders are putting on an impressive show tonight with a halftime score of 22-3 against Van Vleck! Your energy and support from the stands are making all the difference. Let’s keep the momentum going, Raiders family! Stay loud, stay proud, and let’s cheer our team on to victory in the second half.

Go Raiders! 💙

10/30/2024

The Austin County Sheriff's Office would like to welcome Taylor Borjas as Dispatcher. We look forward to working with Taylor as part of our team!

10/30/2024

10/29/2024

Congratulations to our Raider of the Week, chosen by the Social Studies department – Willem Burger! 🎉

Willem, a senior at our school, is the son of Willem and Marisa Burger. During high school, he’s actively involved in Football and Basketball. His favorite class is Audio and Video with Coach Thor. 🎬📽️

Outside of school, Willem enjoys playing guitar and going fishing. 🎸🎣 After graduation, he plans to attend college to become a diesel and industrial technician. His long-term dream is to open a game preserve for licensed and responsible big game hunting and a paintball/laser tag facility for local youth. 🎯🦌

Way to go, Willem! Your dedication and ambitions make us all proud!

10/28/2024

Trick-or-Treat Around the Track is FINALLY here!!!! We can’t wait to see all of you Spooktacular Ghouls & Goblins on Wednesday!!! 🎃👻🎃

10/25/2024

10/25/2024

Can't say "thank you" enough to Walmart Distribution Center for their continuous support of our department and for providing lunch and goodies for our staff today.

10/25/2024

12/02/2020

TRI-COUNTY COVID COUNT SOARS

COVID-19 case counts across the Tri-County region are climbing. The Tri-County region had 263 active cases as of Tuesday evening.

As of Tuesday evening, the Tri-County region had 263 active cases of the novel coronavirus according to local and state health statistics.

12/02/2020

Flatonia EDC okays land purchase to expand park

The Flatonia Economic Development Corporation Board has voted to proceed with the purchase of land to expand McWhirter Park.

FLATONIA — The Flatonia Economic Development Corporation voted without dissent to enter into a contract to purchase 1.37 acres of land at 1107 E. U.S. Highway 90 in Bellville to expand McWhirter Park.

12/02/2020

Tri-County’s first hospice opens

Columbus Oaks Healthcare Community recently opened Cardinal Lane, the Tri-County region's first in-patient hospice facility.

COLUMBUS — Columbus Oaks Healthcare opened the doors to the Tri-County’s first hospice facility shortly before Thanksgiving.

12/02/2020

Tri-County’s Historic dance halls get good funding news

Texas Dance Hall Preservation, Inc. announced Tuesday it had raised more than a quarter-million dollars to help historic dance halls, many of which have struggled during the COVID-19 pandemic. Schneider Hall in Columbus and the Ellinger Hall of the Ellinger Chamber of Commerce were two of the Tri-County dance halls to benefit from the program.

AUSTIN — Thanks to the work of a non-profit dedicated to preserving Texas’ dance halls, dance halls across the Tri-County region including Schneider Hall in Columbus, a hall in Ellinger, and 30 more will be receiving funds to help offset their operating expenses since April.