Montgomery ISD’s board of trustees approved a $500 end-of-year recognition stipend for all district employees at its May 13 board meeting, according to a May 13 MISD blog post. The additional compensation will show up on employees’ June 5 paycheck, according to the district. “I want to commend our MISD school board for this intentional…
Following an internal restructuring, Montgomery County Sheriff Wesley Doolittle told commissioners May 13 that department efficiency, backlogs and call response times have improved following concerns over lengthy 911 and nonemergency call response times. Two-minute impact During Commissioners Court, Doolittle presented an overall update on his first 100 days in office, including how he restructured the…
Conroe officials move toward pausing citywide development due to water capacity issues.
Traffic flow changes will be in place this summer at George Bush Intercontinental Airport as part of the Terminal B Transformation Program, Houston Airport System officials announced in a May 12 news release. What’s changing? Beginning May 14, North Terminal Road will be closed to the traveling public from John F. Kennedy Boulevard to west…
On an investigation adventure for Texas History, the COLLINGS FAMILY traveled to the Tip of Texas searching for the Marker of the Last Battle of the Civil War: “Battle of Palmito Ranch”, WHERE TEXAS CONFEDERATES WON! But the War ended a Month before and the armies had not received the news, which does not diminish…
Building a Resilient Retirement Portfolio in 2025 By Kent Pendleton• Building a Resilient Retirement Portfolio in 2025 Retirees and those nearing retirement face a familiar dilemma: how to generate dependable income without missing out when markets rally. After years of near-zero yields, fixed-income returns have finally climbed to levels worth considering—and cash isn’t quite as…
Selling Your Home? By Megan Stultz• Want a quick calculation on how much you can expect to profit from selling your home? Just take the selling price and subtract 10% to account for expenses. For example, say you sell for $300,000. You can expect to pay roughly $30,000 leaving your profit around $270,000 (before your…
Last Wednesday, May 7th evening, I was invited to a special Ludwig van Beethoven themed evening in a neighborhood near The Houstonian, the famous resort east of Memorial Park, in Houston. I was given an address to a street worthy of an English Lord, to a mansion with landscaping that would impress Frederick Law Olmsted…
Mary Jeanette Bartram McCormick Mary Jeanette Bartram McCormick, December 14, 1939 – May 9, 2025 After many health struggles, Mary Jeanette Bartram McCormick passed away on May 9, 2025 at the age of 85. She was born on December 14, 1939 in Little Rock, Arkansas and was the daughter of John Lucas Bartram and Mary…
A 187 year old Plat of Montgomery, or ‘New’ Town of Montgomery ‘On the Hill’ drawn by an early Lake Creek Settlement pioneer was recently rediscovered by a former MISD Texas History teacher, Brenda Beaven, and member of the Montgomery Historical Society. The 1838 document, originally signed by William Watters ‘W.W.’ Shepperd, who founded the…
