‘Tis the season for graduation and the numbers don’t lie – Fort Bend Independent School District (FBISD) is a leader in the region for its high school graduation rate of close to 92 percent, and now the district has its sights set on boosting college readiness by teaming up with Houston Community College Southwest (HCC [...]
Members of Frost Bank’s Fort Bend County A-Team volunteered at the first annual Our Community Salutes Fort Bend/Legacy of Freedom Program at Constellation Field. The event honored new military recruits from Fort Bend County. Frost Bank volunteers worked the registration table checking in new recruits and their guests. The weather was perfect and patriotism ran [...]
1st Game – Wednesday 8:00 PM, 5/29 at Val-Tex Field, The Club @ New Territory. Opponent: East Bernard All-Stars. Final score: 5-3 WSL over EB. 2nd Game – Thursday 8:00 PM, 5/30 at Val-Tex Field, The Club @ New Territory. Opponent: Lamar American All-Stars. Final score: 10-2 WSL over LA. 3rd Game (Area 4 Championship) [...]
A Dulles Band reunion for the classes of 1969-1976 honoring Mr. and Mrs. James Larson is planned for June 22. If you were in band during The Larson Years please come on out for a day of some good ole’ fun! We will have entertainment for everyone so bring the kids and grandkids! The day [...]
The Stephen F. Austin High School Navy Junior ROTC received notification that it has been awarded the 2012-2013 Distinguished Unit Award with Academic Honors by the United States Navy for outstanding performance during the past school year. Of the 57 Navy Junior Officer Training Corps Programs within the state of Texas, Stephen F. Austin was [...]
Over 5,000 will graduate from FBISD The 2013 Fort Bend ISD graduation this year will have over 5,000 students graduating from its 11 high schools. This is the first year that Ridge Point High School, headed by Principal Tammy Edwards, will have a graduating class. Ridge Point opened in 2010, and serves portions of Missouri [...]
The girls in Troop 28157 from Rainbow Stars Service Unit recently marked a major milestone with the successful completion of their Girl Scout Silver Award—the highest achievement a Girl Scout Cadette can receive. To earn this award, a girl must dedicate herself to completing a Take Action project that addresses a need in her community [...]
Gifted/Talented (GT) students Krish Advani of Commonwealth Elementary School and Isabella Marino of Cornerstone Elementary School have been awarded Texas Association of Gifted and Talented (TAGT) scholarships to attend summer programs. They are among 34 students across the state and the only two in Fort Bend ISD selected as 2013 TAGT Summer Scholars. The TAGT [...]
Hunters Glen Elementary School students were among those to get a first-hand look at the Houston Museum of Natural Science at Sugar Land’s new exhibit, The Zula Patrol: Mission Weather. Employees from Fluor Corporation, the corporate sponsor of the exhibit, invited the students to tour the exhibit during a live news broadcast with KHOU’s (Channel [...]
Ambassador Girl Scout Shama Tajani of New Territory (Rainbow Stars Service Unit-Troop 721) completed her Girl Scout Gold Award – the highest achievement a Girl Scout can earn, symbolizing outstanding accomplishments in the areas of leadership, community service and advocacy. The Girl Scout Gold Award involves more than a year of work including, a minimum [...]
