As early voting kicks off this week, I want to highlight the upcoming constitutional amendments that Texans will have the opportunity to vote on this November. Every two years, voters decide whether to approve or reject proposed changes to our state’s constitution that have been passed by a two-thirds majority in both chambers of the…
It was a Thursday, and I had just come back from East Montgomery County expecting to make a quick salad, and write up a piece of a new massive D&B style arcade that I found in east county New Caney, but then in my kitchen I got distracted. I saw a flyer from ‘EGGS UP…
It’s been described as a place “where everyone knows your name.” Big Bertha’s Bar and Grill had been a fixture in Walden for 24 years and one month, a place named after a golf club. It was run by a tough naturalized Swedish-Polish immigrant, Krystyna Boyt, self-described as a ‘Polish Princess.’ She knew everyone in…
This week’s Veteran is Eric Chapman, who served in the U.S. Marine Corps from 2005 – 2013. Eric was a Combat Engineer, which is an important position in keeping the infantry, armor, and flying corps on mission. Eric is a West Coast Marine via basic training in San Diego, but went to Camp Lejeune, North…
As the 2026 primary season starts to heat up I’m starting to see some things that disturb me. I know there are factions to every party, and when it comes to Republicans we have ours as well, and that’s fine. I always advocate that if you want someone to vote for you, especially if it’s…
On Thursday, September 25, 2025, Thomas Jefferson Stubbs 2523Conroe Chapter member Eva Rains, traveled to Lufkin, Texas for a funeral and the burial was later in Homer, Texas. After the burial, Mrs. Rains walked thru the Fielder Cemetery looking for headstones belonging to Confederate veterans. Finding many, she only had the one picture made of…
Left to Rt: Bernie Sargent, Marshall Brown, Cindy Dittrich, and Dianne Kebodeaux FOFF BOARD MEMBERS AT “TRAVIS LETTER CEREMONY”, NEXT TO TEXAS HISTORICAL FLAGS PARK!The “Friends of the (Texas) Flags Foundation”, represent the Texas Historical Flag Park of the Texas Revolution, on the hill with the Texian Statue, which is in-between the the Montgomery Main…
The morning of Wednesday, October 8th, will always be a special anniversary in the mind of Sarah Bartholet Gwin, whose family and business had been under fire since July, when a natural gas pipeline company, Blackfin Pipeline, LLC, began construction of a compressor station literally yards from her family’s home furnishings business, located on I-45…
From now on in Conroe, February 24th, will have a new meaning in Montgomery County, for it was on that day in 1836, when the Texian Army at the Alamo garrison was surrounded by the Mexican Army, and greatly outnumbered; one of the most famous letters of all time was penned by Lieutenant Colonel William…
This week’s Veteran is Joe Flores, who served in the U.S. Army from 1944-1946. Joe recently turned 100 years old at the Worthington Manor in Conroe, at a party given by his friends and family. Many of his friends and family came in from as far away from Arizona, Illinois, and Missouri. It was a…