Mark your calendars and save the date so you can come to Sugar Land Rotary’s ShrimpFest 2011 on Saturday, September 10, beginning at – 5:00 p.m at the cool and comfortable, air-conditioned Fluor Building complex in Sugar Land on Highway 6. Remember, ShrimpFest starts at 5:00 p.m. and the food will be served until 7:30 [...]
Season ticket seat “draft” will begin September With less than eight months remaining until opening day in April 2012, the Sugar Land Skeeters has announced an update on ticket sales at StarTex Power Field. “Now that steel has been erected at StarTex Power Field and the concrete seating bowl is well underway, we are ready [...]
By LeaAnne Klentzman An Oklahoma fugitive who had given Federal Agents the slip for nearly a week was arrested by a Fort Bend Sheriff’s deputy after a Richmond area woman called in a suspicious person report. Charles Allan Dyer was arrested last Thursday at 8:02 a.m., after an extensive manhunt conducted by numerous law enforcement [...]
Money intended as health care supplement due to cut backs Elsa Maxey Budget cuts are tough and reports indicate they are continuing to take place. There’s one approach, employed by the Lamar Consolidated Independent School District (LCISD), that perhaps may soften the cut-back blow. After a four month review that started in May about how [...]
By Elsa Maxey Used to be you would arrive at the Rosenberg DMV (Department of Motor Vehicles), a/k/a Texas Department of Public Safety, on 5505 Avenue North, to renew your driver’s license and stand inside the building in line until it was your turn. A resident called it “standing in a snake-y line.” The set-up [...]
By LeaAnne Klentzman Narcotics officers busted three dope houses and arrested five in connection with a hydroponic marijuana growing operation in northeast For Bend County. After an investigation by a multi-agency task force a search warrant was executed on a home located at 20707 Shifting Sand Lane in the Lakemont subdivision, said sheriff‘s spokesperson Bob [...]
Meet and greet friends added bonus By Elsa Maxey The word has been spreading about a Farmers Market about to be open in Sugar Land that will operate for over two months through December 10. The Farmers Market at Imperial will be at Highway 90 at Brooks Street, and held every Saturday from 9 a.m. [...]
PROUD “Phone/Fax” HOTLINE “OUT-OF-ORDER”. A “new” machine will arrive Tuesday, 8/30/11. Email works. (QVPROUD@aol.com) WATER NEEDED FOR WILDLIFE. If possible, please keep a bird bath filled with fresh water. NEW PARK & RIDE. 38-minute bus ride to Texas Medical Center/transfers available to downtown Houston. Buses equipped with reclining seats, reading lights, spacious storage. One-way $3.25/roundtrip [...]
Share your love of reading with other book lovers at one of the book clubs that meet monthly at Fort Bend County Libraries’ Sugar Land Branch Library, 550 Eldridge. New members are always welcome. Members of the Sugar Land Book Break meet on the second Thursday of the month, beginning at 1:00 pm, in the [...]
The FBISD Board of Trustees named Nancy Porter as the district’s new Chief Communications Officer with an effective start date of November 11 upon the retirement of Mary Ann Simpson. Porter will oversee the Community Relations and Partnerships Department and will be responsible for providing leadership, direction and execution of major district communication programs, events [...]
