A successor has been chosen to fill Stafford Mayor Cecil Willisâ vacated seat on the city council.
 Xavier Herrera defeated Tom Virippan in a special election Saturday to become the cityâs new councilman in Position 5.
Herrera received 546 votes, or 70.61 percent of the vote. Virippan garnered 226 votes, or 29.39Â percent of the vote.
The city released the unofficial election results at 8:20 p.m. Saturday.
 Herrera has been a Stafford MSD board member since 2015 and is the chairman of the cityâs planning and zoning commission. He is also the communications director for Fort Bend County Judge KP George.
Virippan also has a background in education, as a former teacher and principal. In November, he lost his election as the Republican challenger to incumbent State Rep. Ron Reynolds in House District 27.
Water quality technicians for the City of Sugar Land collected water quality samples and transported them to an approved lab for water quality testing. (Photo from Facebook)Â
While temperatures rose above freezing Thursday, officials across the county urged drivers to exercise caution as the National Weather Service issued a hard freeze warning from midnight Friday to 9 a.m.Â
Wind chill temperatures are expected to dip between 15 to as low as 5 degrees in some parts of Southeast Texas.Â
As of 6:19 p.m. Thursday, 99.4 percent of CenterPoint Energy customers had their power restored, leaving 15,813 without electricity.
According to CenterPointâs outage tracker, the areas most affected by outages in Fort Bend County are near 1st Street and Highway 59 in Rosenberg and in the Trammels neighborhood of Missouri City south of Highway 6.Â
Early voting begins Monday for Stafford City Council spot
Roy Kent, Staff writer
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When Cecil Willis was elected mayor of Stafford last year, it created an open seat on the City Council when he was sworn in to office. Now that seat it about to be filled.
Early voting begins Monday is special election to fill the Position 5 seat on Stafford City Council.
Voters have the choice of Tom Virippan and Xavier Herrera to complete a term which ends in May 2023.
Herrera has been a board of trustees member for Stafford Municipal School District since 2015. Since January 2019, Herrera has served as communications director for Fort Bend County Judge KP George.
The Stafford City Council voted 6-0 to make Alice Chen the cityâs new Mayor Pro Tem during a Jan. 20 council meeting, following Don Jonesâ resignation from the position.Â
 Jones read his resignation letter to the council during the meeting, and cited among the reasons for his decision to step down from the Mayor Pro Tem position the length of the term, which was shortened to six months due to a change in the cityâs election cycle brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic. It also postponed the 2020 city council and mayoral elections from May to November, mandated by orders from Texas Gov. Greg Abbott.Â
Back in the mid-seventies I wrote some stuff for an HTV film which included the line: Photographs are just memories, captured on a screen, and the snaps I include in these TRMs undoubtedly prove my point. Here are some of your memories received following last week s pictures. Firstly - re the Milford Fishmarket snap: From Nicky Lovell (via WT online) My dad started as a box runner at 15, and still worked the docks til he was 68. Ann Davies (WT online) Remember going there with my Grampy. Christian April Smart (WT online) Wonder if my grandfather Bobby Whisby is in the photograph.