The Houston Independent Bookstore Crawl is back in 2025 with 25 independent bookstores participating from April 1-30. The setup For those interested, participants will need to pick up a bookstore crawl card from one of the participating bookstores and get a stamp. For each store visited, the participant will get a stamp or a signature…
Conroe City Council approved a new downtown revitalization program aiming to beautify the area during its March 27 meeting. What you need to know The Main Street Program, created in 2022, aimed to accomplish many of the projects within the new revitalization program but struggled to do so, according to a March 26 workshop presentation.…
2025 April 5th Open Garden’s Day2025 Open Gardens at the Montgomery County Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Office and Demonstration GardensTake a stroll through our beautiful gardens: Adaptive, Aquaponics, Bog, Composting, Discovery, Earthkind, Floral, Greenhoues, Herb, Memory, Orchard, Turf, and Vegetables.Master Gardeners will be avilable to guide you and answer any questions. Also, there will be…
Burlington will open a location in Willis later this year, according to a March 24 news release. The new location, located within The Market at Willis shopping center, will feature the company’s reimagined store layout, according to the news release. Burlington offers a variety of clothing and accessories for women, men and children; baby items…
To better care for the mental and physical health of firefighters, a couple from The Woodlands is taking their 1st Response Family Clinic on the road to serve the first responders across more of Texas and beyond. Retired firefighter Jerry Bittner and his wife, Desi, a family nurse practitioner and former paramedic, launched the Conroe 1st…
CONROE, TX — I had the honor of attending a Veterans lunch recently at Fabulous Pho, which is located in the Montgomery Plaza Shopping Center, the same location as Academy Sports and Outdoors in Conroe, with the Vietnamese restaurant located in the nor-nor-west portion of the shopping area. The group of guys are part of…
Yeehaw! The Conroe Noon Lions Club is gearing up to bring ‘True Grit’ to our Club Concession Stand April 4-10. As many of you do not know, the Conroe Noon Lions Club operates the concession stand at the Montgomery County Fair to raise money for our service projects within the community. We have plenty of options…
Rotarians build communities together, helping other groups to achieve more. Rotarians from the Rotary Club of Conroe judged The Dispute Resolution Center of Montgomery County 2025 Conflict Resolution Bookmark Art Contest (BAC) last Tuesday at the Master Gardener’s Building at the Agri-Life Extension office. They reviewed hundreds of uniquely designed book markers from several grade levels to…
Texas gains about 1,500 people each day, according to the Texas Demographic Center. To keep pace with this consistent growth and continue attracting new businesses, state leaders need to invest in water, transportation and electric infrastructure, experts said during a March 28 legislative conference in New Braunfels. “When you have a statistic like that, and…
Lake Conroe Area Republican Women held their February General Meeting at Walden Yacht Club.  As usual, Judge Tracy Gilbert greeted all of us at the door and presented us with a beautiful red rose!  President Molly Adame called the meeting to order after which Justice Kent Chambers opened us in prayer.  Then County Attorney B.D.…
