Parks & Rec earns award for tree give away

   Bay City Parks and Recreation Department announced that the Riverside Park Community Tree Give Away was selected for recognition in the Houston-Galveston Area Council (H-GAC) annual Water WISE Awards Program.

County fire calls July 4-8

   Bay City Volunteer Fire Department:     On July 4, at 8:53 p.m., Bay City Volunteer Fire Department responded to a tree fire at the 800 block of Timberline.     On July 4, at 10:45 p.m., Bay City Volunteer Fire Department responded to a refuse fire at the 800 block of Avenue H.

Bay City airport part of A&M’s record breaking lightning detection system

   Bay City Regional Airport recently learned that it was part of a lightning detection system that recorded the world’s longest single lightning flash on April 29, 2020.     It traveled a distance of 477.2 miles, plus or minus 5 miles, from the southern Texas Gulf Coast to Mississippi.