This Week's Headlines

Local May 11 election results tallied

Brantly retires after 43 years at Stuchbery

Area resident struck by lightning

Purse stolen from church parking lot

Public meeting on city lot sizes set

Campaign under way to prevent release of man charged in 1995 Dickson murder

Suspicious man reported near Thompson

Weber honors Ortiz

PTK opens doors for San Jacinto College students

Banks receives TDCJ volunteer award

Melillo collects pennies for patients

Garza receives promotion

2013-2014 Dobie Cheerleaders selected

Pre-K camps offered at UH-Clear Lake Kids U registration

Bay Area Houston Teen Idol to launch in July

Dobie names 5th 6-weeks honor rolls

Summer scholarships offered to middle, high school students

Annual cookoff winners awarded

Brook’s Raygen Smith snags state bronze; Gay ends career with thrill

Lutheran South girls place second at TAPPS 4A state track

Nguyen’s Army team headed to Austin Regional

San Jac softball players earn all conference, regional honors

Dobie faculty/staff/student tennis May 21

Escobar leads Lady Horns’ all-district soccer picks

JFD volleyball’s Munoz picks Hill College

 

Local Libraries

Bracewell City Library
Located at 9002 Kingspoint, Bracewell is inside the Beltway east of Blackhawk. Included in its collection are books-on-tape, compact discs, magazines, large-print books, children's books-on-tape and books in Spanish.

The library offers a variety of services including telephone and in-house reference information, a public access catalog and children's storytimes.

Bracewell provides an outside bookdrop as well as telephone renewal at 832-Bracewell Library sketch393-2580. Self-service facilities available include word processors and a copy machine. The library catalog is available through www.Houstonlibrary.org.

For hours and special events visit Bracewell on the web at www.houstonlibrary.org/bracewell
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For information, call the library at 832-393-2580.

Harris County Parker Williams Library
The spacious 20,000-square-foot Harris County Parker Williams Branch Public Library at Scarsdale and Beamer opened in 1993. Regular seating for reading and study accommodates 125.There are three meetings rooms that may be reserved by the public. Two of the rooms seat 25 and one room seats 50.  These rooms are located by the County Clerk’s office, which is located across the parking lot.

The online catalog is user friendly and can be accessed, along with various databases, from home computers at www.hcpl.net.

Books may be transferred from other branches at no charge. The library features a large Vietnamese collection as well as some Spanish titles and a large selection of DVD’s and CD’s.

The library offers English as a second language classes as well as training for volunteer tutors interested in teaching adults basic literacy or ESL.

Free computer classes are offered monthly. Storytimes are every Wednesday for preschoolers and Thursday mornings for toddlers. Vietnamese story and learning times are presented Saturdays. During the summer, the library sponsors a summer reading program and presents special programs.

Harris County library cards are free to Texas residents who provide proof of their current address. Library hours are Monday from 1 to 9 p.m., Wednesday from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m., Thursday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., Friday from 1 to 6 p.m. and Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. The library is closed on Tuesdays and Sundays. For information, call 281-484-2036.