College Station’s Mayor Missing Thursday’s Council Meeting Because He Is On His Honeymoon – WTAW

Congratulatory messages on the marquees of downtown Bryan’s Palace and Queen theaters, April 7 2021.

College Station mayor Karl Mooney will be absent from Thursday’s council meeting because he is on his honeymoon.

Mooney, who lost his wife Laura in October 2019, got married on Wednesday according to Bryan mayor Andrew Nelson.

Mooney was congratulated by College Station council members when explained his absence at the end of March 25th council meeting.

On WTAW’s The Infomaniacs, Mooney says his new wife, who he met in church, was his daughter’s fourth grade teacher and he taught her youngest son at Texas A&M.

Nelson said on The Infomaniacs that congratulatory messages were placed in downtown Bryan on the marquees of the Queen and Palace theaters. And the downtown Bryan lights were changed to red Wednesday evening in recognition of the city of College Station’s primary color.

Click below for comments from the March 25, 2021 College Station city council meeting, Karl Mooney’s March 31, 2021 visit on The Infomaniacs, and Andrew Nelson’s April 7, 2021 visit on The Infomaniacs.

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