Lone Star College System board members voted to lower the college system’s property tax rate for fiscal year 2025-56 during the board’s Oct. 2 meeting. The action taken The board unanimously approved a FY 2025-26 tax rate of $0.1060 per $100 valuation, down from last year’s rate of $0.1076. Trustee Rebecca Broussard was absent from…
Veteran Builders reopened this fall after having slowed down in 2020, owner and veteran Kevin Bowers confirmed. The business offers construction services including roofing, remodeling and repairs. “My best talent is finding solutions,” Bowers said. “I love what I do and I like when we are done with a project, the homeowner is ecstatic with…
It’s officially October, which means it’s time to sport the color pink. National Breast Cancer Awareness Month runs Oct. 1-31 to honor those affected by breast cancer and raise awareness about the disease. Communities across Greater Houston show up each year with an abundance of events in support, many of which aim to raise money…
Editor’s note: This story has been updated to include additional events. It’s officially October, which means it’s time to sport the color pink. National Breast Cancer Awareness Month runs Oct. 1-31 to honor those affected by breast cancer and raise awareness about the disease. Communities across Greater Houston show up each year with an abundance…
MONTGOMERY, TX — The 129 year old Historic Copeland Cemetery, located off of McCaleb Road, on Copelan Chapel Road (correct spelling, you’d think after over 100 years, that someone would have bothered to correct the misspelling by now), was recently heralded by the Montgomery County Historical Commission as historic this past Saturday, seeing as nearly…
MONTGOMERY COUNTY, TX — It was a beautiful day for an outing this past Sunday for the Love Heals Youth kids and their supporters, a wonderful afternoon to listen to wonderful music and visit with foster care families and members of the Love Heals Youth (LHY) team, an organization dedicated to counseling foster care youth…
CONROE, TX — It was a packed house at the First Methodist Church in Conroe this past Saturday, as the Conroe Symphony Orchestra (CSO) began their 28th Season, 2025-2026, with everyone awaiting the music that once graced 19th century royal courts and grand Viennese ballrooms with magical nights of wondrous music and incredible dancing that…
MONTGOMERY, TX — September 10th changed everything. Charlie Kirk’s assassination on the afternoon prior to America’s Second day of Great Mourning, came as a great shock, that a man only armed with words can be brutally gunned down in public. And not only that, people, many with multiple degrees, who would openly celebrate his death…
RenFest runs every weekend from October 11 through November 30 at the fairgrounds in Todd Mission, west of Montgomery County.
The University of Houston has been awarded a $1 million grant from the nonprofit Houston Endowment to analyze how school districts are implementing various teacher certification pathways—including teacher residency programs and grow-your-own models—with the goal of improving student achievement and bolstering teacher recruitment and retention. The two-year project is intended to generate data, research and…