Commissioners pull three
of four requests by Sheriff
Last week just wasn’t good for Fort Bend Sheriff Milton Wright who requested approval on four agenda requests. Commissioners nixed voting on three of the four requests.
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Hebert says voters could see
May $70 mil bond referendum
Fort Bend County Judge Bob Hebert says he would like to see a bond referendum on the May ballot that, with voter approval, would centralize all the county’s courts in one location.
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Demolition order stands
Repairs on Robinson estate
in Quail Valley in stall pattern
A house on Ramble Creek in Missouri City will soon be demolished, another one that burned in Fondren Park has been demolished by the city and another in Quail Valley may be.
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Stafford Councilman Sachs won’t seek 5th term
Stafford City Councilman Mike Sachs will serve out his fourth term on Stafford City Council and then call it quits.
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Boys and their toys
Sheriff holds equipment hostage
Like a bully in a sandbox when things don’t go his way, Fort Bend Sheriff Milton Wright takes the taxpayer’s equipment and holds it hostage.
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Missouri City house will
soon to meet wrecking ball
The dilapidated house at 3627 Ramble Creek in Missouri City will be demolished soon.
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First steps taken on relocating prison
Over the past 100 years, one of the state’s oldest prisons was located near Sugar Land and a lot has changed. Today the land is far more valuable, and there’s the safety issue of housing inmates near neighborhoods.
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Hebert says mobility is number
one issue according to citizens
State of the County address gives
overview of needs and accomplishments
Fort Bend County Judge Bob Hebert says living’ is good in Fort Bend County—there is a lower than average crime rate, unemployment rates are low, and basically “life is great here—you just can’t get anywhere.”
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Huge fundraising effort launched
for Rosenberg resident, Johnston
A huge fundraising effort and separate blood drive is being planned by friends and supporters of a long time resident and a Rosenberg official who is scheduled to undergo a double kidney removal in February.
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Rosenberg receives Sticks for Kids grant
Only one of 100 cities nationwide to be awarded funds
Rosenberg Parks and Recreation Director Darren McCarthy was pretty pleased when he recently went before city officials with the announcement that his department had received a federal grant to help in recreational programming.
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Rosenberg votes to keep curfew ordinance
A juvenile curfew ordinance will remain in effect in the city of Rosenberg, for at least another three years due to a vote by city council last week.
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TxDOT hearings on Trans-Texas
Corridor set for February 25
Fort Bend County citizens will have the opportunity Feb. 25 to comment on the controversial I-69/Trans-Texas Corridor when the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) hosts a public hearing in Rosenberg on that date.
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Throw momma from the
train and her son... under it!
Last week, a Sugar Land woman reported being assaulted by her boyfriend and his mother.
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 Rezoning that affects eight
FBISD elementary schools opposed
Attendance in new schools in Lexington and Sienna Plantation areas will impact Dulles, E.A. Jones, Lexington Creek, Palmer, Scanlin Oaks and Sienna Crossing elementaries
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City of Stafford considers interim zoning proposals
Stafford put 17 people around a table and asked them to make major decisions about the future of two major corridors in their town but the participants wanted far more time to consider all the possibilities.
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FBISD Supt. Tim Jenney gets raise,
more achievable incentives
Another year on contract extends to January 6, 2012
Fort Bend ISD Superintendent Tim Jenney is now in his second year with the district and got a new contract that gave him a 3.25 percent raise, the same as all administrators received.
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Kyle Janek to quit Texas
Senate in June, not March
District 17 Sen. Kyle Janek, a Republican, announced last week that he would leave the Texas Senate on June 2 because he owes time to his wife and three young sons.
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Sheriff requests $395,000 for contract nurses
Fort Bend County Sheriff Milton Wright has requested an additional $395,000 to fund contract nurses at the Fort Bend County Jail.
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City council, school board,
water district seats available
The candidate packets are ready at Fort Bend County city halls and school district administration offices and filing for election starts on Monday, Feb. 11.
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States across the nation questioning
security of computerized voting machines
Locally, “we are not ready for the
presidential election” says Perez
Press coverage nationwide indicates states are rejecting the type of voting machine now used widely across Texas and Fort Bend County.
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to buy Quail Valley Country Club
One hundred strong Quail Valley study committee
announce findings about club purchase
By the time some Missouri City residents gathered at the city’s community center the evening of Jan. 29, lawyers representing the city had met that day with lawyers representing Renaissance to start the process to buy Quail Valley Country Club.
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Jeff Braun elected to statewide board
Fort Bend County Emergency Management Coordinator, Jeff Braun, has been elected to a leadership position with the Emergency Management Association of Texas.
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Passport Fair set for February 9
Fort Bend County District Clerk, Annie Rebecca Elliott is hosting a Passport Fair on Saturday, February 9, from 8:00 a.m. to 12:00 noon.
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First of seven teens sentenced
for home invasion robbery
Teen with bright future now headed to prison
The first of seven Alief high school teens arrested for a 2007 home invasion robbery in the Sugar Land subdivision of Sugar Mill has been sentenced for his part in the crime.
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